Steemtravel: Mattawa Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Every year when we make our way up North for the Camp season, we pass through a beautiful hidden mountain town known as Mattawa Ontario. The town it’s self is pretty small but it’s personality and character is quite the opposite. Driving down the Main Street there are old hardware stores, gift shops and outfitters and in front of every store, are wood carvings of historical figures and Indigenous elders.

The history of Mattawa goes back hundreds of years and the area was of great importance to the first European fur traders, as it was located along the water route that coureurs des bois and voyageurs would take from Montréal to the western frontier (Lake Superior country) to collect furs. It was said that canoes travelling west up the Ottawa river turned left at “the Forks” (the mouth of the Mattawa) to enter the “Petite Rivière”, before making their way to Lake Nipissing.

Here are some recent pictures of Mattawa

Picture Taken Along The Mattawa River

Mattawa Main-street at Sunset

Images Source: routechamplain.ca