The Portageur monument, designed by Joseph Dickner and produced by Jean-Marc de Courval, was erected by the Commission of national monuments in 1975. This monument refers to the Portage trail, a historical road of waterways and dirt roads.

For millennia, Amerindians travelled between the Bay of Fundy and the St. Lawrence River by canoeing on Lake Témiscouata and the Madawaska River or, more often, on the Saint-François River and Lake Pohénégamook.

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