Its territory is located on several of the Sorel Islands in the Saint Lawrence River where it flows into Lac Saint-Pierre.

[1][4] The islands were already well known by the indigenous people as a good fishing and hunting location, and they used them to counter repeated attacks by the French.

[4] The first Frenchman settling on the largest island was reputedly Pierre Dupas (1637-1677), officier in the Carignan Regiment who arrived in Canada in 1665.

[1] On November 10, 1690, Louis Dandonneau, Sieur Du Sablé,[5] and his brother-in-law, Jacques Brisset de Courchesne, both from Champlain, Quebec, purchased the seigneurie of l'Île-du-Pas-et-du-Chicot from Aubert at the cost of 1,500 livres.

In 1855, it was reestablished as a parish municipality called La Visitation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge-de-l'Isle-du-Pads, one of the longest place names in Quebec history.