Oziles' Marina

The marina opens onto Petrie Island and its park in eastern Ottawa. It is in fact a group of islands formed from clay and sand, deposited after the last ice age. The first inhabitants of the area were probably the Middle Archaic Indians during the period 6000 BC. The Iroquois and Algonquin later settled there. In colonial times, this was the route used by Aboriginal people and Europeans to travel west. Étienne Brûlé and Samuel de Champlain were the first Europeans to travel by Petrie Island. The Jesuits and fur traders then used it regularly as a route. The Iroquois used it to mount attacks against the Huron. It was in 1800 that the first settlers settled there to raise livestock and work in the wood industry.