Betsiamites

Betsiamites moreover known as Pessamit, or Bersimis, is a First Nations reserve and Innu community within the Canadian province of Quebec, positioned approximately 50 kilometres southwest from Baie-Comeau along the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River on the mouth of the Betsiamites River. It is throughout the river at once north of Rimouski, Quebec. It belongs to the Pessamit Innu Band.The reserve includes the communities of Betsiamites and Papinachois.

Indigenous people had lived or visited the net web page for masses of years preceding to arrival of Europeans. Early within the 17th century, Samuel de Champlain stated the presence of an Innu village at the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence that he diagnosed as Sauvages Bersiamiste on his map of 1632. During the French Era, a buying and promoting placed up turned into hooked up on the mouth of the Betsiamites River called Pointe-des-Bersimites by using Gilles Hocquart in 1733.

During that equal duration, severa Jesuit missionaries evangelized and transformed the Innu that visited the ious trading posts along the coast. In 1924, the band council authorised the Government of Quebec to assemble the provincial highway across the reserve, and in 1955, the local road between the village and the motorway became built.