 
The NCC is responsible for the protection and
management of archaeological resources on its land,
as well as for providing advice to other federal departments
and agencies in the same regards on other federal lands
in the National Capital Region.
The National Capital Region is a very small part
of unsurrendered Algonquin territory.
We would like to be more a part of the
management of archaeological resources over the whole territory.
We would like to have some decision making
in how those resources are handled,
from the time they’re taken from the land,
and we feel concerned about that.
The most important site that has been found is at Pointe Gatineau
on Jacques-Cartier Street.
Aboriginal people have occupied the site
many times over the period between 7,000 and 3,000 years ago.
Over time, a lot of information has accumulated about the way people
used the land between the mouth of the Gatineau River and the Chaudières Falls.
People saw this whole landscape as a place.
It was part of a route that brought them to trade with relatives
and friends and peoples from a great part of northeastern North America.
So it was, in many ways, in today's parlance,
it was kind of a destination for a number of different needs that people had.
