We will see that the Abenaki used Sherbrooke only as a crossing point. The remains of their camp show that they stayed there a few weeks per year. It was essentially to stock up on all kinds of game meat they brought back to their villages along the river. There were also some Iroquois incursions, but no settlement. The legend of Menas’en tells this epic.

Michel Harnois is the General Manager of the Société d’histoire de Sherbrooke.

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