The Algonquins of Dumoine River during the nineteenth century
This article focuses on the existence of an Aboriginal band, the one of Dumoine River basically described in the anthropological writings of Frank G. Speck in 1915. During his fieldwork, Speck reports that the Dumoine River’s band splintered in the late nineteenth century, and its members had likely joined the Natives of the Coulonge River. The purpose of this research is to identify the families of Dumoine River and establish that they continued to frequent the Outaouais territory. To demonstrate this I have used demographic data from the oral tradition collected by Speck along with archival sources, the civil register and official censuses of the Outaouais region.