Did the algonquins live north east south or west?

The Algonkin or Algonquin tribe historically lived in many separate bands along the Ottawa river valley between Quebec and Ontario. Today they live in many separate reservations in those two provinces. In geographic terms this is in the north-east of North America.

It seems that many modern white Americans in the USA incorrectly apply the term "Algonquin" to all the Algonquian-speaking tribes of North America. This language group includes languages across all of the North American continent from the west coast to the east coast and from the Canadian sub-Arctic to Virginia and North Carolina.