Prior to the chartering of Donnacona as a town in 1915, the area was named Pointe-Aux-Écureuils a New France Seigneurie that subsisted under the name of Les Écureuils to the surrounding rural parish municipality prior to its final merge with Donnacona in 1967.
Prior to the chartering of Donnacona as a town in 1915, the area was named Pointe-Aux-Écureuils. A New France Seigneurie existed under the name of Les Écureuils as a surrounding rural parish municipality prior to its final merge with Donnacona in 1967.