Mount Yapeitso

Mount Yapeitso is a remote 1,128-metre summit in northern Quebec on the southeastern flank of the Otish Mountains, far west of Fermont near the boundary of Eeyou Istchee James Bay and Le Fjord-du-Saguenay. Its significance lies in the survival and official restoration of an older Indigenous place name. Botanist Jacques Rousseau explored the region in 1949 and later discussed naming its features, at one point proposing Bignell Peak for the mountain after Frank Bignell, an assistant surveyor linked to late-19th-century exploration. Rousseau also recorded the Nichicoun Naskapi name Yapeitso, meaning male caribou, and Quebec formally adopted Mont Yapeitso in 1971.

Quebec · Canada