Shipshaw

The Shipshaw flows south through the wooded country north of the Saguenay, carrying the waters of Lake Onatchiway towards the larger river. Its Innu name is commonly interpreted as the “enclosed river”, a fitting description of a watercourse winding through a confined valley. River routes and portages in this country led into the interior; the trading post at Chicoutimi became a place of supply for the fur trade beyond them. Innu hunters knew the forests and lakes upstream long before the arrival of the traders.