[5] In 1807, a group of about 400 Scottish Highlanders settled in the area, the same year the geographic township of Lochaber Gore was created.

Settlement was difficult, because income from agriculture was lower than the costs of importing manufactured products from Montreal.

[5][6] With the arrival of the logging industry, the settlers were able to practice agriculture during the summer, while working in the lumberjack camps during the winter, or to work in the various sawmills that developed along the Blanche River near Thurso.

The logging industry also attracted many more settlers, including French Canadians, and settlement was well underway at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

[7] Mother tongue:[4] List of former mayors: Media related to Lochaber-Partie-Ouest at Wikimedia Commons