Matane

Matane stands at the mouth of its river on the south shore of the St. Lawrence. Mi'kmaq people traded furs here with merchants from La Rochelle, and Samuel de Champlain described a river entrance that vessels could use at high water. In 1672 the intendant Jean Talon granted the seigneury on both sides of the river to Mathieu D'Amours; settlements followed. A century later, records of the seigneur Donald McKinnon still listed Indigenous people among those trading and incurring debts at Matane.