page_title: Harricana River
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Harricana River / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph, Harricanaw River at Amos, Quebec, QC, 1916 (?), Wm. Notman &amp; Son, Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process - 20 x 25 cm Français&#160;: Photographie, La rivière Harricana à Amos, QC, 1916 (?), Wm. Notman &amp; Son, Plaque sèche à la gélatine, 20 x 25 cm
context_page_description: The Harricana River is a river in western Quebec and northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is 533 kilometres long, has a drainage area of 29,300 square kilometres, and has a mean discharge of 570 m³/s. While 80% of its drainage area is in Quebec, the river flows for a short distance through Ontario before it ends in Hannah Bay off James Bay.
  Because of its undeveloped nature, easy upstream access, and the possibility to paddle to and take out at Moosonee, the Harricana River is popular for canoeing trips to James Bay.
context_section_description: The Harricana was first used by the Algonquins as a river route.
  As a tributary of the James bay, and thus of the Hudson Bay, the Harricana River and its basin were part of Rupert's Land, de facto property of the Hudson's Bay Company by exclusive charter of 1670. But not until 1801, Alexander MacKenzie mapped the entire route of the river for the first time and identified it by name Harricanaw. In 1835, the map of Bradford called it Harricana. The Rupert's Land Act 1868 transferred the river and its basin to Canada and was officially annexed to the Province of Quebec in 1898. Thereafter colonization and settlement on the upper Harricana began in earnest.
  In 1906, Henry O' Sullivan explored the shores of Harricana and in 1908, the first camps were established on its banks at the rapids. These were provisioning camps for the transcontinental railroad construction. A few years later, in 1910, the first colonists arrive and found the town of Amos at the place where the railroad crosses the river.
caption: Log driving on the Harricana at Amos, circa 1916.
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