Wigwomadensis

Wigwomadensis rises above the plain east of the Richelieu River, a steep-sided hill clothed in hardwood forest. Its Abenaki name describes a small mountain shaped like a dwelling. Part of the Wabanaki homeland of Ndakina, the mountain stands apart from the surrounding lowlands and contains a lake among its heights. French seigneurial grants around the mountain began at the end of the seventeenth century, and settlers later cleared its lower slopes for fields and orchards.