Poigan

Poigan is a lake in the forested uplands of the upper Gatineau country. The Gens de Terre River widens into Poigan and Little Poigan as it makes its way toward the Gatineau basin, passing through a land of many lakes and low hills. Poigan is an Algonquin name for a pipe or calumet, a word also given to a nearby bay and waterfall. The upper waters of the Gatineau, Ottawa and Saint-Maurice lay within the territory of Indigenous people known to French travellers as the Gens de Terre.