A thousand years ago...
A thousand years ago...
More than a thousand years ago, this immense region was the hunting and fishing territory of nomadic Algonquin tribes who had their camps on the banks of the Rouge and Ouareau rivers.
With the arrival of the first settlers, they gradually disappeared from the region and by 1850 few descendants of these great tribes could be found. They had been guides for early explorers and surveyors. Their presence is evoked nowadays in the Rawdon’s regional landscape, by names like Ouareau, Achigan, Matawin and Mascouche.
Thus began the history of Rawdon.