Okaisipi

Okai Sipi, the walleye river in Algonquin, is another name for the Lièvre, which flows through the Laurentian forests to the Ottawa. Along this river hunters sought beaver, bear, otter and mink, while its waters offered a route of exchange between people of the interior and the Ottawa Valley. The Weskarini, one of the Algonquin groups known to the French as the Petite Nation, lived in the country of the Lièvre, Rouge and Petite Nation rivers.