Kokokachi

Kokokachi lies along the upper Saint-Maurice, within the forest homeland of the Atikamekw. The name, also written Coucoucache, comes from a word for the owl. One account links it to a hill whose shape recalled the bird; another tells of a battle in which the victors imitated its call. A lake on the river bore the same name, and by 1823 the Hudson's Bay Company maintained a trading post on its shore.