{"id":13256,"date":"2019-12-10T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/listings\/la-route-de-mattawa-plaque-historique\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:47:12","slug":"la-route-de-mattawa-plaque-historique","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/listings\/la-route-de-mattawa-plaque-historique\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mattawa Route Historical Plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14519 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Parks_Canada_logo-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Parks_Canada_logo-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Parks_Canada_logo-1024x489.png 1024w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Parks_Canada_logo-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Parks_Canada_logo-450x215.png 450w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Parks_Canada_logo.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When west-bound voyageurs left the Ottawa here at <strong>Mattawa<\/strong>, &#8220;the forks,&#8221; they faced 11 portages in the next 64 km. The Mattawa, or Petite-Rivi\u00e8re, was a key link in the historic canoe route between Montreal and the upper Great Lakes and the Northwest, for its headwaters are separated from Lake Nipissing and the Lake Huron drainage only by the La Vase portages.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14151 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mattawa_Parc_low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mattawa_Parc_low.jpg 600w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mattawa_Parc_low-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mattawa_Parc_low-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This route had already been used for millennia by Indians before it was first seen by Europeans in the early 17th century. For more than 200 years thereafter, it was one of Canada&#8217;s main highways of exploration and commerce.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13014 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1869cVoyageurs4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"981\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1869cVoyageurs4.jpg 981w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1869cVoyageurs4-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1869cVoyageurs4-768x377.jpg 768w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1869cVoyageurs4-450x221.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 981px) 100vw, 981px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13253 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Image_Nipissing15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Image_Nipissing15.jpg 480w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Image_Nipissing15-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Image_Nipissing15-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_promoted":"","_job_location":"311 Main St, Mattawa, ON P0H 1V0","_company_website":"http:\/\/ontarioplaques.com\/Plaques\/Plaque_Nipissing15.html","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[186],"job-categories":[147,197],"job-types":[],"job_listing_tag":[180],"class_list":["post-13256","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job_listing_region-northeastern-ontario","job_listing_category-lieux-historiques-en","job_listing_category-plaques","job_listing_tag-articles-promotionnels-etou-documentation-en-francais-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/13256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=13256"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=13256"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=13256"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=13256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}