St Maurice River
One of the tributaries of the St. Lawrence, rises
in the height of land near the head waters of the Nottaway, and falls
into the St. Lawrence at Three Rivers, after a course of 325 miles.
During the seventeenth century it was much infested by Iroquois; and the
French were constantly at war with them in its neighbourhood. It was
first seen by Cartier in 1535, and named by him the Riviere du Fouez, or
Riviere du Foix. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Named De Fouez by Jacques Cartier, and
Three Rivers by Champlain, and known to the Indians as the Metaberoutin,
52. =Bib.=: Lovell, Gazetteer of Canada.