Refuge du Trappeur
The place
Refuge du Trappeur in the Outaouais, Val-des-Monts/Buckingham area (Gatineau Park, 15 km from the Gatineau basin, Quebec, Canada), at 265 m elevation, on the southern Laurentian section of the Canadian Shield. Part of the continuous Quebec Outaouais cluster (batches 250-371). A historic trapper's refuge run by the NCC, the National Capital Commission (Gatineau Park, 361 km², established 1938, uniquely managed by the NCC as a federal park + the Gatineau River, 386 km, a tributary of the Ottawa River + Ottawa, population 990,000, the federal capital + the neo-Gothic Parliament, 1859-1927, chosen by Queen Victoria in 1857 as a compromise between Ontario and Quebec + the heritage of the Anishinabeg Algonquin people (an Algonquian people, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, present for 1,500 years, speaking Anishinaabemowin + the Sacred Fire ceremony, an ancestral tradition + William Commanda, 1913-2011, spiritual leader of Kitigan Zibi, who promoted reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and Canadians, the Three Fires treaty).
The setting
Outaouais, Val-des-Monts/Buckingham, Gatineau Park, Gatineau basin, QC, Canada, 265 m, southern Laurentians on the Canadian Shield; continuous cluster batches 250-371; trapper's refuge, NCC, Gatineau Park 361 km² established 1938, uniquely federal + Gatineau River 386 km, tributary of the Ottawa + Ottawa, population 990,000, federal capital + neo-Gothic Parliament 1859-1927, Victoria 1857, ON-QC compromise; Anishinabeg Algonquin, Kitigan Zibi, 1,500 years, Anishinaabemowin + Sacred Fire ceremony, ancestral + William Commanda 1913-2011, spiritual leader of Kitigan Zibi, Three Fires treaty.
