1615 to 1900 CE: Historic Period
By the time of European contact at the beginning of the 1600s, Algonquins had been well established throughout the Ottawa Valley for centuries, if not millennia.
Direct descendants of the late Pre-contact Woodland peoples, these groups continued to follow a semi-nomadic, seasonal round of activities, including hunting, fishing and trapping at Round Lake, Golden Lake and the numerous tributaries draining into the Ottawa River.
