Dépôt-Échouani, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Dépôt-Échouani is an unorganized territory in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It is the smallest and northern-most of the five unorganized territories in the La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality
. Its territory surrounds Échouani Lake and stretches along the western banks of the upper Gatineau River
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The territory is named after the Échouani Depot, a former logging
camp of the Canadian International Paper Company
near the confluence of the Chouart and Gatineau Rivers, abandoned since 1962. The name is known since the nineteenth century and several variants have been used on maps and plans: Eshwaham (1873), Eskwahani (1924), Eshwahani (1926), Échouani (1933), as well as Eshawan and Askwahani (dates unknown). The exact origin and significance of this name is unknown, but one possibility is that the word comes from Echoam, a tributary of the Gatineau, and this in turn is a derivative of echohamok, which is from the Algonquin
language probably meaning "to prepare to leave by water".
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is a Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield. It is named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983.It consists of two cities, fifteen...
. Its territory surrounds Échouani Lake and stretches along the western banks of the upper Gatineau River
Gatineau River
The Gatineau River is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec...
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The territory is named after the Échouani Depot, a former logging
Logging
Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks.In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard...
camp of the Canadian International Paper Company
Canadian International Paper Company
The Canadian International Paper Company was a Montreal-based forest products company, a former subsidiary of International Paper. It was originally formed as the St. Maurice Lumber Company in 1919 but was renamed in 1925...
near the confluence of the Chouart and Gatineau Rivers, abandoned since 1962. The name is known since the nineteenth century and several variants have been used on maps and plans: Eshwaham (1873), Eskwahani (1924), Eshwahani (1926), Échouani (1933), as well as Eshawan and Askwahani (dates unknown). The exact origin and significance of this name is unknown, but one possibility is that the word comes from Echoam, a tributary of the Gatineau, and this in turn is a derivative of echohamok, which is from the Algonquin
Algonquin language
Algonquin is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nations of Quebec and Ontario...
language probably meaning "to prepare to leave by water".
Demographics
Population:- Population in 2006: 0
- Population in 2001: 0
- Population in 1996: 0
- Population in 1991: 0