Nagatinong

Nagatinong is a name recorded for the Gatineau River, which flows south from the forested interior to meet the Ottawa. Algonquin families hunted and trapped along its waters and travelled downriver to summer gatherings on the Ottawa and at Lake of Two Mountains. In the seventeenth century, warfare in the Ottawa Valley threatened these communities; some withdrew from the main river toward the headwaters of its tributaries. The Gatineau remained part of the network of waterways linking their hunting grounds to the great river.