[1] The river is named after Amable Dufond, a Native hunter and trapper who lived in this area in the mid-19th century.

However, this route is technically difficult, and requires advanced canoeing skills due to low summer water flow and unmaintained portages and campsites.

[5] The Amable du Fond River flows from Pipe Lake through Kawawaymog, North Tea, Manitou, and Kioshkokwi Lakes in northwestern Algonquin Park to join the Mattawa River on the south side of Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park.

It was established in 2006 and is meant to provide a canoe route between Algonquin and Samuel de Champlain Parks.

Its vegetation includes black spruce-white cedar-tamarack bottomland, as well as intolerant hardwoods, mixed conifer, cedar-alder stands, and a riverine wetland complex in the southern portion of the park.