The River
The Tenàgàdino Zibi/Gatineau River starts at the Baskatong Reservoir and winds through the communities of Kitigan Zibi, Maniwaki, Gracefield, Low, Wakefield, Chelsea and Cantley, Quebec.
It joins the Ottawa River at the City of Gatineau. The River is 386 km long, has eight watersheds with 50 streams flowing into it, and is home to 472 species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Until very recently, it was considered one of the cleanest rivers in Quebec The River is a culturally and historically significant waterway for the Algonquin Anishinābeg people. Before contact they hunted and trapped in the area and used the River as their main thoroughfare.
A river has the right to flow, to exist. To allow fish to survive. It has a right to be clean.
