Fort Pic was a trading post founded in 1789 by Gabriel Cotté in partnership with John Grant and Maurice-Régis Blondeau.

The site was on the west bank about 150 yards above the river mouth on a flat 16 feet above the normal water level.

[2] In later years the Pic was used to transport 8 foot pulp logs to Heron Bay, where they were assembled in booms and towed to Marathon.

The Pic river drive was phased out and trucks were employed in lieu of the water based system that was in place for many years.

In the early years woodsmen walked from Marathon after their hire, following trails blazed along the Pic river to camps built to provide wood for the mill.

Walkers went from the mill to the camps taking mail and gathering statistics on wood cut and hauled by horses to the river.