Joseph Commandant, the last Anishinaabe resident on Lac Tremblant, lived at the mouth of the Cachée River and had a hunting camp on Commandant Isle (now Cedar Island) prior to the formation of Lac-Tremblant-Nord in 1915:
"If I want a hare, I have it; if I want a partidge, I will take one; if I want to feast on fish, I can get it. However the Canayens (Canadians), they always want pancakes"