Nottaway river

The river Nottaway is a river of the Quebec, Canada.

Nottaway, with the River Broadback and River Rupert, had initially been considered to build stoppings developed within the framework of the Projet of the Bay-James.

Geography

One indicates under the name of Nottaway the lower course, resulting from the Lac Matagami and a 225 km length, a river which takes its source in the Lac Mégiscane. The unit forms a 776 km long river running out through many lakes. On the way towards the North-West, Nottaway, since the lake Matagami, creates the lakes Soscumica and Dusaux, collects water of several rivers - in particular the Kitchigama - and finishes its race in bay of Rupert, at the southernmost end of the Baie James, in the west of Broadback and Rupert. Its basin of drainage is of 65800 km ² and has an average of discharge of 1190 m ³ /s.

Principal affluents

River Beautiful
River Kitchigama
River of Iroquois
River Waswanipi

History

Toponymy

Nottaway derives from nadowe, word which means snake and which the tribes algonquines used to indicate or describe their enemies, in particular the Iroquois. Moreover the Cris call this river Natuweu Nipi, river of the foreign Indians and the word Iroquois, in dialect mistassin, says Nottaweou. The Lemoine father, as for him, quite simply translated Nottaway by river of Iroquois. The presence of specific Iroquois in this area, to nowadays identify a river tributary of Nottaway and a fall, finds its explanation in the rather remote history. With the XVIIe century, indeed, Iroquois invaded the territory algonquin located close to the James bay, by borrowing the river which will be known later under the name of Nottaway.

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