Skip to main content
Go back

The Departure

Indigenous people are sitting in five canoes filled with belongings on the river

Archives du Séminaire de Trois-Rivières, Marcel Quirion Collection, 0676-0350a).

A group of Indigenous people prepare to set out in canoes for their winter settlement in 1921. This nomadic lifestyle lasted until the 1950s when the Atikamekw were forced to adopt a sedentary way of life.