History
BP - before present.
There are archaeological traces of pre-history in the park reserve in the form of tools which have been located.
- Early Pre contact (11,000 to 7500 BP)
- Middle Pre contact (7500 to 2000 BP)
- Late Pre contact (2000 to 200 BP)
- Post Contact or Historic (200 BP to Present).
The Rocky or Woods Cree would be found using this area during the 17th to 19th centuries.
At Waskesiu Lake was an early Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post between 1886 and 1893.
In the early 20th century the industries of fishing and logging were carried out in this boreal forested area. The large 1919 forest fire eliminated the logging industry.
The park was the subject of a short film in 2011's National Parks Project, directed by Stéphane LaFleur and scored by Andre Ethier, Mathieu Charbonneau and Rebecca Foon.
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