9500 to 8000 BCE: Palaeo-Indian Period
Small groups of Palaeo-Indian hunters spread northward into the southern Great Lakes basin, colonizing land recently released from the waning ice sheet. These earliest inhabitants followed a semi-nomadic round of activities, travelling long distances from one seasonal campsite to another. Although no Early Palaeo-Indian sites are known in the Little Bonnechere area, a small site recently discovered in the Madawaska Valley near Barry's Bay, is presently interpreted as Late Palaeo-Indian. Located just west of Round Lake, this find suggests that Aboriginal peoples may have arrived in the area 10 500 years ago.
BCE: Before Common Era