Tapani

Tapani lies in the lake and forest highlands of the upper Laurentians, north of the Ottawa valley. The Lièvre River flows south from these highlands for 330 kilometres to the Ottawa River at Masson-Angers. Before European contact, the Weskarini, an Algonquin people, lived near the Lièvre. Atikamekw families from the north gathered on the lakes near Manawan, where the Manouane River has its source, and used the nearby country as winter hunting grounds.