ALL IT TAKES IS A WILLINGNESS TO REPEATEDLY CHECK RAPIDS AT DIFFERENT WATER LEVELS AND THEN GO FOR IT WHEN THE DAY IS RIGHT The two most substantial tributaries to the St. Lawrence River collectively drain 228,000 km2 of terrain. Individually these river systems are full of history, ancient hunting and fishing territory, trade and travel routes, culture, exploration, large-scale industry, colonialism, and the highest high-quality wave per cumec density on the planet.
The Ottawa River system, including Petawawa, Coulounge, Gatineau, and Rouge rivers, and the Saguenay River system, including the Mistassini, Mistassibi, Ashuapmuchuan, Lac St-Jean, Grande et Petite Descharge, and Saguenay rivers, flows through the ancestral lands of the Algonquin (Ottawa) and Nitassinan (Lac-St-Jean region). As Europeans found their way to Canadian shores, the landscape's natural features became exports…