Lake Pipmuacan

Lake Pipmuacan lies in the forested interior north of the St. Lawrence, in the country of the Innu. The lake and its tributaries appear among Indigenous places recorded on maps made by the missionary Pierre-Michel Laure in the eighteenth century. According to a tradition reported by missionaries, its name recalled a battle between the Innu and the Iroquois on a mountain overlooking the water. The word has also been associated with the arrow, a tool of both hunting and war.