Biographie Lavallee Ignace-Joseph
Ignace Joseph Lavallee a.k.a. Joseph Ranger dit Lavallee (Voyageur) was a resident at the Poste du Grand Lac in 1838 which is a trading post for the Hudson Bay Company in Grand Lac Victoria, L’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
· Grand Lake Victoria, called Kitcisakik Sakaikan or “large lake in the mouth” by the Algonquins, is a vast expansion of the Ottawa River, which extends from the Bay of Missionaries to the south, the bay Kawastaguta the north. It is part of the La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve.
· La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve is one of the largest reserves in the province of Quebec, Canada, covering 12, 589 square kilometers of contiguous land and lake area (Assinica wildlife reserve is the largest in the province, but its territory is broken up in four non-contiguous parts).
Two First Nation communities are found within the boundaries of the wildlife reserve. Kitcisakik on Great Victoria Lake and Lac-Rapide on Cabonga Reservoir.
· Kitcisakik is a small community Algonquian of Quebec located in the region of Abitibi-Temiscamingue. It is located on the shores of Grand Lake Victoria inside the La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve. Kitcisakik is 66 km south of Val-d’Or.
Kitcisakik is an Indian settlement in the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region of Quebec. It is geographically located within the territory of La Vallee de l’Or Regional County Municipality. Its population was 339 in the Canada 2011 Census.
Prior to October 23, 1999, it was known as Grand-Lac-Victoria.
They are waiting for an official status Indian Reserve by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), and since 1906. Officially, they are considered “squatters” on the Crown provincial.
· Community Anicinape Kitcisakik is a small community located in the northern part of La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Quebec. The Anicinapek Kitcisakik have never left their ancestral land and their community has no recognized legal status. They are somehow considered "squatters”. They continued to live on their traditional territory, without the benefit of adequate housing, no running water and no electricity.
The Indian establishment has been named “Grand-Lac-Victoria”. Kitci means “great” and saki, “mouth or opening”.
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