The municipality is characterized by hilly forests with a great number of lakes, rivers, and creeks.

Consequently, the local economy is dependent on forestry as well as on the influx of tourists, fishermen and hunters.

[4] Between 1820 and 1849,[4] the Hudson's Bay Company operated a trading post at the outlet of Sables Lake on the Du Lièvre River that controlled all the fur brigades from the upper Du Lièvre and Gatineau Rivers.

[5] In 1873, the Notre-Dame-du-Laus parish was founded, named after the apparitions of Our Lady of Laus.

In 1876, the place was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Bigelow-Wells-Blake-et-McGill, and two years later the post office, which was named Notre-Dame-du-Laus, opened.