Lake Saint-Pierre

Lake Saint-Pierre is a broad, shallow widening of the Saint Lawrence, fringed by wetlands and fed by rivers from both shores. Its upstream end is broken into an archipelago of islands, while the open water is rich in fish and visited by migrating birds. The Abenaki call the lake Nebesek, “at the lake”. Samuel de Champlain reached it on Saint Peter's Day in 1603; by 1609 he used the name Lac Saint-Pierre and remarked on the abundance of its fish.