Picanoc

The Picanoc River loops through the wooded hills west of the Gatineau before joining that river on its way to the Ottawa. Its name has been traced to an Indigenous word for the walnut tree, whose wood was valued for making bows. This country lay within the lands of Algonquin people, who hunted and trapped in the Gatineau watershed. The Gatineau itself was a route south to summer gatherings on the Ottawa River and at Lake of Two Mountains.