Masters of the Kitchissippi (Ottawa River) highway, the Algonquin bands toll-gated the great fur route between Montreal and the upper lakes from their island villages.
Devastated by the fur wars and dispossessed by lumbering, the Algonquin endure as ten First Nations across Ontario and Quebec, still pursuing a vast unceded land claim across the Ottawa watershed.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Algonquin (Omàmiwininiwak) — the shape you scrub through changes in 500 · 1603 · 1613 · 1701 · 1900.
The pays d'en haut fur-trade world the Algonquin of the Ottawa River commanded (broad regional context).
The broad history of the Algonquin and their fur-route lands (broad context).