1582  (1850)  [The people of Saguinay doe testifie that vpon their coastes Westwarde there is a sea, the ende whereof is vnknowne vnto them.]
1754  Canada . . . lay to the west of the country to Saguenay (so called from the river which still bears that name) which therefore lay between it and the mouth of the river [St. Lawrence]. . . .
1848  In speaking of the Saguenay, I must not omit to mention its original proprietors, a tribe of Indians . . . known as the Mountaineers.
1958  The Saguenay [is] a term used to designate a vast region in Quebec, extending between 48° N. and 51° N. from the St. Lawrence River to the height of land that constitutes the watershed between Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence.