Fight at the Long-Sault National Historic Event
Carillon, Quebec
Photo of plaque
© Parks Canada Agency / Agence Parcs Canada, 1989
Address :
Route 344, Carillon, Quebec
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1954-06-07
Event, Person, Organization:
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Adam Dollard des Ormeaux
(Person)
Other Name(s):
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Fight at the Long-Sault
(Designation Name)
Importance:
Last stand of Dollard des Ormeaux against the Iroquois, 1660
Plaque(s)
Additional plaque: Voyageur Provincial Park (former Carillon Provincial Park), Chute-à-Blondeau, Ontario
Plaque Removed: Route 344 West, Carillon, Quebec
Near here, in an improvised fort at the Long Sault of the Ottawa River, on 2 May 1660, Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, with 16 Frenchmen and about 40 Hurons, waylaid 200 Onondaga hunters. In the ensuing fight, which lasted a week, the Onondaga were joined by about 500 Mohawks and Oneidas who had been gathering on the St. Lawrence. Dollard's party was wiped out, while the Iroquois lost 19 men. That spring the Iroquois did not harass the St. Lawrence settlements, and in June the first furs in several years reached Montreal from the pays d'en Haut. Dollard's contemporaries regarded him as the saviour of the colony.