The One and Only Mattawa, Ontario | Waterfront | Beautiful Poem and Song

The one and only Mattawa, Ontario. Beautiful town. Here is the waterfront. Enjoy the view, the music and the original poem by Tribute to Canada.

Mattawa, a town in northeastern Ontario, Canada is known for its beauty. Residents, tourists, campers, hikers, boaters, ATV riders, all agree! Mattawa means "Meeting of the Waters" in the Algonquin language. The town is situated where the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers meet.

Mattawa has so much history. Once upon a time, Étienne Brûlé and Samuel de Champlain passed through Mattawa...As did Jean Nicolet in 1620, Jean de Brébeuf in 1626, Gabriel Lallemant in 1648, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers in 1658, La Verendrye in 1731, Alexander MacKenzie in 1794, and David Thompson in 1812....Mattawa was once a lugging hub. According to Wikipedia, First Nations travelled by canoe "west up the Ottawa turned left at "the Forks" (the mouth of the Mattawa) to enter the "Petite Rivière" ("Small River", as compared to the Ottawa), before continuing on to Lake Nipissing."

To celebrate the connection with voyageur history, the Town of Mattawa hosts the Mattawa Voyageur Days Festival on the last weekend (Thursday-Sunday) of July - since 1997.

Make sure to notice the train passing by on the Quebec shore towards the middle of the video!
#Mattawa #Ontario #waterfront

Here is the poem specially written and released for this video (by Tribute to Canada)
The One and Only Mattawa

The one and only Mattawa
The one and only town like this
The one and only Mattawa
The town of which consists
Loggers lodges
three crosses
the River too
Victory, losses
Horses, skidoo
Turcotte chip stand
Le Voyageur Inn
Amable du Fond
Blue waters blue.

The one and only Mattawa
The one and only town like this
The one and only Mattawa
The town of which consists
of Waterfront wide
ATV, big Joe Mufferaw
Algonquin, boats, fishing,
Hack saw
Albert Gauvreau driving the first car
down Main Street,
Mattawa.