Pikwanagan

Pikwàkanagàn, a name meaning “hilly place,” lies beside Golden Lake and the Bonnechere River in Algonquin country. Hills surround the lake, whose waters flow into the Bonnechere and onward to the Ottawa River. The Kinouchebiriniouek, or “Pike River people,” were an Algonquin group associated with the Bonnechere watershed. Their neighbours included other Anishinaabe-speaking peoples along the Madawaska and the great river known as Kitchissippi.