Quyon

Quyon lies near the meeting of the Quyon and Ottawa rivers. The Ottawa waterway connected the St Lawrence valley with the continental interior, and Algonquin communities traveled, fished, hunted and exchanged goods throughout the river system long before European colonial establishments. Canoes and portages made it a major route around rapids and between watersheds.

French missionaries and fur traders entered a region already connected by Indigenous relationships. Under British rule, the timber trade grew in the Ottawa valley, bringing new demands on the forests and waterways.