Loigan Sibo

Loigan Sibo, “the river that shows the way” in Abenaki, winds from the Laurentian uplands to the Saint Lawrence. Known in French as the L'Assomption River, it takes a long and twisting course through wooded country before reaching the great river below Montréal. Indigenous nations travelled this waterway before the arrival of Europeans, and its junction with other rivers became a place contested in the fur trade. French records mention the river by its later name in the seventeenth century.