Lake of Two Mountains

The Lake of Two Mountains is a widening of the Ottawa River near its confluence with the Saint Lawrence, west of the island of Montréal. Its shores and channels lie on a route used by Indigenous travellers between the St. Lawrence Valley and the interior. In 1721 Sulpician missionaries established a settlement on the lake where Mohawk, Algonquin and Nipissing people came together. The Algonquin and Nipissing families continued to spend much of the year hunting far from the village, returning with their furs to trade.