The Algonquin are a Native American people who originated along the Atlantic coast and now live in eastern Canada. Their name comes from the Maliseet word elakomkwik, meaning "they are our relatives/allies," and they first met Europeans when the French explorer Samuel de Champlain met Chief Tessouat at Tadoussac in 1603. The Algonquin were driven from their lands by the Iroquois due to their rivalries related to the fur trade, leading to the French trading muskets to the Algonquins and their allies; at the same time, Jesuit priests converted many Algonquins to Catholicism. The Algonquins continued to fight in alliance with the French until the British conquest of Quebec in 1760 during the French and Indian War, after which they fought alongside the British during the American Revolutionary War. During the 1820s and the 1830s, the spread of the lumber industry up the Ottawa valley displaced the Algonquins, who were relegated to a string of small reserves.