Guide SIA_QC, 2024, autieur Michel Auger

Rivière-au-Renard

Mont-Albert

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Last update 2024/05/02

Author : Michel Lm Auger

The IAT-QC Topo+ guide on the International Appalachian Trail wants to go beyond simple cartography by integrating information on the toponyms of the regions crossed, portraits of people who have lived or worked there, certain local historical events, information on the fauna, flora, geology and attractions of the region.

Table of Contents Links in italics are external hyperlinks.

Red stars indicate novelty.

Index : • Topographic maps • Sector maps • Topographic profiles • •

Geographical landmarks Toponymy Supplements

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IAT lodging Portraits

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Legend Books Credits Glossary

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Navigation

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911 markers

Services

Walking time

EMERGENCY RESCUE

IAT-Québec website IAT lodging reservation Official IAT-QC Facebook Page (French) IAT-QC FB Group Trail conditions Food resupplies

IAT history Instagram Help-Question

Hunting season Phases of the Moon REGIM Public transport Tide tables Post offices

Grande-Vallée Cloridorme Drugstores

Thanks Isabelle

michel.lm.auger@gmail.com

INDEX OF TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS This project used the division into 39 sections proposed by the site Hikster.

This daily breakdown is a simple indication. It is necessary to adapt your planning to your desires and physical abilities.

Sector Avignon

Matapédia Matane

Gaspésie

Haute-Gaspésie Côte Gaspé Forillon

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Section

Markers

Section

650-648 01-Matapédia 02-Ref. Turcotte 630-622 03-Ref. Corbeau 04-Ref. Quartz 606-593 05-Ref. Ruisseau Creux 05A-Détour Assemetquagan 592-560 06-Causapscal 07-Abri Chutes 543-521 08-Abri Erablière 09-Amqui 505-480 10-Saint-Vianney 11-Rivière Matane 460-449 12-Ruisseau Pitounes 13-Lac Tombereau 435-421 14-Lac Matane 15-Lac Gros Ruisseau 414-405 16-Mont Craggy 17-Lac Beaulieu 396-382 18-Petit Sault 19-Ruisseau Bascon 16:18 Sorties d’urgence Cartes générales réserve Matane 373-365 20-Ref. Nyctale-Chouette 21-Ref. Huard 22-Ref. Mésange 23-Lac Cascapédia 24-Ref. Paruline 25-Mont Albert 26-Ref. Tétras 27-Mont Jacques-Cartier 255-247 28-Ref. Cabourons 29-Mont Saint-Pierre 226-197 30-Ruisseau Flétan 31-Madeleine Centre 163-139 32-Grande Vallée 139-111 33-Ref. Cascades 34-La Chute 87-79 35-Ref. Zéphyr 35A-Sentier des Éoliennes 77-56 36-Erablière 56-33 37-Les Lacs 38-LesCrêtes1 24-1 39-Cap Gaspé * : Flipbook maps by sector downloadable in pdf format ** : Flipbook topo maps not up to date (slight differences with this guide) *** : Flipbook services and/or hosting not up to date

Markers 647-631

Flipbook Maps* Avignon **

621-604 560-544

Matapédia ***

520-506 480-460 447-435

Matane

421-414 404-397 381-374

Parc de la Gaspésie

245-228

Haute-Gaspésie

196-170 110-87

34-24

Côte Gaspé

Karine Brouillette wanted to keep a permanent memory of her crossing of the IAT in 2022.

Realized by Marily Letendre ©KB

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INDEX OF SUPPLEMENTS Category Cariboo

Article Gaspésie-Atlantic caribou

Category History

Article Micmacs The deportation from Gaspé

Ornithology

The revolt of the fishermen of Rivière-au-Renard

Introduction to birds of Québec by colors

The sinking of the Carrick Misc.

Geology

General

Why is it important not to touch a marine mammal carcass?

Where are the whales this week?

Le Fort Péninsule

Catalog of amphibians and reptiles of Québec

Plan for the destruction of the cities of Quebec, Gaspé, … (2nd WW) The Torpedo of St-Yvon (1942) Aerial drama in the "Shick-Chok". 1957 Le chemin du Grand Sault

Mont-Albert Lac aux Américains Mont Jacques-Cartier Mont Logan Forillon national park IAT volunteers

Glossary Telus cellular coverage map

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The enigma of the Mont Jacques-Cartier radar

Ecological reserves

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Fernald

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Manche d’Épée

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Mont-Saint-Pierre

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Ristigouche

PORTRAITS Alfonse, Jean

Dansereau, Pierre

Matapédia ,Colonisation de la vallée…

Apalaches

Denys, Nicolas

Moll, Herman

Bayfield, Henry Wolsey

Deshayes, Jean

Montmagny, Charles Hault de

Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas

Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis

Potvin, Alain

Blanchard, Raoul

Frontenac, Louis de Buade de

Raudot, Jacques

Cartier, Jacques

Hazeur, François

Roberval, Jean-François de La Rocque de

Catalogne, Gédéon de

Kempt, James

Saint-Viateur, Clercs de

Champlain, Samuel de

Le Clercq, Chrétien

Taché, Eugène-Étienne

Chaste, Aymar de

Léry, Chaussegros de

Vaudreuil, Pierre de Rigaud de

Chauvin, Pierre de

Marie-Victorin, frère

Vautrin, plan Vimont, Barthélemy Wolfe, James

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TOPO MAPS LEGEND Map profile coverage (Some Steep slope (with rope)

Waterfall

sections require multiple maps

Water (spring)

Tide table 136

No Water available

Viewpoint

Marker position

Day shelter

Ecological reserve or floristic habitat

Section topographic profile

Post office

(between parentheses)

Clikable elements

Waypoint

Drugstore

Lodging

Forest road

External link on image

Kilometer (by section)

Lean-to

Hydroelectric line External link on icon

4 sides Shelter (« Abri ») Camping and/or platform Refuge (wood stove)

Slope percentage (calculated by 28% software) > 25%

IAT 911 marker Internal link on icon Overlapping Marker/Km

Google Maps (external)

Grocery

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Convenience store Inn/Motel

Resupply

Junction point between 2 maps of same section

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Services (internal) 3D imagery

Toponymy reference in hyperlink Sector map

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External hyperlink

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Internal hyperlink

Back Aerial imagery

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Distance between

Walking time tablee

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Toponym Albert

Entity type Mont

Legend IAT TOPONYMY Origin and meaning This mountain is part of the Chic-Chocs. Reaching an altitude of 1,151 m, it has two heights, the Albert Sud summit, the highest, and the Albert Nord summit, separated by a plateau known as the Table à Moïse, a set that can be admired from the road crossing the Gaspé Peninsula from Sainte-Anne-des-Monts to New Richmond. A few other landforms in the surrounding area, Monts Jacques-Cartier and Mont Richardson in particular, share to varying degrees some of the bioclimatic characteristics that make Mount Albert an exceptional site in Quebec: snow covers it – at least in part – nine months of the year; its alpine tundra vegetation is distinctive, in many respects similar to that of the Far North; there are, at certain times of the year, a few herds of woodland caribou, these deer having remained south of the St. Lawrence only in the region of the Chic-Choc Mountains. Mount Albert was so named by geologist Alexander Murray (18101884), who reached its summit on August 26, 1845, the birthday of the Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Albert (1819 -1861), husband of Queen Victoria.

Source : Commission de toponymie du Québec

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NAVIGATION Black circle

Lodging

Click on pictures

Red circle and underline

Red circle on icon: external hyperlink Underline: Link to Toponymy

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Hidden links

News and photo browsing

Services

Junction point

Navigation

Black circle

Back to map

Black circle on icon: Internal pharmacy or post office hours Canada

Italics: External link to drugstore

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Navigation

Lodging

Not available Available

Parenthesis: to the lodging table

Parenthesis + italics: external hyperlink to lodging

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Navigation

Click on pictures

Clicking on a shelter photo also takes you to the shelter table.

A click on a photo of a named place leads to the toponym or sometimes to an external site.

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Navigation

Hidden links

Several photos have hidden links to various topics. They are indicated by a blue dot.

Griffon (Mythologie)

Cairn

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Novelties and photo browsing

A red star indicates something new since the previous version. It can be found at a lower level.

The blue horizontal arrows allow you to navigate among all the photographs of a photographer. .

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Navigation

Junction point Map 2 There is often overlap between two maps in the same section, as shown by the red circles on these two maps.

The junction point, consisting of a yellow line, simply allows you to position yourself instantly on the next map when you reach the end of the trail on the first map.

East direction.

Map 1

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End of map

Navigation

Services

Clic on icon

Google Maps

Services

Website

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Téléphone

Navigation

Back arrows For topographic maps, the back arrow -

located at the bottom right - leads back to the index of topographic maps.

In most other cases, it leads back to the calling hyperlink. For Supplements, it is to the supplements index, with exceptions of your choice.

For example, by clicking on the Amqui hyperlink, the description of the toponym is displayed. A click on the arrow brings us back to the Amqui hyperlink, the map in this case.

In cases where a hyperlink may be called from different maps, you will have to choose the source to return to.

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Navigation

This number recalls the section number to return from the sector map

This number recalls the page number of the section to return from the running time table

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Estimated walking time The walking time table estimates the time for 5 basic speeds (2 to 4 km/h), adding 1 hour per 300m of elevation gain and 1 hour per 500m of negative elevation for most sections, but in only accumulating slopes of 7% or more. A slope of less than 7% is considered flat ground. This makes it possible not to overestimate the walking time.

Average walking speed VS Age

This graph comes from the info of more than 1200 hikers of the mythical John Muir Trail.

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Le Diable

Lac du Diable

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TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE BY SECTOR Matane Avignon sector 1-

Matapédia sector

Gaspésie

Côte-Gaspé

(5-472m)

Forillon Sector map

2-Ref. Turcotte

3-Ref. Corbeau

4-Ref. Quartz

5-Ref. Ruisseau Creux

(68-468m) 6-Causapscal

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Haute-Gaspésie

Sector map 7-Chutes

8-Ref. Érablière

9-Amqui

10-St-Vianney

11-Riv. Matane

Topographic profile by sector

Matane sector

(89-1060m)

12-Ruiseau Pitounes

Gaspésie sector 20-Nyctale

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Sector map 13-Lac Tombereau

14-Lac Matane

15-Lac Gros Ruisseau

16-Mt Craggy

17-Lac Beaulieu

18-Petit Sault

(210-1274m) 21-Huard

19Ruisseau Bascon

Sector map 22Mésange

23-Cascapédia

24Paruline

25-Mt Albert

26-Tétras

27-J-Cartier

Topographic profile by sector

Haute-Gaspésie sector 28-Cabourons

Côte-Gaspé sector

(2-718m) 29-MtStPierre

30-Ruisseau Flétan

31-Madeleine-Centre

32-Grande Vallée

(1-350m) 33-Cascades

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Sector map 34-La Chute

35-Zéphyr

36-Érablière

Topographic profile by sector

Forillon sector

(4-490m)

Sector map 37-Les Lacs

38-Les Crêtes 1

Meteors

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39-Cap Gaspé

MAP OF SECTORS General map

Ste-Annedes-Monts

Haute-Gaspésie (Sections 28-32) Mont St-Pierre

Grande Vallée

Côte-Gaspé (Sections 33-36)

Gaspésie (Sections 20-27)

Matane

Mont Jacques-Cartier

Rivière-au-Renard

Forillon (Sections 37-39)

Matane (Sections 12-19)

Matapédia

Mont Blanc

(Sections 6-11) Amqui

Causapscal

Avignon (Sections 1-5) Matapédia

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Mont Albert

Gaspé

Map of sectors AVIGNON topo profile

Avignon sector (Ruisseau Creux)

Section 5

(Quartz)

Section 4 (Ruisseau St-Etienne)

Rivière Assemetquagan Canyon Clark nord

(Corbeau)

Section 3

(Turcotte)

St-André-de-Restigouche (Lagacé)

Section 2 (Matapédia)

Matapédia

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Map of sectors (Erablière)

Matapédia sector -1/2

(St-Alexandre)

Section 9

MATAPÉDIA topo profile

Amqui (Chutes)

Section 8

(Lac au Saumon)

Section 7

(Causapscal)

Causapscal (Ste-Marguerite-Marie)

Section 6

(Ruisseau Creux)

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Map of sectors

Matapédia sector -2/2

MATAPÉDIA topo profile

Réserve faunique de Matane

(Accueil John)

Section 11 (St-Vianney)

Section 10 (Les Trois Sœurs)

(Amqui)

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(Riv Matane)

Map of sectors MATANE topo profile

Matane sector -1/2

Mont des Clercs

Section 15

(Lac du Gros Ruisseau)

(Montagne à Valcourt)

Mont de l’Ouest

(Lac Matane)

Section 14 (Lac Tombereau)

(Ruisseau des Pitounes)

Section 13

Section 12

(Riv. Matane)

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Map of sectors

Matane sector -2/2

MATANE topo profile Mont Coleman

Section 19 (Ruisseau Bascon)

Mont Nicol-Albert

Section 18

(Petit Sault)

(Lac Beaulieu)

Section 17 (Mont Craggy)

Mont Blanc Mont Pointu

Section 16

(Lac du Gros Ruisseau)

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Map of sectors GASPÉSIE topo profile

Gaspésie sector -1/2

Section 23

Pic de l’Aube

Parc national de la Gaspésie

Pic du Brûlé

(Saule)

Section 22 (Kalmia)

(Mésange)

(Lac Cascapédia)

(Huard) (Pluvier)

Mont des Loupes

(Carouge)

Section 21 (Nyctale et Chouette)

(L’Arnica)

Mont Logan

Section 20

(Ruisseau Bascon) © Caltopo

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Map of sectors GASPÉSIE topo profile

Gaspésie sector -2/2 Parc national de la Gaspésie

Mont Jacques-Cartier

Section 27-1 (Camarine)

(Tétras)

Section 26 (La Rivière)

(Lac Cascapédia) (Fougère)

Section 24

Section 25 (Pluvier)

(Roselin)

Mont Albert Nord

(Paruline)

(Mont Jacques-Cartier)

Section 27-2

Mont Dos de la Baleine © Caltopo

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Map of sectors

Haute-Gaspésie sector -1/3

HAUTE GASPÉSIE topo profile

Section 29-1

(Cabourons)

Section 28

(Mont Jacques-Cartier)

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© Caltopo

Map of sectors HAUTE GASPÉSIE topo profile

Haute-Gaspésie sector -2/3

Section 31-1

(Camping de l’Anse Pleureuse) (Ruisseau Flétan)

(Camping Parc et Mer)

Mont Saint-Pierre Mont Louis

Section 30 (Mont Saint-Pierre)

Section 29-2

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Map of sectors

Haute-Gaspésie sector -3/3

HAUTE GASPÉSIE topo profile

(Camping Mer et

Manche d’Épée Montagne) Madeleine Centre

Section 32 Section 31-2

(Camping Au Soleil Couchant)

Grande Vallée

(Grand Sault)

© Caltopo

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Map of sectors

Côte-Gaspé sector -1/2

CÔTE GASPÉ topo profile

(Camping Au Soleil Couchant)

Petite Vallée

Section 33 (Les Terrasses)

Saint-Yvon

Section 34-1

(Motel du Cap)

(Cascades)

© Caltopo

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Map of sectors

Côte-Gaspé sector -2/2

CÔTE GASPÉ topo profile

Section 34-2

Section 35 (Zéphyr)

Section 36 (La Chute)

(Motel Camping des Ancêtres)

(Des Carrières)

(de l’Érablière)

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© Caltopo

Map of sectors FORILLON topo profile

Forillon sector -1/2

(de l’Érablière)

Rivière-au-Renard

Section 37

(Camping des Appalaches)

(Les Lacs)

Section 38-1

© Caltopo

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Map of sectors

Forillon sector -2/2

FORILLON topo profile

Section 38-2

(Les Crêtes 1)

(Les Crêtes 2)

Section 39 (Camping des-Rosiers) (Camping Cap-Bon-Ami)

Mont St-Alban (Camping Petit-Gaspé)

Cap Gaspé © Caltopo

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Chic-Chocs mountain range, seen from Pointe aux Anglais, on the St-Lawrence north shore

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TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

NEW-BRUNSWICK Camping municipal parc Adams

Matapédia

S SIA-section01-Avignon-Matapédia

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 2 : Matapédia → Refuge Turcotte Élévation nette 1/3

641

Coulée McDavid

Rivière Matapédia

Matapédia SIA-section02-Avignon-RefTurcotte-1 /3

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(Matapédia)

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1

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 2 : Matapédia → Refuge Turcotte Élévation nette 636

2/3

639

WARNING : This former IAT trail is no longer maintained and the markings have deteriorated.

Waterfall video

(Lagacé) Chutes à Pico

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 2 : Matapédia → Refuge Turcotte Élévation nette 3/3

(Turcotte)

(Camping et refuge municipal)

St-André de Restigouche

S

Chute à Roger

2 2

3 2

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 3 : Refuge Turcotte → Refuge Corbeau Élévation nette

625

623 1/1

Canyon Clark nord

(Corbeau)

(Turcotte)

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 3 : Refuge Turcotte → Refuge Corbeau

SECONDARY ACCESS FOR THE REFUGE

1/1

Élévation nette

(Corbeau)

Matapédia (17 km)

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 4 : Refuge Corbeau → Refuge Quartz Élévation nette 1/3

618

Ruisseau Clark

Canyon Clark

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 4 : Refuge Corbeau → Refuge Quartz Élévation nette 2/3

610 613

(Ruisseau St-Etienne)

Rivière Assemetquagan

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 4 : Refuge Corbeau → Refuge Quartz Élévation nette 3/3

(Quartz)

ZEC Casault

(Ruisseau St-Etienne)

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 5 : Refuge Quartz → : Refuge Ruisseau Creux Élévation nette 598 1/2

600

ZEC Casault

36% 26%

Detour when the Assemetquagan River is at flood stage and impassable or very dangerous.

(Quartz)

See maps 5A 33%

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 5 : Refuge Quartz → : Refuge Ruisseau Creux Élévation nette

596 2/2

595

(Ruisseau Creux)

28%

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 5A : Détour rivière Assemetquagan

OVERVIEW OF THE DETOUR

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To be used in the event of major floods that make the river impassable or dangerous.

Distance between * 14,6 km

Élévation nette

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(Ruisseau Creux)

6,3 km

3 km

3,5 km

(Marquis-de-Malauze)

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* 3,6 km

4,4 km

* * 1,5 km

(Quartz)

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9,2 km

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 5A : Détour rivière Assemetquagan (Marquis-de-Malauze)

* 3,6 km

*

9,2 km

* 1,5 km

(Quartz)

*

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 5A : Détour rivière Assemetquagan

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Start of detour when arriving from Ruisseau Creux

6,3 km

3,5 km

* (Marquis-de-Malauze)

4,4 km jusqu’à rivière SIA-section05A- Détour Assemetquagan 3/4

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SIA – Secteur Avignon SECTION 5A : Détour rivière Assemetquagan

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14,6 km

10,7 km

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(Ruisseau Creux)

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(Marquis-de-Malauze) © Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 6 : Refuge Ruisseau Creux → Causapscal Élévation nette 1/4

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 6 : Refuge Ruisseau Creux → Causapscal

Ste-Marguerite-Marie (Ste-Marguerite)

Élévation nette

Éoliennes

577 2/4

6 2

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 6 : Refuge Ruisseau Creux → Causapscal Élévation nette 3/4

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 6 : Refuge Ruisseau Creux → Causapscal Élévation nette 4/4

(Camping Chez Moose)

Causapscal

(Causapscal)

S

(Auberge La Coulée douce)

Site patrimonial de pêche Matamajaw

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 7 : Causapscal → Abri des Chutes Élévation nette 1/3

(Camping Chez Moose)

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 7 : Causapscal → Abri des Chutes Élévation nette 2/3

547 552

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 7 : Causapscal → Abri des Chutes Élévation nette 3/3

547

546

(Chutes)

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 8 : Abri Chutes → Abri Erablière Élévation nette 1/2

536

533

(St-Alexandre)

(Chutes)

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 8 : Abri Chutes → Abri Erablière Élévation nette 525

522

2/2

530

(St-Alexandre)

533

St-Alexandre-des-Lacs (Erablière)

Vidéo chute Chute à Philomène

Vers (Lac au Saumon)

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 8 : Exit Abri Lac au Saumon (Off-circuit)

St-Alexandre-des-Lacs

(Erablière)

Élévation nette

1/1

(Lac au Saumon)

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3 2 © Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 9 : Abri Erablière → Amqui Élévation nette 518 515

Pont Beauséjour (1932)

Route 195

1/2

512

Amqui

S (Erablière)

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SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 9 : Abri Erablière → Amqui Élévation nette 2/2

(Abri-Camping municipal)

Pont des Anses St-Jean (1931)

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2 2 © Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 10 : Amqui → Saint-Vianney Élévation nette 1/4

(Abri-Camping municipal)

10 2 SIA-section10-Matapédia-StVianney-1 /4

IAT-QC-Topo+

1 2 © Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 10 : Amqui → Saint-Vianney Élévation nette (Les Trois Sœurs)

491

2/4

PARC RÉGIONAL DE LA SEIGNEURIE DU LAC MATAPÉDIA

10 2 SIA-section10-Matapédia-StVianney-2 /4

IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 10 : Amqui → Saint-Vianney

Élévation nette 3/4

10 2 SIA-section10-Matapédia-StVianney-3 /4

IAT-QC-Topo+

3

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 10 : Amqui → Saint-Vianney Élévation nette 4/4

Saint Vianney

(Saint Vianney)

S

(Saint Vianney)

10 2 SIA-section10-Matapédia-StVianney-4 /4

IAT-QC-Topo+

4

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 11 : Saint-Vianney → Abri Rivière Matane

(Camps Tamagodi)

Rivière Tamagodi

Élévation nette 1/2

473

(St-Vianney) SIA-section11-Matapédia-AbriRivMatane-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

11 2

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matapédia SECTION 11 : Saint-Vianney → Abri Rivière Matane Élévation nette 2/2

Réserve faunique de Matane

(Accueil John)

(Rivière Matane) Rivière Matane

Stationnement des Pins

11 2 SIA-section11-Matapédia-AbriRivMatane-2 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 12 : Riv. Matane → Ruisseau Pitounes Élévation nette 1/1

454

Réserve faunique de Matane (Ruisseau des Pitounes) © Denis Bouvier 2021

*

(Rivière Matane)

Mont aux Perches (600)

Mont Charles-E.-Vézina (390)

Stationnement des Pins

250 m

* SIA-section12-Matane-RuisseauPitounes

IAT-QC-Topo+

12

© Caltopo

Auteur : Michel.lm.auger@gmail.com

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 13 : Ruisseau des Pitounes → Lac Tombereau Élévation nette 1/1

(Lac Tombereau)

444

*

440

Mont Petchedetz (640)

©Denis Bouvier 2021

Lac Tombereau

Mont William-Price (694)

(Ruisseau des Pitounes)

* 13 SIA-section13-Matane-LacTombereau

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 14 : Lac Tombereau → Lac Matane Élévation nette 431

1/2

427

Mont de l’Ouest (922) 1,5 km +144 m

225 m

(Lac Tombereau)

14 SIA-section14-Matane-LacMatane-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 14 : Lac Tombereau → Lac Matane Élévation nette 2/2

427

424

Lac Matane

Montagne à Valcourt (824) 1,6 km +204 m

*

(Montagne à Valcourt)

Mont du Nid d’Aigle

Lac Matane

Route 4

* (Lac Matane)

14

2

SIA-section14-Matane-LacMatane-2 /2 © Caltopo

IAT-QC-Topo+

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 15 : Lac Matane → Lac Gros Ruisseau (Lac du Gros Ruisseau)

©Denis Bouvier 2021

Mont Elie Lister Pic du ruisseau Desjarlais 914 m, +85 m

Élévation nette 1/1

415 418

Lac Matane

(Lac Matane)

15 SIA-section15-Matane-LacGrosRuisseau

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 16 : Lac Gros Ruisseau → Mont Craggy (Mont Craggy)

Mont Craggy Mont Pointu

Mont Fernand Fafard (840)

Élévation nette 406 1/1

410

411

*

Pic Bleu

* Exit map : Lac Gros Ruisseau

SIA-section16-Matane-MontCraggy

IAT-QC-Topo+

(Lac du Gros Ruisseau)

16

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 17 : Mont Craggy → Lac Beaulieu Élévation nette 399

1/1

402

Mont des Fougères (Lac Beaulieu) Chaîne Monts Chic-Chocs 10 km → Route 1

Mont des Disparus (956)

Mont Desjardins

Exit map : Lac Beaulieu

Mont Blanc

(Mont Craggy)

Mont Blanc (1063) *

©Denis Bouvier 2021

Exit map : Mont Blanc

SIA-section17-Matane-LacBeaulieu

IAT-QC-Topo+

7,9 km → Route 1

17

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 18 : Lac Beaulieu → Petit Sault Élévation nette

Cap-Chat 388

394

392

(38 km)

1/1

390

Mont Nicol-Albert (890)

Mont Ala’sui’nui (Petit Sault)

Le Bonhomme du Nicol-Albert

Lac T (sic) WARNING Mont Bayfield (884)

Lac d'Or

Mont Séverin-Pelletier (890)

Le Bonhomme du Mont Nicol-Albert.

The degradation of the soil and the inclination of the slope makes access very perilous and risky. A rope is in place, but it is not sufficient as a means to secure access.

(Lac Beaulieu) 18

Carte Sortie

SIA-section18-Matane-PetitSault

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Jimmy-Russell (930)

Mont Beaulieu (810) © Caltopo

S

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTIONS 16-17-18 : Emergency exit

Section16-Sortie Lac Gros Ruisseau

Section17-Sortie Mont-Blanc

Section18-Sortie Lac Beaulieu

Mont Blanc

Lac Beaulieu

Étang Tallard 7,9 km → Route 1

Lac du Gros Ruisseau

10 km → Route 1

Route 1 Route 1 Route 1

IAT-QC-Topo+

SIA – Secteur Matane SECTION 19 : Petit Sault → Ruisseau Bascon Mont Coleman

Élévation nette 1/1

(Ruisseau Bascon)

Chute Hélène

(Auberge de Montagne des Chic-Chocs)

Mont Jean-Yves-Bérubé (780)

Chute Hélène

(Petit Sault)

SIA-section19-Matane-RuisseauBascon

IAT-QC-Topo+

19 Ruisseau Bascon

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 20 : Ruisseau Bascon → Refuges Nyctale/Chouette

Parc national de la Gaspésie

Réserve écologique Fernald

Habitat floristique du Mont-Logan Mont Logan (1150)

(Nyctale et Chouette)

Mont Dodge (1078)

(230m)

Lac à Jos Gagnon Mont Fortin (1020) Habitat floristique du Mont-Fortin

Habitat floristique du Mont-Matawees

Mont Collins (1036) Mont Matawees (1073)

Élévation nette

Réserve faunique de Matane

1/1

Mont du lac Barbarin 20 (Ruisseau Bascon) SIA-section20-Gaspésie-NyctaleChouette-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

Auteur : Michel.lm.auger@gmail.com

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 20 : Ruisseau Bascon → Refuges Nyctale/Chouette Alternative trail Mont Collins

Mont Fortin (1020)

Mont Collins (1036) Mont Matawees (1073) Sentier Mont Collins

Élévation nette 1/1

Sentier Mont Collins

SIA

Sentier Lac Bardey (De la jonction)

Élévation nette 1/1

Sentier du Lac Bardey

(Ruisseau Bascon)

SIA-section20-Gaspésie-NyctaleChouette-2 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 21 : Refuges Nyctale/Chouette → Refuge Huard

Lac Chic Mont Jacques-Ferron (1043)

Lac Choc (Le Carouge)

Habitat floristique Premier lac des îles

Mont des Loupes (1076)

Élévation nette

1/2

Deuxième lac des îles Mont Pembroke

Lac Gagnon

(Arnica) (Nyctale et Chouette)

SIA-section21-Gaspésie-Huard-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

21

Mont Louis-Marie Lalonde (1051)

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 21 : Refuges Nyctale/Chouette → Refuge Huard

St-Octave-de-l’Avenir

Élévation nette

(10km)

2/2

(Le Kalmia)

(Le Huard)

Lac Thibault

Ruisseau aux Saumons

21

SIA-section21-Gaspésie-Huard-2 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 22: Refuge Huard → Refuge Mésange Élévation nette

1/1

Aerial drama

Pic de l’Aube (920)

(Le Saule)

Mont du Blizzard (976) (Le Mésange) Mont Arthur-Allen (980)

Élévation nette

(Le Huard)

22

SIA-section22-Gaspésie-Mésange

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 23 : Refuge Mésange → Lac Cascapédia Élévation nette 1/2

Pic du Brulé (790)

Pic de l’Aube (920)

Mont Ernest-Ménard

(Le Saule)

(850)

(La Mésange)

Lac aux Bouleaux Lac Loubert

Lac du Pic

SIA-section23-Gaspésie-Cascapédia-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

23

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 23 : Refuge Mésange → Lac Cascapédia Élévation nette 2/2

Pic du Brulé(790)

Mont Ernest-Ménard (850)

(Lac Cascapédia)

(Le Pluvier) 23

SIA-section23-Gaspésie-Cascapédia-2 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 24 : Lac Cascapédia → Refuge Paruline Élévation nette 1/1

Lac du Volume

Mont du Milieu (950)

Lac Lemesurier

(Lac Cascapédia)

Mont Ells (1000)

Lac Bionneau

(Le Pluvier)

(La Paruline)

Lac Manni

Lac Haymard Lac Whalen

Rivière Cascapédia Lac Alain-Potvin

Lac Ahier

24

SIA-section24-Gaspésie-Paruline

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 25 : Refuge Paruline → Mont-Albert Élévation nette 1/2

Lac Lemesurier (La Fougère)

(La Paruline) Lac Bionneau

Lac Whalen

Lac Ahier

25 SIA-section25-Gaspésie-MontAlbert-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 25 : Refuge Paruline → Mont-Albert

Ste-Anne-des-Monts S

Élévation nette

(40 km) 2/2

(Camping La Rivière) Centre de services Mont Albert/ (Gîte du Mont-Albert)

S

Chute Ste-Anne

Le Rabougris (Camping/refuges Mt Albert)

Lac Quiscale

Mont Albert nord (1088)

Grande Cuve

Table à Moise

Rivière Ste-Anne

Chaîne Monts Chic-Chocs

Route 299

Habitat floristique Serpentine MontAlbert Grande Cuve Sud

Chute du Diable

Mur des Patrouilleurs Grand Mur

Mont Olivine Epaule des Caribous

(670)

La Serpentine

25

2

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IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 26 : Mont-Albert → Refuge Tétras Élévation nette 1/2

(Camping de la Rivière)

Centre de services Mont Albert/ (Gîte du Mont Albert) 26

SIA-section26-Gaspésie-Tétras-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 26 : Mont-Albert → Refuge Tétras Élévation nette 2/2

Mont de la Table Lac Tanguay

Lac de la Table Mont Comte (1229) Mont de la Table Sud

(La Camarine) (Le Tétras) Lac Samuel-Côté Mont Xalibu (1140)

(Le Roselin) Le Pergélisol Lac aux Américains Lac aux Américains

Lac Perré

Lac Bouliane 26

SIA-section26-Gaspésie-Tétras-2 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Joseph-Fortin (1080)

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 27 : Refuge Tétras → Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier Élévation nette 1/2

Mont Dos de la Baleine (1249)

Mont Jacques-Cartier (1270) Éole Mont de la Table

Mont Comte (1229) (La Camarine)

27

1

(Le Tétras) SIA-section27-Gaspésie-MontJacquesCartier-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Gaspésie SECTION 27 : Refuge Tétras → Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier Élévation nette 2/2

La patience aplanit les montagnes (Proverbe libanais)

(Mont Jacques-Cartier) Mont des Pics (910)

Chaîne Monts McGerrigle

Mont Rolland-Germain (1202)

Mont de la Passe (1231)

27

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier → Refuge Cabourons Élévation nette 1/3

(Mont Jacques-Cartier) 28 SIA-section28-HauteGaspésie-RefCabourons-1 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

Auteur : Michel.lm.auger@gmail.com

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier → Refuge Cabourons Élévation nette 2/3

Réserve faunique des Chic-Chocs

28

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier → Refuge Cabourons Élévation nette 3/3

(Cabourons)

28

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IAT-QC-Topo+

3

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 29 : Refuge Cabourons → Mont St-Pierre Élévation nette 1/2

29

1

(Cabourons) SIA-section29-HauteGaspésie-MtStPierre-1 /2

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 29 : Refuge Cabourons → Mont St-Pierre Élévation nette

(Camping municipal Mont St-Pierre)

2/2

Vallée Mont-St-Pierre

Réserve écologique du Mont Saint-Pierre

29

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre → Abri Ruisseau Flétan Élévation nette WARNING 1/3

Presence of Giant Hogweed. Its sap contains toxins. These are activated by light and make the skin extremely sensitive to the sun, causing damage to superficial skin cells (burn-like lesions, painful and sometimes severe).

Anse de Mont-Louis Fleuve Saint-Laurent

(Camping Parc et Mer)

Mont Saint-Pierre

Saint Maximedu- Mont-Louis

S Mont St-Pierre

Mont Thomas-Mercier

S

(Camping municipal Mont St-Pierre) SIA-section30-HauteGaspésie-RuisseauFlétan-1 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

30

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre → Abri Ruisseau Flétan Élévation nette 2/3

(Camping de l’ Anse Pleureuse)

L’Anse Pleureuse (Camping Parc et Mer)

Parc éolien Mont-Louis (67 éoliennes)

30

2

Mont Louis SIA-section30-HauteGaspésie-RuisseauFlétan-2 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre → Abri Ruisseau Flétan Élévation nette 3/3

Pointe Pleureuse

(Ruisseau Flétan)

Le Morne SIA-section30-HauteGaspésie-RuisseauFlétan-3 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

30

3

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan → Madeleine-Centre Élévation nette 1/3

Chemin du Portage (Ruisseau Flétan)

Gros-Morne

S

Rue du Moulin

31

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IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan → Madeleine-Centre Pointe du Wrack

Manche d’Épée

S Élévation nette

178 2/3

Parc éolien Gros-Morne (141 éoliennes)

(Lac à Cyrille)

Parc éolien Gros-Morne (141 éoliennes)

Réserve écologique de Manche d’Épée 31

SIA-section31-HauteGaspésie-MadeleineCentre-2 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Haute-Gaspésie SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan → Madeleine-Centre

Phare du Cap-dela-Madeleine

Anse de la Rivière Madeleine (Camping Mer et Montagne)

Madeleine-Centre Anse de la Rivière Madeleine

S

Élévation nette 3/3

Lac Castor 31 SIA-section31-HauteGaspésie-MadeleineCentre-3 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

3

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre → Grande-Vallée Élévation nette 1/3

(Camping Mer et Montagne)

Phare du Cap-dela-Madeleine

Anse de la Rivière Madeleine

Anse du Cap à l’Ours

Saint-Madeleine-dela-Rivière-Madeleine

La Grande Anse

S

32

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IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre → Grande-Vallée Élévation nette 2/3

La Grande Anse

Ch. Du Grand Saut

Petit lac à Foin

Petit lac de l’Est

(Grand Sault) 32

SIA-section32- HauteGaspésie -GrandeVallée-2 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

Passe migratoire à saumons du Grand Sault

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre → Grande-Vallée Élévation nette 3/3

Le Gisant

Table des marées (Grande-Vallée)

Estuaire du Saint-Laurent

Anse à Colin

Cap Barré

Halte routière Route 132

(Camping au Soleil Couchant)

Grande-Vallée

S Pont Galipeault

32

3

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IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée → Refuge Cascades Élévation nette 1/3

Petit rorqual

Anse à Mercier

(Camping au Soleil Couchant)

Bateau Frederika Lensen

Petite-Vallée

Anse à Déry

S

33

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IAT-QC-Topo+

Petite-Vallée, 1934

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée → Refuge Cascades Élévation nette 2/3

121 124

Lac Long Lac Brûlé Pointe-à-la-Frégate Lac Orignal

Anse-aux-Canons

(Terrasses)

Parc éolien Montagne sèche (39 éoliennes)

33

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée → Refuge Cascades Élévation nette 3/3

120

Cloridorme

S

Parc éolien Montagne sèche (39 éoliennes)

(Cascades)

33

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IAT-QC-Topo+

3

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades → Abri La Chute Élévation nette 1/3

* Cloridorme S

3 km

Cap Barré

105 102

Pointe à Mimi

(Motel du Cap)

(Cascades)

Saint Yvon

*

S

St-Yvon torpedo

34

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IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades → Abri La Chute Élévation nette 2/3

Saint Yvon Anse à la Rogne

Tide tables (Cloridorme)

Anse de l’Etang

34

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades → Abri La Chute Élévation nette 3/3

Grand Étang

Route 132

Seigneurie de l’Anse-de-l’Étang

Chutes Jalbert Parc éolien L’Anse-à-Valleau (67 éoliennes)

SIA-section34-CôteGaspé-LaChute-3 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

(La Chute)

34

3

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte-Gaspé SECTION 35 : Abri Chute → Refuge Zéphyr Élévation nette 1/1

Zéphyr (Zéphyr)

Chutes Jalbert

(La Chute)

Parc éolien L’Anse-à-Valleau (67 éoliennes)

35 SIA-section35-CôteGaspé-Zéphyr

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Côte Gaspé : Sentier des Éoliennes – (Off circuit)

SIA Chutes Jalbert

Parc éolien L’Anse-à-Valleau (67 éoliennes)

SIA

Lac Victorin

SIA-section35A-CôteGaspé-Eolienne

IAT-QC-Topo+

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr → Refuge Erablière Élévation nette 1/3

(Zéphyr) Anse à Zéphyr

La Grande Anse

Tide tables (Cloridorme)

L’Anse-à-Valleau

S

(Motel Camping des Ancêtres) 36 SIA-section36-CôteGaspé-Érablière-1 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr → Refuge Erablière Élévation nette 2/3

Rang du Ruisseau Jaune

Lac de la Ligne

*

Saint-Maurice-del’Échouerie

S

*

(Des Carrières)

SIA-section36-CôteGaspé-Érablière-2 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

Grande Anse

36

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr → Refuge Erablière Élévation nette 3/3

36 SIA-section36-CôteGaspé-Érablière-3 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

3

(De l’Érablière) © Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière → Camping Les Lacs

Élévation nette 1/3

(De l’Érablière)

La Grande Coulée

37

IAT-QC-Topo+ SIA-section37-Forillon-LesLacs-1 /3

1

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière → Camping Les Lacs Rivière-au-Renard

S Rivière-au-Renard (8 km)

(Camping des Appalaches)

Parc national Forillon

Élévation nette 2/3

37

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IAT-QC-Topo+

2

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière → Camping Les Lacs Élévation nette 3/3

Étang « Lac à Canard »

Mont du lac à Canard

Lacs de Penouille

37

3

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IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 38 : Camping Les Lacs → Camping Les Crêtes 1

L’Anse-au-Griffon (Les Lacs)

S

Élévation nette 1/1

*

(Les Crêtes 1)

0,8 km

* SIA-section38-Forillon-LesCretes1

IAT-QC-Topo+

38 Centre opérationnel du parc © Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 → Cap Gaspé Élévation nette 1/3

(Les Crêtes 1)

Baie de Gaspé (Les Crêtes 2)

Gaspé

Cap-aux-Os

S 39

1

Penouille Fort Péninsule SIA-section39-Forillon-Cap-Gaspé-1 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

© Caltopo

SIA – Secteur Forillon SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 → Cap Gaspé

Cap-des-Rosiers

S

(Camping Des-Rosiers)

(Camping Cap-Bon-Ami)

(Camping Petit-Gaspé)

Mont Saint-Alban

Élévation nette 2/3

Grande-Grave

39 SIA-section39-Forillon-Cap-Gaspé-2 /3

IAT-QC-Topo+

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Ahier

Lake

Its name recalls the memory of a captain named Ahier. He lived in Grande-Grave, now a locality on the Forillon peninsula in the national park of the same name, on the north side of Gaspé Bay. A number of nearby lakes also bear the names of former captains who settled in Grande-Grave.

Alain-Potvin

Lake

The name recalls the memory of the biologist Alain Potvin, who worked for several years for the ministère du Loisir, de la Chasse et de la Pêche. His action was particularly linked to the Parc national de la Gaspésie in the late 1980s. He was then working in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts and among other things carried out the management plan for the park's natural resources. He was passionate about outdoor activities and especially hiking. On May 31, 1992, Alain Potvin died during a mountain expedition. After reaching the summit of Mount McKinley in Denali Park in Alaska, a fatal accident occurred during the descent to base camp.

Ala'sui'nui

Mount

Its name, of Mi'kmaq origin, means “mountain of the traveler”.

Albert

Mount

This mountain is part of the Chic-Chocs. Reaching an altitude of 1,151 m, it has two heights, the Albert Sud summit, the highest, and the Albert Nord summit, separated by a plateau known as the Table à Moïse, a set that can be admired from the road crossing the Gaspé peninsula from Sainte-Anne-des-Monts to New Richmond. Some other landforms in the area, the Jacques-Cartier and Richardson mountains in particular, share to varying degrees some of the bioclimatic characteristics that make Mont Albert an exceptional site in Quebec: snow covers it - at least in part - nine months a year; its alpine tundra vegetation is peculiar, in many respects similar to that of the Far North; At certain times of the year, there are a few herds of woodland caribou there, these deer having been kept south of the St. Lawrence only in the region of the Chic-Chocs Mountains. Mount Albert was so named by the surveyor-geologist Alexander Murray (1810-1884), who reached the summit on August 26, 1845, the birthday of the prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Albert (1819 -1861), husband of Queen Victoria.

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IAT toponymy Américains, aux

Lake

The name of Lac aux Américains comes from two French-Canadian guides (Samuel Côté and Joseph Fortin) who in 1903 accompanied two American botanists from Harvard University in Boston who were doing plant surveys in the area. ( Source : Centre de recherche sur les milieux insulaires et maritimes)

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City

The Mi'kmaq word amqui, also found under the spellings humqui, ankwi, unkoui, has meanings: where we have fun, where we play; place of fun and pleasure. The game in question could relate to the swirling of water, but it seems that only one source accredits this explanation. Rather, it should be seen as a concrete sign of joyous gatherings of Native Americans in the past.

The Amerindian presence was also maintained in this territory until the beginning of the 20th century. Father Joseph-Étienne Guinard, however, finds the translation a place of fun and pleasure fanciful and prefers the meaning of comrade or brother-in-law. Father Pacifique, a specialist in the Mi'kmaq language, offers for his part the explanation, half ripe, drawn from the comparison with the Mi'kmaq word amgoig, a hypothesis which has however received very little support so far.

Anse à Colin

Locality

Its name recalls the memory of Charles Collin, fisherman and pioneer of the native place of Montmagny.

Accompanied by his wife, he arrived in Grande-Vallée in the early 1850s. However, the family left in 1856 to settle in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts. The reason why the toponym is written with a single "L" is unknown.

Anse à Déry

Locality

At one time, each owner of a lot adjoining the sea tended to give his name to the cove closest to his property. This is among others the case of Pierre Déry, fisherman and farmer who arrived from Montmagny in 1878 with his wife Odile Proulx and their two eldest sons. Installed on the heights to the east of the village, he anchored his boat in the small bay at the foot of his land.

Anse à Mercier

Locality

This small bay evokes the memory of another fisherman who came to settle temporarily in this place during the years 1840-50, a man named André Mercier. He left no descendants in Grande Vallée.

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IAT toponymy Anse-auxAmérindiens

Locality

“Sauvages” lived in this cove during the French regime, which gave the place its name. But we don't if they were Micmacs or Montagnais, because many of the latter had come from the north coast of the Gulf to settle in Gaspésie.

Normally Parks Canada applies the respectful policy of specifying the Native American nation involved. But in this case, the data is missing.

It must be remembered that at that time, the term "sauvage" referred to those people who lived fully from nature, in the same sense that we still use this term to designate the native flowers of a region. So there was nothing pejorative about the term. The term took on another connotation later. Keeping the name of the cove as an appellation of origin and asserting that it is part of our regional toponymic heritage dating from New France could have been used for educational purposes.

L’Anse aux Sauvages appears on the map of Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp, on the eve of the Conquest (1758). With the coming of the British, this place came to be called Indian Cove.

(Source : Magazine Gaspésie, avril-juillet 2017)

Anse-aux-Canons

Locality

It refers to two cannons, one located near the hamlet church, the other on the beach. These two guns are remnants of the sinking of the frigate Penelope in 1815. About 200 British sailors and soldiers, who were returning to Canada after the victory against Napoleon, perished in this sinking which occurred after the ship struck reefs near the hamlet neighbor of Pointe-à-la-Frégate.

During the night of April 30, 1815, the frigate Penelope approached a point off Gaspé, off what is now the municipality of Cloridorme. On the morning of May 1, the frigate was ripped open by rocks half-submerged by the waves. The crew tried to control the flooding in the hold, but to no avail. The captain gave the order to lower the lifeboats. The frigate also opened fire with these cannons to attract the attention of the residents, but to no avail.

Finally, despite all efforts, the Penelope sank and most of the men perished at sea. The surviving sailors and soldiers were taken to Quebec City, along with Captain Galloway, who was among the survivors. Data on the total number of victims has not been preserved, but it can be assumed that at least 200 sailors and soldiers died in the wreck.

Source : Histoire du Québec

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IAT toponymy Anse du Cap à l’Ours

Locality

We identify two possible origins of the toponym Cap à l'Ours: the protuberances of the cape would draw the profile of a bear; the pioneers of the place would have seen a bear, on the cape, the day of the installation in the region.

(Source : ‘Les plages et les grèves de la Gaspésie’ de Josée Kaltenback, ed. Fides )

Anse St-Georges

Locality

Anse St-Georges recalls the name of a pioneer of the place, Georges Lemesurier, originally from the island of Guernsey.

(Source : ‘Les plages et les grèves de la Gaspésie’ de Josée Kaltenback, ed. Fides )

Appalaches

Mountain range

The Appalachians are a mountainous system in North America extending over more than 2,000 km that we follow throughout the eastern part of the continent, from the state of Alabama to Newfoundland.

The Apalachee Native American nation, after which the mountain range is named, occupied northern Florida. The toponym Apalachen is mentioned in 1527 to determine a place in the southeastern United States.

The Spanish explorer and administrator Cabeza de Vaca, who tried but failed to conquer Florida that year, indicates in his memoirs published in 1528 that Apalachen is the Native American name of a province.

This name appeared later in cartographic documents but it designated in an imprecise way the mountainous relief located in the north of Florida. The maps of Ortelius (1564) and Mercator (1569) give Apalchen. On this last map, the Appalachians are represented as a range oriented southwest–northeast up to present-day Nova Scotia. However, it was from the 18th century that cartographers extended the toponym Appalaches. For Nicolas Bellin (1755), the Appalachian Mountains extend from Florida to Pennsylvania.

To identify the entire massif, in the 19th century, the names Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains, in the United States, imposed themselves to the detriment of other denominations. The consecration of the toponym Appalaches, written with the doubled letter p, in preference to Allegheny, is due to the work of Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884). Before publishing his geological study on this mountain range, in 1861, this geologist finally opted for Appalachian, as the title of his study On the Appalachian Mountain System indicates. It is the high

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IAT toponymy scientific value of this publication that seems to have established the exclusive use of Appalachian to designate this mountain range both in the United States and in Quebec.

However, the name Appalaches appeared timidly in the province of Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century.

Until the 1930s, the Northern Appalachians were still distinguished from the Southern Appalachians located in the United States. Parts of this massif have been given specific names: the Chic-Chocs mountains which occupy the heart of the Gaspé Peninsula; the Notre-Dame mountains which stretch from Beauce to Gaspé; the Green Mountains which in Quebec form the northern extremity of the Green Mountains of the State of Vermont; the White Mountains which are in Estrie the extension of the White Mountains of the State of New Hampshire.

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River

Its name, an adaptation of the Mi'kmaq script Asm'tgwe'gn, means "who suddenly appears around the corner."

Aube, de l’

Peak

It was in 1989, as part of an operation to designate the main summits of the Chic-Chocs and McGerrigle mountains led by the administration of the Parc national de la Gaspésie, that this name was given. It replaced the name Pic de l'Aurore, used locally due to the first rays of sun hitting the peak, but which duplicated the peak of the same name located in Percé.

Bascon

Brook

The name recalls, since 1963 or before, Louis Bascon named in a contract of engagement (1797-09-13) to go to the French trading post of Detroit (territory including the current American city of Detroit).

Barbarin

Mount, Lake

This toponym evokes Arsène-Louis Barbarin (1812-1875). A lawyer born in Marseilles, he joined the Sulpicians where he was ordained in 1841. A year later, he arrived in Canada and taught at the college and then at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal. Vicar of the parish of Notre-Dame in 1853, he returned to France in 1874 where, ill, he died at the Prémontrés abbey, near Tarascon, in Provence. This name was approved in 1968. Variations: Bromley Lake; Lake Tarzan.

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Mount

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Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield (1795-1885) carried out numerous hydrographic surveys in the river and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Geologist William E. Logan named this mountain this way when it climbed in 1844.

White (“Blanc”) because often covered with snow.

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Mount

This name was proposed by the Park Administration. It judiciously defines the runaway, fast, vibrant, high-velocity north wind which oscillates the temperature at -90C and reaches 150 km at the top of the mountains. The blizzard also inspired the Mi'kmaq Native American legends populated by the bewitching spirit of the Chic-Chocs.

Brûlé, du

Peak

This name was proposed by the Park Administration. It originates from the presence of a burnt that took place in 1959 and destroyed 34,240 acres. There are still traces there today.

Cap-aux-Os

Cape

This specific denomination is common to three other geographical entities in the same sector, namely Petit cap aux Os, Gros cap aux Os and Petit rivière du Cap aux Os. … It is generally believed that the numerous whale bones found on the beach, remnants of ancient hunts, inspired the choice of the toponym, which dates back to the mid-19th century. Father Bossé, a missionary in Cap-aux-Os in 1872, rather believes that the name results from a distortion of the surname Ozo, the name of the first Guernsey man (from the island of Guernsey) who came to settle there in the 19th century. century. For her part, Carmen Roy, author of Oral Literature in Gaspésie, in 1962, believes that the designation comes from Cap Oiseau.

Cap Barré

Cape

The only German torpedo to hit Canadian shores during World War II struck land between Cap Barré and Point à Mimi on September 8, 1942.

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(Source : ‘Les plages et les grèves de la Gaspésie’ de Josée Kaltenback, ed. Fides )

Cap-Bon-Ami

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The toponym Bon Ami is taken from the surname present in the name of Hélier Bonamy, Guernsey merchant of the Bonamy and LeMesurier company, established in Cap-Gaspé in the middle of the 18th century. In 1777, this firm employed 58 of the 70 engaged fishing in the region. Thomas LeMesurier and Hélier Bonamy would have been the first traders from the Channel Islands to settle in the Gaspé region. The name of the cape is inscribed on most maps drawn up in the 19th century, notably those of Antoine Painchaud (1858), Russell (1861) and Bayfield (reissue of 1890), as well as that entitled Cap Rosier (1873) .

IAT toponymy Cap-Chat

City

This municipality of Gaspésie, where a mission was established in 1815, owes its name, according to the most widespread opinion, to a rock in the shape of a halfsquatting cat located very close to the city and which can be distinguished by several tens of kilometers from Cap-Chat. The statement on a map of Father Ducreux dating from 1660 of the indication "Promontorium Felis", promontory of the cat, near CapChat, would tend to accredit this thesis. A legend points out that once a cat roaming the Cape-Catan beach killed many animals and that the Fairy-Cat, suddenly appearing and accusing him of having devoured his children, locked him in his stone prison until the end. the times. Another explanation, which seems the only acceptable next to legendary interpretations, maintains that the element "Chat" comes from the deformation of the name of Aymar de Chaste, 3rd lieutenant general of New France in 1603, which would tend to confirm the spelling “Cap-Chatte” and the pronunciation [kap1at] still common among the elderly population of the place. In addition, the forms "Cap de Chatte" (1612 and 1660), "Cap de Chate" or "Cap de Chatte" (1632) and "Cap du Chat" (1685) have been identified.

Cap-des-Rosiers

Village

Although frequented since the 17th century by fishermen, Cap-des-Rosiers will see its first official mission set up in the middle of the 19th century. Stanislas Drapeau (1863) reported a little more than a thousand inhabitants to “the mission of Saint-Alban (Cap-Rosier)”. As for the municipality of Saint-Alban-du-Cap-des-Rosiers, it will be erected in 1895 and will merge with Gaspé in 1971. Important reception area of Forillon National Park, fishing trips are offered by the villagers. . You can also visit the Cap-des-Rosiers lighthouse, listed as a historic monument in 1977. Built in 1858, this 37 m high lighthouse is the tallest in Canada.

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The name of Cap-des-Rosiers comes from a large quantity of wild roses that were found there during the first expeditions. Cap-des-Rosiers has been known to fishermen since at least the 17th century and the name of the place is found on one of Samuel de Champlain's maps, published in 1632 as part of the preparation of documents for the negotiations of the limits of the territories between France and Great Britain. The cape appears there under the name of Cap Rosier.

The village has witnessed important historical events. It may be recalled that it was from Cap-des-Rosiers that the French vanguard sighted the British fleet heading for Quebec in the spring of 1759 and it was here that terrible shipwrecks took place, including the shipwreck of the Carrick, an Irish sailboat. During this shipwreck, 139 Irish immigrants perished and the 48 survivors became residents of Cap-des-Rosiers, L'Anse-au-Griffon, Cap-aux-Os and Rivière-au-Renard. In 1968, the bell of the Carrick was found. Today, it serves as a monument in memory of the shipwrecked.

(Source : Grandquebec) During World War II, on September 15, 1942, Warden Joseph Ferguson sighted a German U-boat and sounded the alarm to Civil Defense.

(Source : Wikipedia)

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IAT toponymy Cap-Gaspé

Cape

Cap Gaspé is located at the tip of the Forillon peninsula, about ten kilometers long and at least 1 km wide. Very steep on the north side, Cap Gaspé, which rises to 91 m, is accessible from the south side by a narrow gravel road. As early as 1625, Champlain, speaking of Cap de Gaspey, reported the presence of a small rock a league (5 km) away, called Le Farillon. However, it is probably the close presence of these two toponyms which explains why Cap Gaspé was identified by Cap Forillon at the end of the 17th century by Nicolas Denys (1672), Le Forillon on a map by Jean Deshayes raised in 1686 and published in 1695 and Cap Fourillon on a map by Lange in 1775. We even find, on an anonymous map drawn around 1760, the toponym Old Woman instead of the place name identifying the cape. The official form of the toponym which ignores the particle, although it is present under the pen of Champlain in 1625 and on several maps of the French Regime, must have been inspired by the map of the counties of Bonaventure and Gaspé published in 1924 by the Ministère des Terres et Forêts and preceded by maps of English inspiration, such as that of Carver (1776) which mentions "C. Gaspe".

Cascapédia

River

Born from Lac Cascapédia and the surrounding waterways, the Cascapedia River, after having traveled more than a hundred kilometers to the south, emerges in Baie des Chaleurs via Baie de Cascapédia. Frequented by fishing enthusiasts, it is recognized as one of the richest salmon rivers in the province. In order to ensure its protection, in 1982 the Quebec government established the Rivière-Cascapédia wildlife reserve over almost all of its course.

Everyone agrees about the Micmac origin of this hydronym, derived from gesgapegiag, which would mean strong currents or wide river. It can be observed that the course of the Cascapédia, free of any major obstacle, of any significant difference in level, forms a uniformly rapid current.

First indicated “R. Kichkabeguiak” on a map by J.-B.-L. Franquelin, in 1686, it is Rivière Kaskabijack which appears in an anonymous report of 1783, kept at the National Archives of Canada according to Father Pacifique.

Stanislas Drapeau (1863) writes Rivière Cascapédia, like the current spelling, while the name "Grande R. Cascapedia" is inscribed on the map of the province of Quebec by Eugène Taché in 1870.

From Lac Cascapédia, included within the limits of the Gaspésie conservation park, surveyor Joseph Hamel surveyed the river in 1835 and noted the abundant presence of fish there, such as trout, salmon, carp and white fish. The Description des cantons arpentés... (1889) notes that "The great Cascapedia... comes out of Lake Cascapedia"

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IAT toponymy Causapscal

City

The municipality of the village of Causapscal derives its name from that of the township of Casupscull in the valley of the Matapedia, proclaimed in 1864. The graphic modification, attested for the first time in 1845, at the time of the beginnings of the settlement, could be explain by reversing u and a and replacing the letter u by the letter a as a result of a phonic echo phenomenon.

On the other hand, graphic distortions are common in Native American words adapted to French. This name comes from the Mi'kmaq Goesôpsiag or Gesapsgel or Gesôpsgigel having for meaning stony and brilliant bottom, fast water, stony point, this last meaning being well suited to the bed of the Causapscal river of very stony nature.

However, authors attribute different meanings to Causapscal and Casupscull. The particular situation of the city, at the confluence of the Causapscal and the Matapedia which meet to form a fork, earned it, around 1830, the name of: Les Fourches or Les Fourches-de-Causapscal, subsequently modified and who gave birth to the gentile Causapscalien.

Charles-E.-Vézina

Chic-Chocs

Mount

Mountain range

Its name evokes the memory of Charles-E. Vézina, founder of the Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Matane, died in Matane on April 13, 1973.

This mountain range of the Gaspé peninsula, formed by a high narrow plateau, constitutes the eastern end of the mountain range that is the Notre-Dame Mountains at the same time as the Appalachians. The imposing whole of this orographic strip, which is about 95 km long and 10 km wide, parallel follows the St. Lawrence at a distance of 20 to 40 km inland.

The geographer Raoul Blanchard writes in “L'Est du Canada français” that: "These highlands which are called the Shick shocks mountains deserve the name of mountains because of the steepness of their northern slopes". The Mi'kmaq word sigsôg means steep rocks or rocky mountains according to the authors. In his Journal concerning the exploration of the counties of Gaspé, Rimouski and Bonaventure, Joseph Bureau wrote in 1883: “There are large mountains called the Chic-Chocs”. This oronym has known several graphic variants, in particular: Chikchâks (1836); Shick-shock (1857); Chick-Saws (1863).

Clark

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Brook, canyon

The reason why this name was chosen is unknown. He is also known by the Mi'kmaq name Epsiagueg, which means “the very hot pot”.

Mount

Its name recalls that the clerics of Saint-Viateur regularly stayed on the shores of Lake Matane in the 1960s, in a large camp given to them by the Hammermill Paper company. The camp was near the Lac-Matane dam.

IAT toponymy Cloridorme

Village

Several hypotheses, more or less satisfactory, have been put forward to explain the name Cloridorme colonized since 1838 by people from Montmagny. Moreover, we have already put forward the hypothesis that the place owes its name to one of the first settlers, Cloridan Côté, a native of Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny.

A mission corresponding to the later name of Sainte-Cécile-de-Cloridorme opens in 1853, becomes a parish in 1873 with the opening of the registers and will be erected canonically only in 1900. It seems that nobody knows today the true origin or meaning of this toponym. Even the hypothesis presented as the most plausible does not hold up well to analysis. Indeed, it is believed that the concession, in 1707, to Charles Morin by Governor Vaudreuil and Intendant Raudot of a territory called Cloridan at the Ristigouche River, an appellation which, by successive modifications, would have resulted in Cloridorme, would provide the definitive explanation.

But it has been shown that the displacement of this toponym from the Baie des Chaleurs to the north coast of the Gaspé appears if not impossible at least highly unlikely. What we know for sure is that the name was already in use during the 18th century as evidenced by an anonymous map of 1755, Les Cloridormes (sic) and that in the 19th century it was argued that Les Chlorydormes identify two bays open on the St. Lawrence, on the east side, a phenomenon to be compared to the Petit-Cloridorme and GrandCloridorme rivers.

Cloridorme 1940

Coleman

Mount

Collins

Mount

Geographer J.-F. Collins visited the Chic-Chocs in 1921-22, and co-authored with M.-L. Fernald the article "The region of Mount Logan, Gaspé Peninsula". (Geographical Review, Vol. 15, 1925).

Comte

Mount

This name was proposed by the administration of the Parc national de la Gaspésie. Guides, explorers and naturalists have been using this name since 1939. Its origins probably lie in the relationship between a nobleman and a scientific mission.

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His name, which appears in a 1922 geological report, recalls Arthur Philemon Coleman (18521939), a geologist and glaciologist who carried out research in the Chic-Chocs in the early 20th century. Author of numerous scientific publications, he notably published Physiography and Glacial Geology of Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec (1922).

IAT toponymy Diable, du

Lake, Waterfall, Brook

The Devil, the incarnation of Absolute Evil, certainly represents one of the characters some would say real, others mythological or legendary - the best known to Quebecers, who have heard about it in the family, at school, at school. church, going to the cinema, museum or other occasions. No wonder, since it is one of the most common creatures in the imagination around the world, in all or almost all cultures and has been since time immemorial. The belief in the personification of Evil finds its origin in the Eastern civilizations of Antiquity, imagining the world dominated by two great spiritual powers, with relatively equal but opposite forces, crossed and influenced by angels and demons. Judaism and Christianity inherited this conception, modifying or adapting it according to their needs. Thus, in the Bible, the book of Genesis explains that God had to expel from heaven some of his angels, revolted at the instigation of the proud Lucifer, subsequently become the prince of demons - or devils - and called Satan , Beelzebub or Devil. This last name, present in the French language since 881, first in the form of diaule then remade in devil at the end of the 10th century, comes from the Latin diabolus, translation of the Greek diabolos meaning "which disunites, which inspires the hatred or envy ”.

Long subject to the authority of the Catholic clergy, Quebec society made use of the most common name of the Devil in many ways. In toponymy, many used "Diable" to name certain rivers or waterfalls in order to emphasize the deafening, infernal noise they produced. It appears in a number of sayings, proverbs and expressions, including " mener le diable ", " faire un bruit du diable " (that is to say, produce very loud, deafening, disturbing sounds); " cela ne vaut pas diable " (object without value) or " loger le diable dans sa bourse " (being without money). Someone can also be "beau diable" or angry; " avoir le diable au corps ", therefore behave in a turbulent, disorderly manner; and " débattre comme un diable dans l'eau bénite" (to struggle like a devil in holy water), to be agitated a lot, to act energetically but without result. Some even speak of going “au diable vauvert” or very far, but without necessarily realizing that they are alluding to the castle of Vauvert, in the Paris region, haunted, inhabited by the Devil. The latter also occupies a prominent place in tales and legends, constantly attacking members of the Catholic clergy and wanting to cause people with simple and pure hearts to fall into sin.

The iconography generally presents the Devil as a tall and slender man, dark or black in complexion, with split feet, with horns on his head and a long tail at the base of the back. Master of darkness and Hell, a place where the damned are held, the Devil possesses many powers, including that of making his horns and tail disappear from human sight. In addition to the character, devil identifies a few objects, including a cart used for handling, a

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IAT toponymy cooking utensil and a device intended to cut down trees. The current waterfall probably bears this name because of its presence on the course of the Ruisseau du Diable.

Desjardins

Mount

Son nom rappelle des membres d'une famille matanaise qui ont travaillé comme garde-feu au sommet du mont Blanc, situé à proximité au sud-est : Élisé de 1938 à 1942, son frère Alexis qui l'accompagnait en 1942 et, plus tard, un de leurs cousins du même nom.

Disparus, des

Mount

Its name recalls the disappearance, in December 1936, of three brothers from the Imbeault family in this area.

Dodge

Mount

The name "Mount Dodge" is noted in "The region of Mount Logan Gaspé Peninsula", Franklin Collins and Merritt L. Fernald (1925). It was taken up by Camille Gervais, in The vascular flora of the Mont Logan region, Gaspésie (1982), p. 9-10. This toponym evokes the memory of Carroll William Dodge (1895-1988), botanist at Harvard University.

Dos-de-la-Baleine

Mount

This name was proposed by the Park Administration. This mount strangely resembles the back of the whale as if it had washed up there.

Elie Lister

Mount

Since 2002, this name has evoked the memory of Elie Lister, forest engineer manager of the Hammermill Paper company, which owned logging rights on the territory of the current Matane wildlife reserve in the 1950s. He died in Montreal around 1978.

Ells

Mount

The name Mount Ells recalls the memory of R. Hugh W. Ells (1845-1911), explorer and geologist, who worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. In 1882, Ells traveled up the Sainte-Anne and Madeleine rivers in the Gaspé, and explored the Chic-Chocs mountains. He returned to the same region the following year, accompanied by William E. Logan, this time via the Cascapedia River. It was during these explorations that the first photographs of this territory were taken. On a proposal from the authorities of the Gaspésie Conservation Park, the Commission de toponymie officially attributed, in 1989, the name Ells to a mountain in the region it traveled.

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IAT toponymy Éole

Shelter

In Greek mythology, Aeolus is the master and steward of the winds.

Aeolus appears for the first time in Canto X of the Odyssey, when Ulysses lands at his house: “We reach Aeolia, where the son of Hippotes, dear to the immortal gods, Aeolus, has his home. It is a floating island: a coast of bronze, an unbreakable wall, encircles it entirely; a polished rock pointing to the sky. »

Homer lent him twelve children, six sons and six daughters, whom he had married to each other and who lived lavishly in his palace. After Ulysses had rested for a month with Aeolus, the latter presented him with a sack for his departure, in which "he sewed all the areas of the impetuous winds, for the son of Cronos had made it manager: at his pleasure, he excites them or appeases them”. Ulysse sailed for nine days at a good pace before his jealous crew untied the bag and contrary winds brought him back to Aeolia. But this time, Aeolus chases him away quite sharply: “Decamp! You return under the wrath of the gods! » Source: Wikipedia

Ernest-Ménard

Mount

Ernest Ménard was born on October 13, 1888 in L'Islet. He will be part of the first group of graduate forest engineers. He became founding superintendent of the national parks of Gaspésie (1936) and Mont-Orford (1938).

This name was proposed by the Administration of the park to honor a pioneer in the creation of the park in the 1930s. The latter would have proceeded to the construction of buildings including the famous Gîte du MontAlbert.

Ecological reserve

This ecological reserve, with an area of 7 km², is located south of the city of Cap-Chat, between the Cap-Chat River to the west and the Parc national de la Gaspésie to the east. Its creation by decree on May 10, 1995, aimed to protect the natural environment of this part of the Notre-Dame Mountains. Its name recalls the memory of the American botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald, professor of natural history at Harvard University and editor of the scientific journal Rhodora.

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This geographic division recalls the memory of Fernand Fafard (1882-1940), surveyor and politician who practiced his profession in Abitibi, Haut-Saint-Maurice and Lac-Saint-Jean. He drew several lines of forest concessions on the current territory of the Matane wildlife reserve, in the 1920s. Fafard was also president of the Corporation des arpenteurs-géomètres of the province of Quebec, federal deputy for L'Islet (1917-1940) and senator in 1940, shortly before his death.

IAT toponymy Forillon

National park

Before the creation of the park, the territory had been frequented for several centuries by Amerindians and Europeans. In 1665, at the place called Petit-Gaspé, facing the Bay of Gaspé and immediately to the west of the Forillon peninsula, the French even tried to develop a lead mine but their project had to to be abandoned.

The specific Forillon and its graphic variants date back to the beginning of the colony. Samuel de Champlain indicates in 1626 that "one league from Cap de Gaspey, is a small rock called the farillon (not forillon as generally attributed to Champlain, according to Pierre-Georges Roy, in 1906, published in Geographical Names of the Province of Quebec), a stone's throw away from the earth ”. Father Barthélemy Vimont mentions Forillon de Gaspé in the Relation des Jésuites of 1642. In a manuscript of 1666, it is specified that “Five leagues from Isle Platte is the entrance to Gaspé where there is a forillon on the point. made like a mill barrel with a large rock on top in the shape of a Chaspeau ”. One also finds Forillon in the General Description of the Costes of America (1676) of Dassie, and on the map of 1744 of Nicolas Bellin. Suzelle Blais notes in Contribution de la toponymie ancien ... (1983) that forillon seems to have been entered into French by the Portuguese farilhaom (farilhom) itself borrowed from the Italian faraglioni, a word having the meaning of rock, reef in the sea .

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In this photo of Cap Gaspé in 1969, we can see (white arrow) the base of the Petit Forillon described by Champlain as being “a stone’s throw away from the earth” of which only the base remains today.

(Source : Magazine Gaspésie, avril 2017)

Fortin

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In 1971, the Commission de géographie concluded that the name of the mountain would possibly recall the memory of Pierre Fortin, Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Gaspé in 1867, Commissioner of Crown Lands from 1873 to 1874 and founder of the Société de géographie de Quebec. However, research carried out in 1982 reveals that the name of this mountain was given by J. Franklin Collins and Merritt Lyndon Fernald,

IAT toponymy during their expedition in 1922, in honor of one of their guides Joseph Fortin. The toponym Mont Fortin has been documented on a map since 1954.

Floristic habitat (map)

Fort Péninsule

Fort

This floristic habitat corresponds to the ledges, walls and colluvium of shale cliffs colonized by grassy vegetation, on the steep slopes of Mont Fortin. Covering 0.90 hectares, it sits on public conservation lands within the Fernald Ecological Reserve and approximately 100 meters north of the Mont-Matawees plant habitat. It aims to protect a perennial herbaceous plant, the Dwarf arctic ragwort, a very rare species that the small size of its populations makes vulnerable to any disturbance.

During the Second World War, a fixed battery equipped with two 4.7-inch guns and four 60-inch searchlights was built on the Gaspé Peninsula. There were about fifteen buildings serving as a dormitory with a wardroom, a hospital, a dental clinic, a garage, a workshop, a pumping station, a water tank, an administrative building, a guardhouse, an infantry post, a light artillery unit defending the installation, and a detachment from C Troop of the 105th Coast Battery.

They ensured the protection and handling of the coastal battery in the event of land, air and naval attacks. There were up to 220 servicemen who started operations in 1940 until October 1944.

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Fougères, des

Mount

Its name indicates that the southeastern flank of the mountain is covered in fern fields in several places. The trail offers a superb view of the mountain from a fern field.

Frederika Lensen

Torpedoed boat

Severely hit by a torpedo from the German submarine U-132 on July 20, 1942, the boat was towed into GrandeVallée Bay. Its hull was then exposed to the elements and gradually broke into two sections. The wreck quickly became an obstacle to navigation.

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IAT toponymy In May 1944, the Gagnon brothers (Gagnon & Gagnon - Speciality: oxygen cutting of iron and steel) bought the wreck from the British Ministry of War Transport (who had chartered the ship at the time of the torpedoing) for $300. The Gagnon brothers began dismantling the wreck on July 28, 1944. The following spring, they had to suspend work, as the final costs had exceeded initial estimates. The Canadian Department of Transport refused to provide financial assistance to the Gagnon brothers to complete the dismantling work. Their agreement with the British Ministry of War Transport stipulated that they were to remove all traces of the wreckage within an unspecified timeframe. The Gagnon brothers consider the remaining structures to be a hazard to the many fishing boats plying the bay. The Department of Transport, on the other hand, considers that the wreck is not an obstacle to navigation. The two Cap-Chat entrepreneurs lost a great deal of money in this misadventure, but managed to dismantle a large part of the wreck.

The two sections of the wreck gradually sank into the sediment, disappearing under the water in the late 1960s.

Source : http://www.batailledusaintlaurent.com/capsules-historiques/index.html#frederika

G Gaspé

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City

At the end of the famous Bay of Gaspé, and at the tip of the Gaspé peninsula, nestles the town of Gaspé, with its glorious past. Jacques Cartier planted a cross there during his first trip on July 24, 1534, an event commemorated by a monument made up of six cast iron stelae.

IAT toponymy The tribe that the explorer then encountered called this territory Honguedo, a toponym that recent studies have traced back to a Mi'kmaq word having the meaning "place of gathering". As for the name Gaspé, it gave rise to some hypotheses. According to some, it was attributed to the 16th century by Spanish Basque fishermen who wanted to recall a city from the Kingdom of Aragon, but this theory receives little credit. It should be seen, according to Miren Egaña Goya, a loan from the Basque geizpe, kerizpe, meaning “shelter”, “place of refuge”. Others believe that the name of Portuguese explorer Gaspar de Corte-Real, who explored Labrador in 1500, was distorted in Gaspé. The most widespread version undoubtedly remains that of the Père Pacifique based on the French transposition of the Mi'kmaq gespeg, which translates as "bout", "fin" or "extremity", an allusion to the end of the lands, in Finistère (finis terrae ). The name Gaspay, which was used at the end of the 16th century by the Englishman Richard Hakluyt in his translation of the Cosmosgraphie by Jean Alfonse (14841544), published in 1600, became common at the beginning of the 17th century and gave rise to many graphic variants such as Gachepé, Gachepay, Gaschepay, Gaspey, Gaspay, Gaspèche, Gapèche, etc.

Supplements: Plan for the destruction of the cities Gaspé, 2nd WW Festival Musique du Bout du Monde Gaspésie

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The Parc national de la Gaspésie, covering an area of 802 km², is divided into three major physiographic units: the Chic-Chocs mountains, the McGerrigle mountains and the Sainte-Anne river valley. There are summits culminating at more than 1000 m, therefore among the highest in Eastern Canada, high open plateaus whose flora and vegetation are roughly similar to those found in - beyond the 60th parallel and where a caribou herd can still be observed. These places have attracted scientists for several generations. Dozens of biologists, botanists, geologists, geographers and ecologists followed in the footsteps of geographers William Edmond Logan (17981875) and Alexander Murray (1810-1884), to whom we owe the first designations of the main summits of the sector, in the years 1844 and 1845. In 1937, the creation of Parc national de la Gaspésie was aimed at protecting the panoramic beauty of Mount Albert, Table Mount and McGerrigle Mountains. There was also a desire to ensure the permanent protection of salmon from the Sainte-Anne River as well as caribou and to promote tourism development in the Gaspé.

IAT toponymy Gisant

Locality

Over time, the forces of the sea have sculpted the face of a human profile on the shore, which the tides cover twice a day. Who is this petrified man? A castaway from the St. Lawrence? A divine monument to the memory of the victims of the Empress of Ireland? A tribute to a martyr priest whom the Native Americans roasted, slowly, to prolong the suffering? Nobody knows.

Source : Journal La Presse

Grande Anse

Locality

It is said that a chest was buried in Grande Anse following a shipwreck that occurred during the French Regime. A resident of L'Échouerie, Ovide Cloutier, firmly believed in this legend. He had talked about it to the priest Riou, who liked to play tricks. He went to throw some loose change at the place where excavations had begun. Ovide found these documents and shared them with the priest. The latter then agreed with Baptiste Francoeur so that one evening, when he was on the scene with Ovide, Baptiste appeared before them like a ghost.

In fact, at the agreed time, around midnight, they saw a headless man coming towards them who was none other than Baptiste wearing his jacket... Ovide, livid with fear, became obsessed with the spirit of treasure and the Abbé Riou suggested that he have the place blessed by parish priest Morris of Rivière-au-Renard. What was done. The cove became Anse au Trésor.

(Source : ‘Les plages et les grèves de la Gaspésie’ de Josée Kaltenback, ed. Fides )

Grande-Grave

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Frequented since the 17th century by a few hundred seasonal fishermen, this place, very conducive to cod fishing, was chosen by the brothers Francis and Philip Janvrin, originally from the island of Jersey, to set up a fishing establishment there. the end of the 18th century. Coming from the lower Latin grava, sand, gravel, the name of GrandeGrave was first used to identify the large pebble beach where cod was dried. The name was then extended to designate all the equipment related to fishing and housing. At the same time, we also found the name of Grande-Grève which prevailed for a long time thereafter. A post office by that name was opened there in 1852 - probably at the same time as the Saint-Augustin mission, which had twenty Canadian families in 1863 - and lasted until 1969, the year before the park was created. National Forillon which led to the displacement of the population. According to Maxime St-Amour in his guide to Forillon National Park (1984), two hypotheses

IAT toponymy would explain this shift: "an awkward idea of wanting to Frenchize a term which however does not need it" or "we wanted to write well in French the name as pronounced in English, the word serious in English being pronounced strike ”.

Grand-Étang

Pond

At the end of the 17th century, attempts were made to use incombustible building materials because fires often ravaged the wooden or thatched constructions of the French colony. In 1728, a slate quarry was opened at GrandÉtang. Slate was extracted and used in several constructions in Quebec and Montreal. The adventure ended in 1733; slate was very expensive to extract; it broke when frozen and often broke when drilled.

(Source : ‘Les plages et les grèves de la Gaspésie’ de Josée Kaltenback, ed. Fides)

Grande-Vallée

Village

Grande-Vallée is an old toponym, because it was first attributed to the seigneury granted by Governor General Frontenac, in 1691, to François Hazeur under the appellation La Grande-Vallée-des-Monts, and probably taken from that from the river. The cartographer Nicolas Bellin also makes it appear on a map of 1744. Over the centuries, this place name has undergone some modifications both in English, "Gt Valley", and in French, Grand Vallée. The majority of commentators agree in affirming that it is the presence of a large very fertile valley formed by the river which gave rise to this denomination. Grande-Vallée is opposed to Petite-Vallée, further east, a valley that hardly exceeds the size of a cove.

The mission of Saint-François-Xavier-de-Grande-Vallée, founded in 1846, only obtained official parish status in 1926, thanks to its canonical erection. The municipality, whose name is identical to that of the post office established in 1872, will however be erected under the name Municipalité de la Grande-Vallée - usage not retaining the initial article - and constitutes a parish municipality of which the status was not officially recognized until 1995. In 2005, the municipality of the parish of Grande-Vallée became the municipality of Grande-Vallée. In the 19th century, we can commonly find the Grande-Vallée-des-Monts form.

---The region is frequented with the seventeenth century by the Micmacs. An ax that belonged to the St. Lawrence Iroquoians was also discovered. In 1691, Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, Governor of New France, granted the seigneury of Grande-Vallée-des-Monts-Notre-Dame to François Hazeur, a wealthy merchant from Quebec.

This then extended to the seigneury of Rivière-Magdeleine to the west, and to the east to that of the cove of the pond (Saint-Hélier portage). On his death, François Hazeur gave the seigneury of Grande-Vallée-des-Monts as an inheritance to Michel Sarazin, the king's surgeon, married to his daughter. In September 1758, Wolfe's troops captured a Frenchman at Grande-Vallée. It is the deportation of the Gaspé.

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IAT toponymy Gros-Morne

Village

Gros-Morne's historical name, however, was Grand-Male (1728), also written Masle, Mâle, and Gros-Male (1758).

This word alluded to the mountain jutting out from the shore in the direction of the St. Lawrence.

From a linguistic point of view, the word male belongs to the pre-Romanesque radical mâl meaning rocky eminence. Towards the end of the 19th century, the toponym was locally distorted, especially in Gros-Mâle because the historic name displeased the residents of the place.

The word morne, a West Indian term taken from the Spanish morro, mound, rock, goes back to a pre-Romanic radical murr, in the sense of eminence. The term was introduced in New France by explorers. In 1754, Chaussegros de Léry mentioned in his diary the toponym Gros Morne Pellé, at Lake Erie.

H Hélène

Waterfall

The name, used since 1980 or before, refers to a probably female mountaineer, who was the first to reach this fall of Mem Creek, in July 1974, accompanying a prospector from the Imperial Oil company.

Mount

Mount Jacques-Cartier dominates the Chic-Chocs massif and thrones precisely in the western part of the McGerrigle mountains. Its small extent of about 1 km, both in length and width, is however compensated by its altitude of 1270 m, one of the highest in Quebec. On the sides of this important dome-shaped mountain where rare plant specimens flourish, there is a tiered boreal, subarctic and alpine vegetation that a team of American botanists studied in 1923. Before its current name, it was known as d ' elsewhere this mountain under the name Botanist's Dome or Pic des Botanistes. Nature interpretation trails were subsequently built to the top, where a radio communication tower was installed during World War II.

J Jacques-Cartier

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IAT toponymy On a proposal from the Geographic Commission of Canada, this toponym was adopted on May 7, 1934 to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival in Canada of Jacques Cartier. Probable companion of Verrazzano in America, in 1524 and 1528, Cartier ventured into the New World in 1534, commissioned by François Ier to find gold and a passage to Asia. During this first trip, he did not pass Anticosti Island, explored the Baie des Chaleurs and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. During his second voyage in 1535, during which he went to Hochelaga (Montreal), he wintered at Stadaconé (Quebec). On August 15, after having left the western tip of Anticosti Island, he learned of lands that remained "towards the south which is a land of marvelous mountain peaks", these high lands being those which plunge into the sea. around the Saint-Louis and Saint-Pierre mountains.

In 1541, Cartier, under the orders of Roberval, established the first French colony in America. He settled on the left bank, at the mouth of the Cap Rouge river, where he built two forts communicating with each other, one at the bottom of the promontory, the other above. He went a second time to Hochelaga, then returned to CapRouge where he spent the winter. When Jacques Cartier left the colony at the beginning of June 1542, Roberval had been on his way to Canada since the middle of April. The two men met in Newfoundland in mid-June. Invited

by Roberval to follow him to Cap-Rouge, Cartier abandoned him and left Newfoundland during the night of June 18-19 and arrived in Saint-Malo at the beginning of September. In France, Cartier had to admit that its gold found in Canada was iron pyrite and its diamonds, quartz or mica.

Supplements: Geology Mount Jacques-Cartier et The enigma of the radar. 2nd WW Jacques-Ferron

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The presence in this part of Quebec of the name of Jacques Ferron (1921-1985), doctor and writer born in Louiseville, is explained by the fact that he practiced medicine in SainteMadeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine from 1946 to 1948 before setting up his practice south of Montreal. Pamphleteer, biting and ironic humorist, he has produced an abundant literary work in many genres: theater, tale, novel, autobiography, history, essay. Recipient of the Governor General's Prize in 1962 and the France-Québec and Duvernay Prizes in 1972, Jacques Ferron received, in 1977, the David Prize for his body of work.

IAT toponymy Jean-Yves Bérubé

Mount

Since 2002, this name evokes the memory of Jean-Yves Bérubé, founder of several companies and organizations in this region, including the Société Boisbuisson with Jimmy Russell (mining prospecting from 1963 to 1983 in the Chic-Chocs and McGerrigle mountains, which led to the discovery of the copper deposit which was exploited by Mines Madeleine and which favored the economy of Saint-Anne-des-Monts); -Héli-Ski Gaspésie in the Chic-Chocs Mountains (1985 to 1990); -the Corporation de la Ligue navale de Cap-Chat (1972 to 1996) which developed a summer camp for cadets in the closed village of Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir; -the Sainte-Octave-de-l'Avenir folklore festival (1975 to 1978).

Jean-Yves Bérubé was mayor of Cap-Chat from 1993 to 1996. He was born in Cap-Chat in 1928 and he died on December 11, 1996.

Jimmy-Russell

Mount

Since 2002, this name has evoked the memory of James-Gordon Russell, colloquially known as Jimmy Russell, the president-manager of the James Richardson Co. Ltd. in Cap-Chat from 1934 to 1976. At 36, he succeeded his father, John Stewart (Johnie) Russell, in this company founded by retired geologist James Richardson (the same as "Mount Richardson") in 1878 for his son-in-law, Scottish-born James Russell. The J. R. Co. owned several wood mills and had acquired forest concessions on the territory of today's Réserve faunique de Matane and in several townships between Matane and Cap-Chat. Le rappelé contributed to the economic development of the region through its ambition to make Cap-Chat a major center (between 1934 and 1965, the population almost tripled). The company was Gaspésie's biggest industry in the 1950s. It closed in 1976. Probably born in Matane on August 16, 1900, Jimmy Russell died in CapChat, where he spent his life, in February 1981.

Fall logging 2022.

(Seen from Mont-Blanc) Photo : Eddy Pellerin

John-A.-Allen (Arthur-Allen)

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Its name recalls the memory of John Alpheus Allen (1863-1916), said John A. Allen, American botanist. In 1881 and 1882, he took part in expeditions to the Gaspé, notably to the territory of what is nowadays the Parc national de la Gaspésie, to carry out research on the botany of the place. In 1883 he published the work entitled Alpine flora of the province of Quebec; publication which has attracted the attention of other prestigious botanists. The name is Arthur-Allen on the maps.

IAT toponymy Joseph-Fortin

Mount

This name was proposed by the Park Administration. “Born in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, he was a coureur des bois and mountain guide for the entire territory of the park. He participated in Fernald's expeditions in 1905 and 1906 and 1923. It is said that he had a facility to herbalis and assimilate the Latin names of plants. This name was proposed to highlight the efforts of an authentic mountain guide. He died on May 30, 1960 »

KL Kempt

Road, Wind farm

Before the mission was founded, the territory of Sainte-Marguerite was known as Kempt Road, reminiscent of the old Kempt military road which allowed the colonization of the Matapédia valley which was built in 1830 by Governor James Kempt.

Source : Héritage Chemin Kempt

La Longue Pointe

Locality

La Longue Pointe is a kind of peninsula jutting into the river. This strip of land where the Théâtre de la Vieille Forge is located today has been inhabited since the 1860s. Régis Roy and his wife Émilie Brochu were the first to settle there. Their son-in-law Narcisse LeBreux settled there with his family in 1877.

L’Anse-au-Griffon

Locality

The name "Rivière au Griffon" appears in the list of concessions in seigneuries of New France in 1636. The name of Anse au Griffon appears in 1652 in the title of the concession of the seigneury of Cap-des-Rosiers ( sic) and noted on Franquelin's map (1685).

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IAT toponymy The area was inhabited towards the end of the 18th century.

The forms “Griffin” (simple translation of Griffon) and “Gris-Fond” appeared towards the end of the 18th century. The place name was then explained by allusion to the gray tone of the seabed. It has also often been published that the name would come from the name of a boat "Le Griffon" which would have made cabotage in this place.

However, if we look carefully at the aforementioned dates, we see that these interpretations would be wrong. The river bore this name before the cove and before the habitation by fishermen and therefore before a boat came to supply.

The name may refer rather to the presence of a raptor (ex. Osprey) active at the mouth of the river as can still be seen today. At that time, this raptor was possibly called a "griffin" in reference to this chimerical winged animal with the head of a bird of prey and impressive talons, which at the time was often used as a figurative element in the coat of arms as well as on the bow of boats.

(Source : Magazine Gaspésie, avril-juillet 2017)

L'Anse-à-Valleau

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Village

The name Anse à Valleau first identified the reentrant of the coast of the place. An uninterrupted oral tradition traces this place name back to Pierre Valleau - a family name more rarely spelled Vallot, Valo, Vallo, Valeau inhabitant of Percé at the end of the 17th century.

IAT toponymy L'Anse Pleureuse

Village

This name dates back to at least the beginning of the 19th century since an 1837 hydrographic map indicates “Pleureuse Pt.”, To the east of the Olives stream. The authors attribute a legendary origin to this toponym: the first settlers, hearing tears and complaints coming out of the forest, attributed them to souls or ghosts.

More prosaically, the sound of tree branches agitated by the wind would explain this geographical name.

L’Anse-Pleureuse, 1927 Lemesurier

Lake

Logan

Mount

Its name recalls the memory of a captain named Ahier. He lived in Grande-Grave, now a locality on the Forillon peninsula in the national park of the same name, on the north side of Gaspé Bay. A number of nearby lakes also bear the names of former captains who settled in Grande-Grave.

Mount Logan is, in a way, a watchtower of the Gaspé conservation park since it is its western limit. Along with the Albert, Jacques-Cartier, McGerrigle and many others, it is part of the high narrow plateau, aligned parallel to the St. Lawrence, called the Chic-Chocs Mountains. Rising more like a rock face on the north side, Mont Logan stretches gently on its southern slope from which originate, on both sides, the Ouellet stream and the Cap-Chat Est river which feed the Cap-Chat river.

It is by this river besides that Alexander Murray and William Edmond Logan will arrive at the mountain which will take later the name of the latter, much against his will, it is said. This expedition, carried out in the summer of 1844, was part of a prospecting campaign aimed at the discovery of coal, this precious mineral resource of the time. However, this was unsuccessful in this respect but helped to compile several useful topographical and geological data.

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IAT toponymy Attributed in 1898 in the first report of the Geographical Survey of Canada, the use of the name Mount Logan had already been used for a long time to identify this mountain in the Gaspé. Taché had written it down in 1870 on his map.

Self-taught geologist and cartographer, Sir William Edmond Logan (Montreal, 1798 Cilgerram Wales, 1875) will mark the history of the geology of Canada after having contributed greatly to that of Wales in Great Britain. Left at 16 to study in Edinburgh, he enrolled in medicine but abandoned his studies after the first year. He would become an accountant for his uncle, Hart Logan, whose business was in mining and building materials including stone. The field interested him enough to stay there twenty years during which he developed his talents as a draftsman, cartographer and geologist, talents which were recognized by his election in 1837 to the Geological Society of London.

In 1842, he returned to Montreal to fill the post of geologist of the province of Canada - corresponding to the southern parts of the present provinces of Quebec and Ontario - whose main task was to organize and direct the Geological Survey of Canada. , a post he held until 1869. In 1863, he published his important reference work Geology of Canada, which is still essential today for geologists. The ensuing atlas of geological maps and his contribution to the development of this science in Canada earned him, in 1867, the Royal Gold Medal awarded by the Royal Society of London. Eleven years earlier he had been knighted by Queen Victoria.

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Floristic habitat (map)

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This 163 ha plant habitat was created to protect Griscom's Amica and Alpine Athyria. The plant habitat is located on the northeast slopes of Mount Logan and the northwest slopes of Mount Griscom in Gaspésie national park. At an altitude of 1150 m, Mount Logan constitutes a park watchtower since it is its western limit. Its name recalls William Edmond Logan, who explored this region in the summer of 1844, along with Alexander Murray. Selftaught geologist and cartographer born in Montreal in 1798, Logan will mark the history of Canadian geology.

IAT toponymy Louis-Marie Lalonde

Mount

This name was proposed by the Park Administration to honor the first French-Canadian botanist to herbalize in the Mount Logan region. He was born on October 16, 1896, died in 1978.

Professor at the Institut d'Oka, he founded in 1926 the Revue d'Oka. He wrote several scientific writings in botany. In 1962, he sold his herbarium of 100,000 specimens to the Faculty of Agriculture of Laval University. He has herbalised twice in the Mount Logan area

Loupes, des

Mount

This name was proposed by the Park Administration. Burls are woody growths with a very contorted structure and most often occurring on the trunk of a tree. The trail that crosses the mountain allows you to observe several spruce trees while owning.

Village

This name was first attributed to the stream on the edge of which a sword pommel had been found. It is said that René Pelchat, a postillion originally from Beaumont, had made this discovery on the eastern point of the stream, around 1850. The Manched'Épée stream flows over a distance of 7.5 km, to the hamlet located at its mouth.

Ecological reserve

This territory of some 460 ha was established as an ecological reserve by decree on April 11, 1984. Its creation aimed in particular to protect a maple-yellow birch grove located in a territory characterized by high plateaus. Its subsoil is marked by the presence of rocks belonging to the Middle and Upper Ordovician and composed of limestone, slate and schist.

M Manche d'Epée

Small streams run down on each of the rocky slopes, namely, to the east, the Coulée à Stanislas and, to the West, the Coulées à Édouard and de la Sucrerie, the Grande Cavée and the Lac à Raphaël outlet.

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IAT toponymy Matane

City, river, lake

As with many Native toponyms, the name Matane gives rise to certain divergent interpretations. What is unanimous is that the river first received this name from Champlain in 1603, in the form of Mantanne. According to the most commonly accepted version, it should be considered that this is the Mi'kmaq mtctan, "beaver pond", especially since according to ancient sources the beaver, there too, once abounded there. Other people believe, according to the testimony of a Native American, that it should be seen the meaning, in Maliseet, of "spinal cord through the vertebrae of the backbone", an interpretation which is based on the fact that the Matane river descends from land, between hills and mountains, without rapids, over a considerable distance. Others compare this word to mattawa, matawin, meaning "meeting of the waters". Father Guinard, for his part, sees it as the abbreviation of matandipives, that is to say “wrecks”, “ship debris”, meaning justified by the peculiarities of the current in front of Matane.

Located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, 400 km from Quebec, 64 km from Sainte-Flavie, at the entrance to the Gaspé Peninsula, a position that earned it the title of Porte de la Gaspésie, Matane was created in 1893 First identified as the village of Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane, taken from the name of the parish officially established in 1861, but dating back to the 17th century, the town received its current name and status in 1937. The Jérôme element alluded to Father Jérôme Demers (1774-1853), Vicar General of Quebec (1825-1853). The place conceals a rich past since it was frequented by Cartier, Jean Alfonse, Champlain, and that the Whites settled there in 1795, although Micmacs lived there until 1845. It is also necessary to reckon with the presence of the Rochelais from 1534 to 1672 who carried out fishing activities there. Each year, “this rather nice place” (Samuel de Champlain) is the scene of the Shrimp Festival.

Matapédia

City

This descriptive toponym comes from the Mi'kmaq word matapegiag, which means river which forms a fork, junction of rivers. It reflects the geographical location of the places where the Matapedia flows into the Restigouche. The formants mata, junction and pegiag, river give a good account of this phenomenon. The meanings of musical river and volume of water flowing from a large pond have also been advanced, but these interpretations do not stand up to analysis. The toponym Matapedia was also mentioned under the spelling Matapediach, Matapeguia, Matapediac in documents from the 17th century, and later Matakpediack or Madapeguia.

It is in these places that the colonization of the Matapedia valley began with the successive arrival of the Loyalists - labeled as squatters (1808) -, the Irish (1850), the Acadians (1860) and the French Canadians ( 1865). The importance, for the Matapédiens, of the Matapedia river which divides the village in two, is measured by the reputation of international dimension of salmon river which it shares with the Ristigouche. Moreover, the identification plates of the streets of the village take the shape of a salmon, a visual transposition of this considerable and precious local wealth. To protect the salmon richness of the river, the government has established a wildlife reserve on part of its course, the Réserve faunique de la Rivière-Matapédia.

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IAT toponymy Saint-Laurent Church was built in 1902 and 1903 by architect Joseph Doucet. Eclectic in style, it is one of the oldest places of worship in the region. It was cited as a heritage building in 2005 by the municipality of Matapédia.

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River

With a length of approximately 80 km, the Matapédia River is oriented south-southeast and flows in the valley of the same name which crosses the Appalachians. It feeds on Matapédia Lake located 25 km south of the St. Lawrence, as well as the Causapscal and Assemetquagan rivers on its left bank and the Humqui, Milnikek and du Moulin rivers on its right bank. It is framed by a relief located around 425 m and can reach peaks of 640 m east of Causapscal and even 960 m west of Matapédia Lake.

A good part of the river is located in the Rivières-Matapédia-et-Patapédia wildlife reserve. The river is famous for salmon fishing thanks to its 138 pools and rapids. In fact, between 3,000 and 5,000 salmon go up the Matapédia River annually.

Matawees

Mount

Matawees, a Mi'kmaq name meaning porcupine, was attributed by geologist William E. Logan in 1844. This explorer writes in fact: “another mountain, to which we gave the name of Mattaouisse, a word which, in Mi'kmaq, means a porcupine, for the reason that we had killed one of these animals ”.

Floristic habitat

This plant habitat corresponds to the ridges, ravines and cornices of the schist cliffs of Mount Matawees. Covering an area of 26.41 hectares, it is located on public land dedicated to conservation, within the Fernald Ecological Reserve and approximately 100 meters south of the Mont-Fortin plant habitat. The habitat is difficult to access, which makes it easier to protect a perennial herbaceous plant, Griscom's Arnica, a species endemic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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McGerrigle

Mountain range

The McGerrigle Mountains, constituents of the Chic-Chocs Mountains, cover an approximate area of 100 km² at the western limit of Murdochville, in the northeast of the Gaspé. These elevations, dominated by Mont JacquesCartier at 1,268 m, form the highest mountain range in this part of eastern Canada. Formerly called Tabletop, the massif officially bears its current name since 1965, in honor of the geologist Harold William McGerrigle (19041970).

Born in Ormstown, Montérégie, geologist McGerrigle acquired his training at McGill (Montreal) and Princeton (New Jersey) universities. During his career in the service of the government of Quebec, from 1937 to 1970, McGerrigle held, in particular, the position of director of the Service of geological exploration and carried out, mainly from 1939 to 1959, important work covering the Gaspé peninsula. . He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Geological Association of Canada, and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He died in Quebec on November 9, 1970.

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IAT toponymy Mem

Brook

Used since 1946 or before, the name referred to the watercourse starting from Coleman and Bardey lakes and flowing into the Cap-Chat river. Now he identifies the upstream section of the old Mem creek, until it meets Bascon creek. The name could be a deformation of the English word "men" , which referred to men working in forest sites.

Milieu, du

Mount

Mont du Milieu (“Middle”) is located equidistant between Mont Jacques-Cartier in the far east and Mont Logan in the far west. It offers a magnificent viewpoint from which you can clearly see the Jacques-Cartier and Logan mountains. So we really have the impression of being in the middle of the park.

Moise, à

Table

Gaspé plateau of the Chic-Chocs mountains corresponding to the summit of Mont Albert, it covers the space between the Albert Nord summit and the Albert Sud summit. The plateau roughly takes the shape of a bean seed, the ends of which are some 5.5 km apart. Its average absolute altitude is 1,086 m. The geology of the Table à Moïse consists of a serpentine plateau with steep edges and surrounded by an amphibolite ring. There are peatlands that develop in basins and a network of small lakes linked by tiny streams. In the midst of boreal vegetation, the Table à Moïse forms an island of tundra.

In the 1974 Quebec Yearbook, the ecologist Pierre Dansereau described the places in these terms: "The dry paving stones of the serpentine have their interstices filled by an abundant flora of armeries, lychnis, stellars, saxifrage, while the shrubs creepers, rhododendrons, willows and dwarf birches, tend to further disrupt the stones. This environment is enriched where the drainage is less good, where the soil is deeper, so much so that lowbush blueberries dominate and form a fairly dense tundra, often covered with a carpet of brown and woolly moss. The most luxuriant vegetation, however, is represented by a very green lawn of sedges, studded with light-colored flowers (arnica, speedwell, bellflower). The rocky scree and the outcrops shelter ferns, lycopods and heather in their interstices. " The name Table à Moïse appears in an article in the daily newspaper Le Soleil in Quebec in June 1971, in the words of a guide reported by the journalist. The origin is unknown. Nothing lets us suppose that this toponym has a relation with the Tables of the Law that Yahweh dictated to Moses. The Geography Commission formalized this name in 1975. The term table, used in its geographical sense of a flattened top, mentioned in French-language dictionaries, is rare in the geographical nomenclature of Quebec. In addition to this plateau, we particularly know the Table à Roland, a name which designates the tabular summit of Mont Sainte-Anne in Percé.

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This plant habitat corresponds to the ledges and crevices of the limestone cliffs of Roche mountain, located in the Forillon peninsula. Covering 58.77 hectares, it sits on public conservation lands within Forillon National Park, a federal park. The site is difficult to access, which makes it easier to protect a perennial herbaceous plant, the Dwarf arctic ragwort, a very rare species that its small populations make it vulnerable to any disturbance.

IAT toponymy Mont Saint-Pierre

Ecological reserve

This ecological reserve is located in an impressive glacial valley, in the heart of the municipality of Mont-SaintPierre, east of the river of the same name. It covers an area of 6 km² and its territory is made up of a set of mountainous reliefs, including Mont François-Ouellet in the south, Montagne du Blond in the west and Mont Alexis-Ouellet in the north. These three names recall the memory of local pioneers. Created by decree on January 17, 2001, this ecological reserve aims to protect highly friable geological formations dominated by argillaceous shales, and more specifically the resulting vegetation. In addition, this territory includes fir forests with yellow birch and white birch as well as a stand of cedar.

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Village

Previously, the place which became a municipality in 1947 was called “Rivière-àPierre” (which explains the confusion generated at a certain time with Rivière-àPierre, in Portneuf), an appellation which appears on a map by Gédéon de Catalogne in 1723 “R. à Pierre” and on a cartographic document by Pierre Russell in 1861, while the Rivière Pierre form adorns a map by Joseph Bouchette in 1815. The element Pierre undoubtedly comes from the imposing rocky cliffs that make up the landscape and the vicinity of Mont-Louis, although some tend to think that it could be a first name, the preposition to appearing frequently in toponyms with anthroponymic components: Barachois in Montpetit, Côte à Gagnon, Lac à Armand. The first inhabitants of Mont-Saint-Pierre settled in these places in 1858, the territory then being attached to Mont-Louis.

Mur des Patrouilleurs

Locality

The name " Mur des Patrouilleurs " has been in use since the early 1990s. Its name was assigned to it by park patrollers. He identifies a steep wall of 30° to 45° overlooking the Devil's Valley, on one of the slopes of Mount Albert, very popular with downhill skiing enthusiasts.

Musard

Brook

In memory of Father Louis Musard, born in France in 1806, Sulpician, professor at the seminary of Montreal in 1842. This toponym appeared on a handwritten map dated 1963.

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N Nicol-Albert

Mount

The origin of this toponym remains enigmatic. During the summer of 1844, William Logan and his assistant Alexander Murray were the first to carry out geological explorations in this region. Painfully climbing Mount Nicol-Albert, Logan then baptizes him Bonhomme as his report indicates, "from the existence of a large stone as if lifted up on a step of his inclination, in the attitude of a man who would spy on him. what would happen below ”. The first written mentions of the toponyms “NicolAlbert” and “Frère de Nicol-Albert” were provided by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman. The account of his explorations in 1918 mentions that local guides have always identified the Bonhomme de Logan as Nicolabert - and not Nicol-Albert -. Nicol-Albert may be the result of the English expression nick of Albert, which became Nicol Albert in the mouths of guides. The English word nick means notch and breach which corresponds to the local topography, the Cap-Chat river separating the two mountains by a rather remarkable gorge.

Nid d'Aigle, du

Mount

Its name recalls that there are golden eagles that have been nesting on the mountain since at least 1926.

Notre-Dame

Mountain range

The Notre-Dame Mountains are the hills of the Appalachian chain that stretch downstream from Quebec City, along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River to the Gaspé Peninsula. Running parallel to the river, these rolling hills and plateaus often reach altitudes of 600 to 700 meters.

The origins of the Monts Notre-Dame go back to Jacques Cartier's expedition of August 15, 1535: "Le landemain jour Notre Dame d'aoust XVe [...] eusmes congnoissance de terres qui nous demouroient vers le su qui est une terre à haultes montaignes à merveilles". Instead, he named these mountains "haultes montaignes de Honguedo". The toponym "monts Notre-Dame" was, however, the one that took root.

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Ste-Anne-des-Monts

O Olivine

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Mount

This name was proposed by the Park Administration. It appears on geologist maps. This toponym comes from the fact that a researcher found olivine near Mount Albert. This crescent-shaped deposit extends over a distance of 8,000 feet (2 438m) and has a maximum width of 3,000 feet (914m).

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P Passe, de la

Mount

This name was proposed by the administration of the Parc de conservation de la Gaspésie. It would possibly have been used for a very long time by the Amerindians. This region of the McGerrigle Mountains being very rugged, there is an opening near this mountain where one can cross the mountain range.

Penouille

Hamlet

In the first half of the 18th century, Pierre Revol, a merchant from Quebec, had built a trading post on the Penouille peninsula since the bay offered a safe shelter for ships of all tonnage. Many archival and cartographic documents from this period actually mention the presence of "Penouille". Over the years, this toponym has been used under different spellings: "Penouille", "Pensuïlle", "Penouil", "Penisle", "Peninsuala", "Peninsula", "Peninsule".

Some historical texts, preserved in the National Archives of France, (navy funds) and traced by Jean Poirier, attest to the age of the toponym. Let us quote among others, this excerpt from 1732: "that however the best anchorage is to go wet at 6 o'clock (sic) of the evening in the bottom of the bay called penouille".

On the map of Laubenierre (1746) entitled “Idée de la Baye de Gaspé”, the location of Penouille is clearly indicated. The legend of this map states: "... The Bay of Gaspé is about 2 and a half leagues wide, deprived of the fourillon at Isle St-Pierre, it has only one and a quarter two leagues higher. There is in this place a bature of sand and gravel, which comes from the south, and leaves for channel only a third of a league. It forms in the diffuse of this bay a basin which is called Penouille, being ¾ of a league in all fens: winds of any size can anchor there and they make there in safety of any wind. La Baye then divides into two branches ... " In 1757, an unknown cartographer pointed out the “Baye de Gaspé” and located the “Banc de Penouil”. The following year, Captain Bell, aide-de-camp to General Wolfe, draws a map on which he places the “Penisle”, the English form of “Penouille”.

After the passage of English soldiers and the destruction of French fishing establishments, John Collins, a surveyor commissioned by the new colonial government to draw up a map of Gaspé Bay, called Penouille, "Peninsuala", which would later become "Peninsula" ". Finally, on his, in 1773, Lange inscribed “Fon de Penouille”. According to Mario Mimeault, all other 19th century maps use the toponym of surveyor Collins to identify this whaling site.

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IAT toponymy As for the very origin of the term "Penouille", it comes, according to Pierre-Georges Roy, from Basque fishermen, for whom this word meant "peninsula".

Its name recalls that two logging roads had been made which joined at the top to carry out logging operations and where logging camps had been built. Loggers from the Matane River would cut poles there to make gaffs. A telecommunications relay tower from the Ministry of Communications was in operation there until around 1998.

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Mount

Petchedetz

Mount

Its name recalls that the mountain is located near the Duvivier River, which was formerly called Rivière Petchedetz. The use of this toponym, the meaning of which we do not know, is relatively old. In his survey report of 1862, J. A. Bradley gives to this toponym the forms Petcheditz and Pechedety. The Description des cantons arpentés ... (1889) indicates the current form Petchedetz in the report of the surveyor C.-S. Lepage (1881) while the English edition of this survey report still uses the Petcheditz variant. We also note the form Petchedec, attributed to the lake as well as to the river, in the Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec by Eugène Rouillard (1914).

Petite-Vallée

Village

It owes its descriptive name to its location in the hollow of a small valley, at the mouth of the Petite Vallée river.

Although the municipal erection only dates back to 1957, the name Petite-Vallée already appears on a map by Bellin of 1754 and in the English form Little Valley in a document by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, before being attributed to the office. post commissioned in 1885.

Pic Bleu

Mount

Its name describes the conical shape of its top and the bluish color of the spruce trees found there.

Pics, des

Mount

The name has been used locally since 1998, it describes the “exceptional panorama that this mountain offers over the surrounding mountains”. The mountain, included in the larger set of the Chic-Chocs mountains, adjoins Lac des Pics and is part of four peaks starting from the North Madeleine river and extending eastward.

Pointe-à-la-Frégate

Locality

This point projects into the St. Lawrence River in front of the hamlet of Pointe-à-la-Frégate. Its name refers to the sinking of an English frigate, the Penelope, on the night of April 30 to May 1, 1815.

Pointe aux Anglais

Point

Its name recalls a historical event, the sinking of part of the fleet of British Admiral Hovenden Walker (circa 1656circa 1725) during the night of August 22 to 23, 1711. Having received the order to seize Quebec, he had sailed from Boston at the end of July with a powerful armada convoying 12,000 men. However, a violent storm rose on the St. Lawrence River on the night of August 22 to 23. Part of the fleet then crashed on the reefs of Pointe aux Anglais and Île aux Œufs, prompting Hovenden Walker to abandon the expedition. Nearly 900 soldiers and sailors drowned that night.

Pointe-à-laRenommée

Locality

The historic Phare de Pointe-à-la-Renommée site, built in 1904 as a lighthouse and as the radio-maritime station of Guglielmo Marconi, discoverer of radio. The Pointe-à-la-Renommée site was developed by the citizens of L’Anse-

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IAT toponymy à-Valleau in 1992, where the citizens took on the mission of reviving Pointe-à-la-Renommée and repatriating its lighthouse. They created a circuit reconstructing life at the time when the site was an essential communication center surrounded by three fishing stations: La Coulée-à-Zéphyr, Ruisseau-à-L’Air and Canne-de-Roches. The lighthouse was finally repatriated in 1997, after twenty years of exile in the old port of Quebec. Today, we take the paths on the capes from where a magnificent panoramic view opens onto the sea. We often see whales and seals.

Pointe du Wrack

Locality

The Manche d'Épée fishing post begins its existence when a boat runs aground on the plains, within sight of its inhabitants. According to a witness at the time, it was on December 10, 1867, that the Woodstock broke on a rocky point about a kilometer west of the river. One can imagine the shock that this disaster causes in the hamlet.

In a particularly harsh winter, this is the second grounding to occur in less than a dozen days on the north shore of the Gaspé Peninsula: on November 30, a first sailboat called Swordfish crashed under the nearby capes. de GrandMasle - the name of Gros-Morne at that time. The sailor André Castagne, victim of severe frostbite, left us a precise and gripping account of the tragedy entitled Histoire d'un vieux marin. The fate of the survivors of both ships is inextricably linked. However, the Woodstock drama reveals areas of ambiguity that have not been clarified.

Premier lac des îles

Floristic habitat (map)

This 6.31 ha plant habitat was created to protect Griscom's Arnica. The name of the habitat located on the territory of Parc national de la Gaspésie, refers to the lake located just to the south, the Premier lac des îles. This irregularly shaped lake contains a dozen islets.

R Restigouche

River

The Restigouche River, over 200 km long, begins in New Brunswick, 35 km northeast of Edmundston. It first flows to the southeast, then turns steeply to the northeast, serving as the border between Quebec and New Brunswick for the last 100 kilometers of its course.

In July 1534, Jacques Cartier, exploring the Baie des Chaleurs, went to the mouth of the Ristigouche river, which he did not however name. Champlain, on his 1632 map, gives this important hydrographic entity the name Rivière de Chaleu. The Jesuit father Barthélemy Vimont, in his Relation of 1642, does not speak of the watercourse either, but mentions the name Baie de Chaleurs which designates the bay called Restgoch by the Amerindians of the surroundings. Pierre-Emmanuel Jumeau indicates, on a map of 1685, the names R. S. Joseph and Richtigouch. The double designation of Rivière Saint-Joseph, known as Ristigouche, appears in the Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspésie by Chrestien Le Clercq (1691). A map by Herman Moll (1715) indicates this watercourse under the name R. Sauveur. The Ristigouche spelling, used in particular by Nicolas Denys (1672), Monsignor de Saint-Vallier (1688), Bellin (1744) and the father of La Brosse (1771), is preferred by French-speaking

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Father Pacifique wrote in 1927 in Le pays des Micmacs that "This name was given to the river and to the whole region by former chief Tonel (Tonnerre), in memory of the extermination of a party of Iroquois, whose signal he had given with this cry: Listo gotj, disobey your father ”. Other authors have left us with different interpretations of the toponym: "place for spring fun", "river of the long war", "river divided like a hand", "small wood", "small tree", "theater of the great squirrel quarrel ”,“ river with five fingers ”,“ with five branches ”,“ with many branches ”,“ river suitable for canoeing ”,“ beautiful river ”and“ which flows well, without obstruction ”.

Supplement video : Magnificent Restigouche river

Richardson

Mount

This ancient name evokes the memory of geologist James Richardson (1810-1883), who explored the Gaspé Peninsula in 1858 for the Geological Survey of Canada. Richardson, who died in Matane, contributed to the advancement of geology, notably by enriching the collection of mineral specimens and introducing photography to geological exploration. His name appears on a 1925 geological map.

Rivière-au-Renard

Village

Built around a large cove occupied by a barachois, was already known in the 17th century, perhaps even before, as a seasonal fishing station. This establishment, inhabited by about twenty families in 1836, was served by mission from 1854 to 1858. Historically, fishing has been the basis of Rivière-au-Renard's economy. However, alongside this activity, the inhabitants also engaged in agriculture. Nowadays, it is still fishing which is the predominant economic activity of this village which borrows its name from the "Grande R. au Renard", already identified in this way during the first half of the 18th century, as evidenced by maps of Nicolas Bellin of 1744 and of Sieur d'Anville of 1755.

Widely used in local toponymy, the word fox is also found to designate the river, the village of Petite-Rivière-auRenard, the hamlet of Val-Renard and the Rivière-au-Renard-Ouest sector. It evokes the red fox, once abundant in the region. A remarkable coincidence, the Renard River crosses the township of Fox - in French renard - erected in 1842, whose name recalls Charles James Fox, an English lord who took part in the discussion relating to the Quebec Act in 1774.

Supplement: The revolt of the fishermen in 1909

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IAT toponymy Rolland-Germain

Mount

Born in France in 1881, Rolland Germain arrived in Quebec in 1905. Brother of the Christian Schools, he taught at the College of Longueuil, where Brother Marie-Victorin met him. An excellent taxonomist, he will teach the latter to recognize the plants they bring back from their first herbalizations and initiate him into scientific methods. They will explore Quebec together, from Témiscamingue to the Magdalen Islands and from Abitibi to the Eastern Townships. He is credited with a very large contribution to the Flore laurentienne published by Marie-Victorin. He studied the flora of the Outaouais during his stay as a professor in Ottawa and completed Marie-Victorin's notes on Anticosti Island and Minganie which he published in 1969. He died in 1972.

Mount

The name Mont Saint-Alban would come from that of the parish of Saint-Alban-de-Cap-des-Rosiers; this was canonically erected in 1872 and is located about 4 km northwest of the relief. Saint Alban is a third century martyr, whose feast is celebrated on June 22 by Catholics and June 17 by Anglicans.

Saint-Alexandredes-Lacs

Village, parish

The municipalities of Saint-Tharcisius and Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre both had part of their territory amputated in 1965 to form that of Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs. Established as a mission in 1922, the Alexandrian community was to achieve parish status when it was canonically erected in 1965. The place was given the name of SaintAlexandre, in honor of Father Alexandre Bouillon, born in Saint- Anaclet in 1873, as well as in memory of Alexandre Courchesne, father of Monsignor Georges Courchesne, Bishop of Rimouski. The presence of many small lakes that dot this space and the surroundings leaves no doubt as to the motivation of the last constituent.

Saint-Anne-desMonts

City

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The Annemontois live in the most densely populated agglomeration between Matane and Gaspé. Located 500 km east of Quebec and 90 km east of Matane, Sainte-Anne-desMonts remains a service town watered by the Sainte-Anne River, whose name appears as "R St Anne” on a 1709 map of Gédéon de Catalogne, between Cap-Chat and Tourelle.

Around 1900, the place attracted many pilgrims and was considered, with SainteAnne-de-Beaupré and Sainte-Anne-de-laPocatière, as a high place of pilgrimage. The history of this part of the country begins under the French Regime when it was frequented by seasonal fishermen who only came there in summer.

IAT toponymy The isolation and lack of passable roads in the 19th century delayed the development of the area, which was initiated by the construction of sawmills. The first families settled there in 1815 and the initial growth was based on the fishing industry. In 1863, we witness the canonical erection of the parish of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, established in 1815, and which will give its name to the post office (1853) and to the municipality created in 1855.

The latter will obtain the city status in 1968. Both the parish and the city take their name from the seigniory of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts granted to Denis Riverin in 1688 "at the Ste-Anne river located at the beginning of the Monts Nostre-Dame", to establish a sedentary fishing station. The hagionymic element was attributed by Father Jean-Baptiste Sasseville, a native of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, just like the colonists of the early 19th century, without it being necessary to see a causal relationship to it. effect, because the river already bore this name in the 17th century.

The presence, in the south of the territory, of the Notre-Dame mountains, of which the Chic-Chocs form a part characterized by its high reliefs, would explain the constituent Monts, although some see in it the surname of Pierre Du Gua de Monts (1558?-1628 ), friend of Champlain and founder of the first Acadian colony.

Saint-André-deRestigouche

Village

The proclamation of the township of Ristigouche in 1842 shortly preceded the creation, in 1855, of the municipality of the township of the same name, established on the banks of the Ristigouche river, in the Gaspé, west of Pointe-à-la- Croix and near the New Brunswick town of Campbellton on the opposite shore.

In 1760, the place was the scene of the last battle between the English and the French which resulted in the destruction of the church and several houses as well as the desertion of the white population who moved to ballast. The area has always been considered an important center of population at the end of the Baie des Chaleurs, in particular thanks to the massive arrival of Acadians and Normans.

In 1989, the municipal authorities decided to change the name of the municipality because of many problems raised by the homonymy (Ristigouche-Partie-Sud-Est, Sainte-Anne-de-Ristigouche). They opt for the name of the parish created at the beginning of the century and canonically erected in 1908.

The hagionym (name of saint) Saint-André recalls Monsignor André-Albert Blais (1842-1919), bishop of Rimouski (1891-1919) . As for Restigouche, also the name of the Indian reserve, it is generally preferred in popular usage in Ristigouche, taken from the name of the river, thus spelled formerly.

Video supplement: St-André-de-Restigouche Overview

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Estuary

The St. Lawrence Estuary is located downstream of the St. Lawrence River and upstream of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It designates the place where fresh and salt water mix between the river and the gulf. The St. Lawrence estuary begins at Lake Saint-Pierre. It is divided into three sections: • the fluvial estuary from Lake Saint-Pierre to Île d'Orléans, • the middle estuary to the Saguenay and • the lower estuary to Anticosti Island.

The Royal proclamation of 1763 defines a line starting from the Saint-Jean river through the western tip of Anticosti Island, to Cap des Rosiers, which delimits the end of the river and the beginning of the gulf. It is the largest estuary in the world.

The St. Lawrence estuary is characterized by a saline front located at the eastern tip of Île d'Orléans.

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Saint-Laurent

River

Majestic river, 3,360 km long, which originates in the basin of Lake Superior, in Ontario, and in some American states, the St. Lawrence flows into the gulf of the same name. From a toponymic point of view, Saint-Laurent applies to the river itself, over a distance of 1,200 km from Lake Ontario to Anticosti Island.

The name Fleuve Saint-Laurent appears as a toponym in the translations first into Spanish, in 1552, then into Italian, in 1556, of the Narration of Jacques Cartier concerning his voyage of 1535-1536. In these translations, the name baye sainct Laurens attributed by Cartier, on August 10, 1535, the feast day of Saint Lawrence, martyr in Rome in 258, to a returnee from the Côte-Nord, is rendered mainly by "grand St. Lawrence River”. Subsequently, the specific Saint-Laurent was also applied to the gulf and then to the rivers. To realize this, it is worth quoting in this respect a passage from the Report of the English navigator Humphrey Gilbert. He writes in this document dated 1583: "[...] the great river called S. Laurence in Canada". However, the oldest name to have been recorded to characterize this hydrographic entity remains the one mentioned by Jacques Cartier, first in 1535, and which is: Grand fleuve de Hochelaga.

However, as evidenced by many documents, perhaps the best known name of this river in the 16th century was riviere de Canada. Jean Alfonse, pilot of Roberval, indicates this toponym in his works of 1542 and 1544. It is the

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In a letter dated 1587, Jacques Noël, Cartier's great-nephew, and who had also traveled up this river at least as far as Montreal, also writes Rivière de Canada. In 1603, Samuel de Champlain first referred to this waterway as the “riviere de Canadas”. But, from 1604, the founder of Quebec opted for “grande riviere de sainct Laurens” and “sainct Laurens river” in his writings and on his maps. It was therefore in the 17th century that the toponym Fleuve Saint-Laurent ended up supplanting its competitors.

Since the 16th century, segments of this waterway have sometimes taken on specific names. For example, during his voyage of 1542-1543, the French explorer Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval named France Prime the section of this river between Île d'Orléans and the town of Cap-Rouge. According to the English geographer Richard Hakluyt, this name France Prime was attributed by Roberval in homage to François I, King of France.

Roberval settled in the same place as Cartier, in 1541-1542, and named France-Roy sur France-Prime the dwelling located near the mouth of the Cap Rouge river near Quebec.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the section of the St. Lawrence between lakes Saint-François and Ontario was sometimes indicated on maps in particular, and was certainly known under the names Rivière des Iroquois and Rivière de Cataracoui. This last name came from the Amerindian name of Fort Frontenac, today Kingston, in Ontario. This waterway was and is still known to navigators and pilots under the geographical name La Rivière.

This usage seems to be ancient since authors of the 16th and 17th centuries, including the geographer Richard Hakluyt, and the explorer Louis Jolliet, for example, already indicate this other name of the St. Lawrence.

Today, this cross-border entity is officially recognized by the federal government under the double name of the Fleuve Saint Laurent and the St. Lawrence River. Several Amerindian nations have their name(s) to designate this watercourse: for example, the river is designated in Innu by Wepistukujaw Sipo; in Abenaki by Moliantegok; in Mohawk by Roiatatokenti or Raoteniateara.

In 2017, the Quebec government designated the St. Lawrence River a historic site.

Saint-Maurice-del'Échouerie

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The first part of the toponym comes from the name of the parish, detached in 1915 from Saint-Martin-de-laRivière-au-Renard and of which Father Elias Morris (1856-1936) was then parish priest. A phonetic connection between Morris and Maurice would explain its origin. As for the second part of the name, it is borrowed from L'Échouerie, a small fishing town. This term, which is found in the Gaspé, in the Magdalen Islands and on the North Shore, appeared in 1764 on a map by Nicolas Bellin and designates a place where sea wolves have contracted the habit of coming to rest. . It is not forbidden to think however that this word can also designate an extended strike where the boats of the fishermen run aground.

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Village

Sainte-Marguerite-Marie opens to colonization from 1915.

First founded as the mission of Sainte-Marguerite, the locality will take the name Sainte-Marguerite-Marie in 1923, under the leadership of Father Jean-Baptiste Beaupré (1896-1977), first resident priest from 1928 to 1936.

He wished to recall the memory of Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (1647-1690), who was canonized in 1920, the very year of the creation of the mission. Religious of the Order of the Visitation, she took the veil in 1671; Marguerite-Marie will have, from 1675, many visions of the Sacred Heart.

Saint-Maxime-duMont-Louis

Village

In the 18th century, this place was an important cod fishing station that Denis Riverin considered "the best place on the St. Lawrence River to fish for cod". Inhabited by twelve families in 1697 and 53 in 1699, the post was abandoned in 1702.

In 1758, General James Wolfe ordered Major Dalling, who was stationed at Gaspé, to destroy the Mont-Louis establishment. This is how he left Gaspé on September 14 with about 300 soldiers to get to Mont-Louis along the coast in five days. Mahiet offered a ransom for his establishment, but Major Dalling refused it and seized the property, then burned the cod reserves as well as the houses, except that of Mahiet.

On September 23, the English troops took Mahiet's two schooners to return to Gaspé with 43 prisoners including Mahiet and his wife.

Before its foundation in 1867, the parish of Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, which had some 200 inhabitants in 1863, according to Stanislas Drapeau, was included in the fairly large parish of SainteAnne-des-Monts. Canonically erected in 1875, it will transmit its name to the municipality officially established in 1884. It would derive its name, according to Hormisdas Magnan, from the first name of Abbot Maxime Tardif (1821-1850), as well as from the name of the seigneury of Mont- Louis, granted to Nicolas Bourlet, banker and merchant of Paris, before 1702. Attributed to the river which flows towards the Saint-Laurent in a narrow valley, this name evokes the great king Louis XIV (1638-1715), reigning sovereign (1643) -1715) when the first land grant was made.

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In order to counter the harmful effects of the general slump caused by the economic crisis of the 1930s in Gaspésie, the civil and religious authorities agreed to encourage the establishment of settlers inland. This is how the parish of Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir was born, located 18 km southeast of Cap-Chat and at an altitude of 380 m, on the edge of the Chic-Chocs mountains.

IAT toponymy Officially founded in 1935, the very year of the Vautrin Plan – colonization plan – it was opened in 1932 to settlers wishing to get down to work immediately. After having counted a population of nearly 1,200 inhabitants in 1937, this parish had to undergo ups and downs and to be closed in 1971, following the publication of the report of the Bureau de l'Aménagement de l'Est du Québec which designated it as a marginal parish. It only lasted 36 years.

Today, the toponym designates a locality and, just as originally, it pays homage to the founding priest LouisOctave Caron (1879-1942), born in Saint-Octave-de-Métis. The first term is explained by the addition of the qualifier Saint to his first name. As for the second, it translates the hope that the founders placed in the foundation of the parish. It has also been referred to as Saint-Octave and Saint-OctaveNord. Although uninhabited, Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir began receiving a summer camp for Sea Cadets in 1972, Air Cadets in 1980 and Army Cadets in 1983.

Saint-Vianney

Village

In 1918, the American company Mutual Colonization and Development began to establish settlers there. Nearly 300 Franco-American families settled in Langis township in the early 1920s. Founded in 1921, the Langis township mission, as it was called at the time, since its limits coincided with those of the he cantonal entity, will become the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-Vianney in 1925, because Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney (1786-1859), parish priest of Ars from 1817 to 1859, will be canonized in 1925. Recognized for his mortifications in order to convert a largely dechristianized population, its many miracles will make Ars, near Lyon, a center of pilgrimage. He is invoked as patron of parish priests and leaders of parish communities. His liturgical feast is celebrated on August 9. Taken over by the parish municipality created in 1926, the name was to be abbreviated in 1988 to Saint-Vianney.

Saint-Yvon

Village

It was in 1886 that a post office, closed in 1968, was opened under the name of Saint-Yvon, which is the origin of the toponym. According to the testimony of the elders, this name was given by the first postmaster, of French origin, in memory of his place of birth. The place had been previously known under the name of Pointe-Sèche, which is also that of the strip of land that juts out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence east of the bay of Saint-Yvon. An 1869 survey report only indicates Pointe-Sèche for this place.

During the Second World War, more precisely on December 8, 1942, a torpedo launched by a German submarine reached the coast, which caused a great stir among the population of this hamlet.

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City

The Annemontois live in the most densely populated agglomeration between Matane and Gaspé. Located 500 km east of Quebec and 90 km east of Matane, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts remains a service town watered by the SainteAnne River, whose name appears as "R St Anne” on a 1709 map of Catalonia, between Cap-Chat and Tourelle.

Around 1900, the place attracted many pilgrims and was considered, with Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and SainteAnne-de-la-Pocatière, as a high place of pilgrimage. The history of this part of the country begins under the French Regime when it was frequented by seasonal fishermen who only came there in summer.

The isolation and lack of passable roads in the 19th century delayed the development of the area, which was initiated by the construction of sawmills. The first families settled there in 1815 and the initial growth was based on the fishing industry. In 1863, we witness the canonical erection of the parish of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, established in 1815, and which will give its name to the post office (1853) and to the municipality created in 1855.

The latter will obtain the city status in 1968. Both the parish and the city take their name from the seigniory of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts granted to Denis Riverin in 1688 "at the Ste-Anne river located at the beginning of the Monts Nostre-Dame", to establish a sedentary fishing station. The hagionymic element was attributed by Father Jean-Baptiste Sasseville, a native of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, just like the colonists of the early 19th century, without it being necessary to see a causal relationship to it. effect, because the river already bore this name in the 17th century.

The presence, in the south of the territory, of the Notre-Dame mountains, of which the Chic-Chocs form a part characterized by its high reliefs, would explain the constituent Monts, although some see in it the surname of Pierre Du Gua de Monts (1558?-1628 ), friend of Champlain and founder of the first Acadian colony.

Samuel-Côté

Seigneurie de l’Anse-de-l’Étang

Lake

Seigniory

Son nom rappelle le souvenir de Samuel Côté (Cap-Chat, 1880 – Id., 1965), guide dans les Chic-Chocs. En compagnie de Joseph Fortin (1880-1960), il a notamment accompagné Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873-1950) et James Franklin Collins (1863-1940), deux botanistes américains de l’Université Harvard à Boston qui ont fait des relevés floristiques dans la région, vers 1905. D’ailleurs, ce serait possiblement à Samuel Côté et à son compagnon que l'on doit le nom Lac aux Américains, sans doute attribué pour souligner l'apport des scientifiques américains lors de cette expédition.

This seigniory was granted to François Hazeur and Denis Riverin, merchants in Quebec, by Governor Frontenac and Intendant Champigny, on September 20, 1697. Its extent is 3 leagues in front by 1 league in depth, six leagues below of the valley of the Notre-Dame mountains.

A pond is immediately to the south and flows into the cove, which would explain its name. Anse de l'Étang is also known by the Micmac name Gaqtugawei Sipu, which means “river of thunder”.

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This 2,727.56 ha plant habitat was created to protect the Serpentine stitchwort, the Green-scaled Willow, the Rock sword fern and the Alpine goldenrod, a simple variety with green bracts. The name of the habitat found within Parc national de la Gaspésie, borrows that of the geological formation that characterizes it: the serpentine. This

IAT toponymy one is a rare rock in Quebec and in the world. It has toxic characteristics for most plants, but on the other hand constitutes a favorable environment for certain rare plants. The habitat is characterized by the tundra vegetation that grows on the serpentine plateau and on the eastern and southern slopes of Mount Albert, from 550 meters above sea level, as well as on the rocky serpentine slopes of Diable’s Ravine .

Séverin-Pelletier

Mount

Since 2002, this name evokes the memory of Séverin Pelletier, a surveyor native of Cap-Chat and domiciled in Matane who carried out several works in the Matane wildlife reserve. He died in Matane on December 20, 1995.

Table, de la

Mount

The toponym Mont de la Table, official since 1952, was preceded by the names Tabletop also written Table Top or simply Table. Tabletop is still in use, especially since the publication in the 1930s of the work of geologists Harold William McGerrigle and I. W. Jones as well as studies of geographer Raoul Blanchard. Table is a term in everyday language to designate horizontal surfaces, generally more or less extended trays. There is even talk of tabular relief in structural geomorphology. In the case of Table Mountain, it is an old leveling surface whose horizontal edge can be seen from quite a distance away, which probably explains the choice of the name.

Tamagodi

River

Of Mi'kmaq origin, this name means outlet, possibly referring to the property of the river as a waterway.

Mount

Its name evokes the memory of William Price, president of the Price Brothers company, which owned forest cutting rights on the territory of the current Matane wildlife reserve. Camp 2, located near this mountain, was owned by this company. William Price died in Kénogami (Saguenay) in 1924.

Xalibu

Mount

Ce relief porte un nom micmac, Xalibu, ou Galipu selon une autre transcription, qui signifie le trépigneur, la bête qui pioche, c'est-à-dire le caribou. Ce mammifère a en effet l'habitude de creuser avec ses pattes pour se nourrir.

Il est abondant dans ce secteur du parc de conservation. La présence du caribou à cet endroit – le seul troupeau vivant au sud du Saint-Laurent depuis 1930 – représente un vestige faunique précieux, car on retrouvait autrefois cet animal partout au Québec et même dans les États du Maine et du New Hampshire. Le nom Mont Xalibu, proposé par les autorités du parc de conservation pour désigner une élévation jusqu'ici innommée, vient rappeler dans la toponymie ce phénomène d'exception. La Commission de toponymie a adopté cette désignation en 1989.

Zéphir

Refuge

Around the 1850s, fishermen were looking for good fishing spots. In this isolated creek cove, Zéphirin Bond discovered a peaceful oasis protected from the elements; the creek brought abundant water.

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IAT toponymy He and his family (wife and children) set up a fishing camp, complete with log house and service buildings. For sustenance, he keeps a horse and other animals, and farms.

Some residents of L'Anse-à-Valleau obtain firewood from Zéphirin's land.

As the years went by, the site became known as "Ruisseau à Zéphyr" or "Chez Zéphyr". The story tells that two children would be dead during the winter.

Source : Comité de développement de l’Anse-à-Valleau Source : Commission de toponymie du Québec (sauf mention contraire)

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SUPPLEMENTS - GENERAL Mont Logan Topography

There are three physiographic divisions in the Mount Logan massif: to the north, the highlands, to the center, the mountainous ridge of Chic-Chocs and, to the south, a plain.

The Piedmont highlands are made up of wooded valleys with an average altitude of 550 meters. Streams and rivers flow through ravines up to 400 meters deep.

Mount Logan is characterized by a variegated territorial morphology, alternating gentle rounded and grassy slopes with steep cliffs. To the north, a steep escarpment places Mount Logan as one of the most prominent peaks in eastern Canada, with a peak height of 620 meters. This wall, with a height varying between 450 and 600 meters and an inclination generally between 20 and 40°, even vertical in some places, is visible from several places along the coast of the St. Lawrence, in particular from Cap- Chat and Sainte-Anne-des-Monts.

The western portion of the wall, less steep, remains no less impassable than its eastern counterpart. The slopes of the southern flank of the massif are gentler: their elevation varies from 180 to 300 meters, with a sloping distance of about one kilometer.

The summit itself is a picturesque dome with a maximum elevation of 1150 meters, set on a ridge of similarly elevated peaks (Mattawees, Fortin, Pembroke Mountains) interspersed with deep valleys.

Geology

Mount Logan was formed about 450 million years ago. Lateral pressure exerted by other formations on the bedrock leads to the formation of folds, then, with increasing pressure, the overlap results; a bed of thrust a few hundred meters thick is set up. The Logan nappe is made up of rocks that are harder than the rocks of the surrounding formations. The faster erosion of these neighboring formations revealed the particular relief of the Chic-Chocs mountains, and more specifically of Mount Logan.

Wildlife and flora Griscom's Arnica is endemic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Mount Logan is primarily located in a fir-white birch forest. The pre-industrial forest was composed of a matrix dominated by mature conifers, but exploitation by forestry companies, in particular the Hammermill company which held cutting rights for an annual volume of wood of 72,000 m3 on the mountain, transforms the nature of the stands, now composed of young shoots of conifers bordering more on deciduous trees. The regeneration cycle is slow: 30 to 60 years are required for a stand dominated by fir trees to reach maturity, which is almost twice as long as it usually takes.

Gaspésie caribou frequent Mount Logan.

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The altitude of the mountain and its exposure to the winds make it an exceptional site for the vegetation of subalpine meadows. The western slope of the mountain and its summit are home to a large number of rare, threatened or vulnerable plant species, some of which are endemic to the Chic-Chocs massif.

Mount Logan is home to two vulnerable animal species. On the one hand, the eastern slope is a habitat for Bicknell's thrush. On the other hand, after having deserted it in the 1970s, the Gaspésie caribou herd once again frequents the mountain.

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Logan's Expedition In search of coal, William Edmond Logan explored the Gaspé for the first time in 1843, then returned there in 1844. On the boat taking them to Gaspé, the chemist Édouard Sylvestre de Rottermund, joking with Captain Walter Douglas, proposed to name "Logan" the highest mountain they could see off Cap-Chat, and which they intended to auscultate. The geologist disagrees.

Flanked by the Earl of Rottermund, the geologist Alexander Murray, two assistants and four Mi'gmaq guides, Logan and his eight acolytes left Cap-Chat on July 5, 1844, with the intention of reaching Mont Saint-Joseph, then the Baie des Chaleurs. The researchers first carried out the topography of the peaks visible from the coast to the north of the peninsula, then going up the Cap-Chat river by canoe, they reached the base of the mountain on July 14. Four days later, they become the first Europeans to reach the summit of Mount Logan; they plant the Union Jack there.

Logan describes the view in these terms: “From the highest peak we visited, the panorama was most imposing. On the northern half of the circle, the waters of the St. Lawrence, punctuated by ships and fishing boats, extended to the left and to the right for as far as the eye could see [...].

Towards the east, a confusion of mountains and ravines belonging to the Monts Notre-Dame filled the horizon, and we presumed that a summit, which showed a patch of snow, might have been higher than the point at which we were standing. found. Several of the peaks that we could see were bare rock [...].

Towards the south, an undulating sea of parallel ridges occupied the picture [...].

On lower elevation hills, spruce trees mixed with birch trees, and tree size increased as elevation decreased. After confinement in the forest below, the high altitude vegetation hit us hard and satisfied us greatly. Large expanses of open meadow appeared to us on all sides except the north. Wide slopes to the east, south and west were carpeted with the most lush shoots and a diversity of ferns, from which the hills sometimes looked like park landscapes or works of art like if the distribution was arranged for an ornamental purpose and often producing, with peaks, ravines and a distant horizon, landscapes of the most grandiose.

- William Edmond Logan, Report of progress Logan's expedition explores the surroundings, then crosses a pass to finally reach the Cascapedia River, which she surveys in detail.. It reached the Baie des Chaleurs on September 6, 1844.

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Many academic publications are interested in the Chic-Chocs massif during the 1920s. Noting the little knowledge produced on the mountain, the botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald tries to reach the summit of Mount Logan with the intention of describing it. the flora.

For his work, Fernald draws on the Laurentian herbarium of botanist John Macoun, as well as physiographic studies by geologists William Edmond Logan, Arthur Coleman, and Frederick J. Alcock.

In 1922, accompanied by botanist Arthur Stanley Pease and guide Joseph Fortin, Fernald tries to find the trail that Logan took to the summit. The mountain is practically unknown to the locals: researchers are trying several routes to reach the top. A series of thunderstorms put an end to their first expedition. The following year, Fernald formed a team of seven botanists. Scientists find plants characteristic of the Canadian Arctic and the Western Cordillera on the mountain, never before seen so far south and east. In short, the expedition identifies 300 arctic, alpine and endemic plants. Fernald explains these findings by hypothesizing that Mount Logan and the surrounding peaks were nunataks during the last ice age.

The names of the neighboring Collins and Dodge mountains, of Griscom's Arnica and of the Fernald ecological reserve recall the visit of botanists in the 1920s. Fernald's work in Gaspésie inspired Brother Marie-Victorin to form his Laurentian Flora. Marie-Victorin even says of Fernald that he is her “botanical father”.

Broadcasting

As television spreads to Quebec homes, a race for the rise of the Chic-Chocs is emerging between different broadcasting groups. At the start of 1961, Télévision Transgaspésienne (TVTG, affiliated with Télé-Métropole) and the Compagnie de radiodiffusion de Matane (CKBL) both applied to the Board of Broadcasting Governors for a broadcasting license to the highest peaks in the Gaspé24. TVTG had obtained from the Quebec State an emphyteutic lease for the installation of an antenna at the top of Mont Jacques-Cartier; CKBL, which is ultimately licensed, instead obtained government permission to occupy the Logan summit.

Although it is very powerful, the signal is ill-suited to the Gaspé topography and the transmitter is difficult to make profitable. In the meantime, at the foot of the mountain, the village of Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir is abandoned and supplies must henceforth be obtained from Cap-Chat, via the valley of the Cap-Chat river. From the 1972 acquisition of CKBL by the Société Radio-Canada (SRC), plans were made to put the transmitter off-wave. Operation "Descent of Mount Logan" was announced in 1977 by engineers from the SRC, and part of the facilities were dismantled the following year. The remaining buildings and the main pylon were finally demolished in 2011.

In 2007, Radio-Canada, still owner of the summit, tried to divest itself of its land. The Ministry of the Environment blocks the sale; study reveals diesel contamination of soil that once powered generators. Work valued at $ 400,000 began in 2014 to build a biotertre (decontamination device), but the process must take place over a period of at least six years, due to the harsh climate, the isolation of the site and ecological sensitivity.

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In order to make their Mount Logan transmitter profitable, the owners of CKBL plan to develop the ski potential of the mountain as soon as it is put into service. They call on Ernie McCullogh, ski trainer, to organize an exploration expedition with industrialists from Matane,

Supplements - General then a cinematographic expedition to demonstrate this potential in the spring of 1964. The mountain is praised for its abundant and persistent snow. , in addition to the multiple exploitable slopes. The site is the training ground for the Canadian Interski delegation.

McCullogh even promises to make Mount Logan the training site for the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. The mountain is regularly compared to Val-d'Isère.

The multiple expeditions attracted the attention of Toronto politicians and financiers, who wanted government guarantees before investing. Plans are underway to develop a ski resort that can accommodate up to 5,000 skiers escorted by five chairlifts, and accommodated in nearby towns or in a hotel with a capacity of 500 customers. The estimated cost of the station is first $ 1,500,000, then $ 3,000,000, and then estimated between $ 7,000,000 and $ 10,000,000. The Eastern Quebec Planning Bureau took up the matter; the Ministry of Lands and Forests entrusted Claude Robillard with studying ski development projects for the highest summits of the ChicChocs. Plans are underway to build an elaborate network of access roads and an airport large enough to accommodate airliners; the bill climbs to $ 40,000,000. However, no public investment is made in this direction. The government banned the showing in Quebec of films on McCullogh's expeditions, and the Mont Sainte-Anne site, closer to Quebec and Montreal, was preferred for the establishment of a ski resort of international caliber.

The project was still discussed in the mid-1970s with a heli-ski formula, requiring lighter immobilizations. However, the Quebec government refuses to inject money into it. A heli-ski resort was operated by businessmen from the region between 1985 and 1990, but their efforts to develop the mountain were weighed down by competition from the Massif de Charlevoix.

In 2002, the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SEPAQ) preferred Mont Jean-Yves-Bérubé to Mont Logan for the construction of a luxury mountain inn, the Auberge de montagne des Chic-Chocs, where guided ski touring services.

Environmental protection

As part of the Parc national de la Gaspésie, most of the mountain has been protected since 1937. In order to ensure increased protection of the fauna and flora specific to the Chic-Chocs massif, industrial forestry and logging activities Mining is prohibited in the park since 1977. Belonging to the Société Radio-Canada, the summit of the mountain is not part of the Parc de la Gaspésie. However, it is planned to transfer it to the Quebec state once the soils have been decontaminated from the diesel found there.

Integrated into the Mont-Logan plant habitat since 1995, the eastern slope of the mountain benefits from additional protection to ensure the survival of rare and endangered plant specimens found there. The part of the western slope excluded from the Parc de la Gaspésie is included in the Matane wildlife reserve. Immediately to the northwest, the Fernald Ecological Reserve provides full escarpment protection north of the Collins, Mattawees and Fortin peaks.

The entire mountain is included in the legal habitat of the Gaspésie caribou Index Source : Wikipedia

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Forillon national park History

The creation of the park in 1970 was preceded by the closure of villages and the displacement by expropriation of 225 families who resided within the boundaries of the proposed sector. The houses were demolished and / or burnt down, often in the presence of their owners who had lived in them for decades. In 2010, after 40 years, the surviving expropriated people no longer had to pay a right of way to a Parks Canada kiosk to tread the land where they were born.

Several foundations of demolished houses today remain hidden in the brush in several sections of the park. However, certain areas in the southern sector of the park relate the human activities that took place in Forillon before the territory was ecologically protected.

Before expropriation, 1970

Interpretation activities invite us to learn more about human activities on the Forillon peninsula. A visit to the Hyman Store and the adjoining exhibitions, or even during the hike entitled Une Tournée dans les Parages, which takes us alongside houses, fields, agricultural and commercial facilities from the beginning of the 20th century, allow us to understand that Forillon was already inhabited. by communities.

Forillon is also home to Fort Péninsule, located near the Penouille peninsula, an outcrop of land in the Bay of Gaspé. The place was developed and fortified during the Second World War to form, with Fort Prével, located on the opposite side of Gaspé Bay, a defense system against German submarines. In fact, it was foreseen that in the event of the capture of England by the Nazis, the fleet of British ships would take refuge in the Bay of Gaspé. It would thus have been protected by the two aforementioned forts and by an anti-submarine net previously installed.

Geology and landforms

There are 10 geological formations superimposed in a strip in the park, which is a rare phenomenon. The rocks of Forillon are composed of limestone and sandstone from marine sediments dating back 359 to 488 million years that were uplifted during the formation of the Appalachians. In the south of the park, the rocks took a slope of 20 to 30 degrees towards the bay of Gaspé, to end abruptly in the center of the park.

Flora

There are 696 plant species in the national park. The forest covers 95% of the park which is divided into 63 distinct plant groups. The fir stand with white birch and the maple grove with yellow birch are the most frequent groups in the park. The park also has one of the Red Oak forests which is located at the northern limit of its distribution.

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Supplements - General The park also has a large number of plants with an alpine or arctic affinity. There are 115 species there which are said to be a residue of the Wisconsin glaciation. The climate exposed to bad weather at the summit and on the limestone cliffs of the Forillon peninsula is their habitat.

Wildlife

Most species of boreal forest mammals are found in the park. The most impressive are undoubtedly the Moose and the Black Bear. Small mammals include the Canadian Beaver, Red Fox, Coyote, Canada Lynx, Snowshoe Hare, American Porcupine, Woodchuck, American Mink, Ermine, the Eastern Chipmunk, and the Red Squirrel. The park is also frequented by several marine mammals. One finds there among others the harbor seal and the gray seal which frequent the coasts to rest and to reproduce. Among the cetaceans we can see the blue whale, the harbor porpoise, the fin whale and the pilot whale which frequent the waters around the park to feed.

There are 225 species of birds in the park, 124 of which nest there. Among seabirds are the Double-crested Cormorant, Black Guillemot, Kittiwake, Razorbill, Great Blue Heron, Common Tern and many species of gulls. There are also several species that frequent the forests, including buntings, warblers, jays, woodpeckers and thrushes. There are 26 species of birds of prey that frequent the park, the most common being the Red-legged Hawk, the Northern Harrier, and the American Kestrel.

In addition to its species, the cliffs of the Forillon peninsula are recognized as an important nesting site for Harlequin Ducks. The site would include 6.7% of the population of eastern North America. The site is also host to 2% of North American Kittiwakes. Gaspé Bay is recognized as an important wintering area for the Long-tailed Harelde and Barrow's Goldeneye. The bay is also frequented in the summer by 1% of the North American population of the Brent Goose. The park has two important heronries, one of the Great Blue Heron in Penouille and the other of the Black Heron in L'Anse-aux-Amérindiens.

Index Source : Wikipédia

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SUPPLEMENTS - ECOLOGY Gaspésie-Atlantic caribou The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) belongs to the deer family.

It currently includes seven subspecies, only one of which occurs in Quebec: the woodland caribou. It abounds in the northern regions, but only one population persists in its natural state, south of the St. Lawrence River: that of the Gaspé. In 2002, after long discussions, the researchers agreed to confirm that the woodland caribou of the Gaspé-Atlantic region are unique, as they are genetically distinct from all the other existing herds. Woodland caribou are divided into three ecotypes: tundric, forest and montane.

The caribou of the Gaspé peninsula belong to the mountain ecotype. They undertake seasonal migrations at altitude towards an alpine habitat, but these are mainly limited to the mountains of the Parc de la Gaspésie..

History of the population Caribou once populated all of Quebec. In the early 1950s, it was estimated that the size of the caribou population in Gaspé was 700 to 1,500 individuals. In 1980, there were only 250 individuals left. The main causes of this fall are human activities, whether it is hunting which continued until 1948, or the disturbance of habitats linked to logging, mining and the development of agriculture. The caribou of the Gaspé are in fact a meta-population divided into three herds which probably have little exchange between them. Their IAT-QC-Topo+

Supplements - Ecology population reached its lowest level in 1999, when it was estimated that only a few dozen individuals remained. Since then, several conservation measures have been put in place to allow the caribou population to recover.

Conservation status

The geographic and genetic isolation of the Gaspé caribou are at the origin of the great biological and heritage value associated with the Gaspé-Atlantic caribou. The Gaspé population was designated as "endangered" by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada in 2001. This is the maximum status before the species is officially considered extinct. This status is generally awarded to populations with low geographical dispersion. On the other hand, population models predict that the Gaspé-Atlantic caribou could disappear by 2056.

This measure was also in line with the law on parks, according to which: "the priority objective of a national park is to ensure the conservation and permanent protection of territories representative of the natural regions of Quebec or of natural sites with character. exceptional, in particular because of their biological diversity, while making them accessible to the public for educational purposes and extensive recreation ".

Characteristics Habitat

The parc national de la Gaspésie covers an area of 802 km. It includes two important mountain ranges in the Appalachian chain: the Chic-Chocs mountains and the McGerrigle mountains, in the heart of which caribou live. In the park, we find islands of arctic-alpine tundra that are an integral part of the habitat of the woodland caribou of the mountain ecotype. The caribou of Gaspésie-Atlantique are distinguished by their exclusive use of mountainous environments. The national park also protects certain exceptional forest ecosystems, including several islands of old-growth forests.

Life cycle

The life expectancy of caribou in the wild is estimated at 10 and 15 years respectively for males and females.

Reproduction

Caribou have a fairly low fertility rate, which makes them all the more vulnerable. Indeed, they do not reach their sexual maturity until the age of two and a half (compared to six months for white-tailed deer, for example) and generally only make one young.

Rutting and mating takes place in the fall, from September to November. The length of gestation varies between seven and eight months. And between late May and mid-June, females disperse to give birth to their calves. Female fecundity has been shown to be highly dependent on feeding conditions and the protein content of the food to which they have access.

Diet

La composition de son régime alimentaire varie selon les saisons. En été, le caribou se nourrit de mousses, de lichens et d'herbacées.

Alors qu'en hiver, son alimentation est presque exclusivement constituée de lichens arboricoles. Ces lichens, que l'on trouve dans les peuplements d'arbres matures des hautes altitudes, sont essentiels à la survie du caribou en hiver lorsque le reste de sa nourriture est recouvert par la neige.

Habitat loss

Habitat alteration or loss associated with conventional logging is recognized as the ultimate cause of caribou decline. Logging in the park until 1881 created a younger forest, which generally does not provide a suitable environment for caribou who cannot feed there. The Gaspé thus went from a forest land mainly made up of mature conifers to a forest land predominantly of young stands

Threats

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Wind farms are already on the range of the Gaspé-Atlantic caribou, and three more are under construction. The wind turbines will be quite close to each other, and their construction will likely require cutting most of the forest between them. As the exterior of the park is much less conducive to the development of caribou, current knowledge suggests that Parc national de la Gaspésie is too small to ensure, on its own, long-term caribou conservation.

The arrival of new predators

The changes in the environment created by logging can be beneficial for certain animal species such as moose, coyotes and even black bears. Indeed, the regeneration of deciduous trees favors an increase in the density of moose in the park. These new potential preys as well as the new habitat, with areas of open areas and shrubs of dense vegetation, are at the origin of the massive arrival of predators. Coyotes were first spotted in the Gaspé in 1973, probably attracted by moose and the proliferation of snowshoe hares in disturbed areas offering them new open areas. The bears themselves, were also attracted by the appearance of many small shrubs producing wild berries which they adore. But be aware that caribou, smaller than moose, are unfortunately the first line of sight of these predators. Thus, the researchers noticed that the increase in the populations of coyotes and black bears exerted too much predation pressure on the calves of the caribou and thus constituted one of the main causes of the disappearance of the population of the Gaspé.

Proximity to humans

The development of the natural park as a recreational area for tourists also presents its share of problems. In addition to creating dispersal corridors for predators via public paths, visitors disturb deer. The paths / roads in the park are very unfavorable to caribou who often do not dare to cross them. This has the effect of reducing the size of their habitats and separating the different parts of the population. Studies have also shown that animals move a lot more because of the stress induced by proximity to humans.

Indeed, this causes them additional fatigue and therefore increases their vulnerability to predators.

Protection initiatives Since then, a forest caribou recovery plan has been implemented in Quebec for several years. The government-mandated woodland caribou recovery team brings together more than 40 experts from different backgrounds. They are responsible for coordinating the caribou recovery plan. To try to save those in the Gaspé Park, this team had, first of all, to control the number of predators present, in particular by killing some of these animals, particularly during the period when there are fawns. But these decisions obviously pose long-term ethical problems. The main objectives of the current plan (2013-2023) to restore woodland caribou across Quebec are: (1) preservation of caribou habitats, (2) maintaining the numbers, by improving the survival rate of caribou, by carrying out regular demographic monitoring and preserving all current herds, (3) obtaining the support of the public and the involvement of First Nations, (4) the pursuit of knowledge acquisition.

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Due to its many threats, a large part of the effort to save the caribou in the Gaspé-Atlantic region involves strict control of the state of its habitat and attempts to improve it in accordance with the needs. caribou. These objectives are discussed and established on the occasion of the release of the "Forest Management Plan for the Gaspé Caribou Area (2013-2018)", every 5 years. Thus, ecological planning is used to improve the management of the park.

The plan proposes to encourage management based on partial cuts in order to conserve an interesting quantity of lichens and to minimize the creation of habitats that benefit predators and alternative prey such as moose. Standards were thus created at the level of logging in the area frequented by caribou. In the conservation zones, no intervention aimed at forest production is authorized, apart from certain silvicultural treatments which contribute to the increase in lichen production and to the creation of welcoming habitats for caribou. In the management area, it is advisable to develop uneven-aged structures, that is, forests that contain trees of all ages and diameters. By doing so, we hope to conserve patches of mature forest that carry lichens. The regulations change and are adapted according to the altitude considered.

The general objectives are to conserve at least 50% of the historical abundance of old stands of trees in units where there is a direct presence of caribou and 30% in surrounding units. We also intend to control the quantity of young stands. The team wants to maintain a forest cover that is greater than 4 m in height (i.e. 30 years of age or more) over at least 84% of the forest area and promote cover by long-lived conifers. Finally, the priority is to preserve as much as possible the arboreal lichen, which can only become fully established in forest areas that are over 90 years old. We also want to increase the protection of the peaks comprising a tundra facies, particular landscapes essential to the caribou of the Gaspé, and to protect what corresponds to the corridors of movement of the caribou. Another initiative is to restore continuous forest areas throughout the development area, in particular by reforesting certain forest roads.

Predator control

Today, control of predator populations, particularly coyote populations, but also bear populations is carried out in the Gaspé Park.

Trapping operations are implemented as part of the caribou recovery plan (2013-2023). The goal is to reduce predation pressures, particularly on the young, and thus increase the survival rate of calves. These techniques are proving to be effective solutions. But these practices of controlling predator populations can raise several ethical, funding and social acceptability problems with populations. They are therefore only considered as short-term solutions.

Public awareness

In order to achieve better protection, there is a lot of media coverage around the protection of caribou in Gaspésie-Atlantique. Park officials are trying to make visitors aware of the importance of preserving this emblematic relict population. Several studies have shown that including the public in decision-making and the establishment of protection plans makes them more effective. On the other hand, in order to reduce the stress to which this fragile population is exposed, park managers have decided to close a large part of the trails to the public during a period of the year. This in order to facilitate the restoration of the forest environment and to create a refuge space for the species.

Population monitoring

The caribou of Gaspésie-Atlantique are now counted every year using helicopter observations. There were 54 in 2017 and it was therefore estimated that their population should be around 75 individuals. The population has been stable for several years, but still in a precarious state. The implementation of the conservation plan requires regular control of the herds, in particular the rate of

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Moreover, the new data offered by telemetry are now used to try to better understand the movements and behavior of herds and individuals. This also allows us to have more specific indices as to the survival rates of caribou in the Gaspé-Atlantic region. Telemetry data guide biodiversity managers in their choice of priority geographic areas to protect

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Manche d’Épée ecological reserve The Manche-d'Épée ecological reserve covers an area of 573.24 hectares.

This ecological reserve protects a yellow birch sugar maple stand located in an incised valley on a limestone substrate. This plant community is rare in the Gaspé Peninsula.

The ruisseau du Manche d'Épée valley is typical of Gaspesian valleys with a north-south orientation.

It is deeply incised; at its northern end, it is some 300 metres wide and its altitude does not exceed 20 metres, but the slopes are steep. As you move into the hinterland, the valley floor narrows and rises, and the gradient increases, reaching an altitude of 400 metres.

The rocks of the Appalachian massif are composed of limestone, slate and shale. The valley sides of the Manche d'Épée stream are lined with talus slopes and scree cones. The vertical walls remain dynamic under the action of freezing and thawing, helping to rejuvenate the deposits with new contributions. The lower parts of the slopes are more stable and older, while the flats bordering the stream are made up of recent alluvium. The soils are Regosols and Brunisols, generally shallow and well drained.

In terms of vegetation, the valley floor, where soils are best developed, is colonized by the typical yellow birch sugar maple stand. Sugar maple fir and yellow birch maple grove with polysticus falselonchitis then mark the lower slopes, while at higher altitudes, the steep slopes are colonized by white birch fir grove with mosses. Finally, the drier environments that follow at higher altitudes belong to the white cedar and white pine fir stands.

Finally, it should be noted that the false lonchitis, a maple stand species likely to be designated as threatened or vulnerable, has been recorded in the ecological reserve.

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Mont Saint-Pierre ecological reserve The Mont-Saint-Pierre ecological reserve covers an area of 643 hectares. It stretches for about five kilometers from the eastern slope of the steep-sided glacial valley of Mont-Saint-Pierre which plunges into the mountains. In addition to the slope on which there are significant scree slopes, the ecological reserve also includes the plateau overlooking the slope.

A sum of more than 20 years of scientific knowledge on the complexity and dynamics of the geological and geomorphological phenomena that shape the slopes of the Mont-Saint-Pierre valley, and the analysis of the distribution and abundance of threatened plants or vulnerable in this territory, have made it possible to justify this ecological reserve.

The Mont-Saint-Pierre ecological reserve protects slopes that evolve over highly friable geological formations. The slopes feature rocky cliffs that feed active scree slopes. On these slopes, many geomorphological processes take place: disintegration of rock walls, flows, rolling blocks, sliding on snow and ice, flow of icy stones, avalanches, etc.

The vegetation cover belongs to the domain of the yellow birch- balsam fir forest and white birch-balsam fir forest. It is mostly dominated by balsam fir, while western cedar is abundant in the borders. In the upper part of the slopes, on the screes, grow isolated clones of thuja, stocky and dense, in the shape of krummholz, which testify to the intense wind action. Studies on forest cover show that on all active scree slopes, the forest is declining in favor of scree.

The Mont-Saint-Pierre ecological reserve ensures the protection of 60% of the Quebec population of Southern Astragalus. This plant, which appears on the list of plants designated as threatened or vulnerable in Quebec, is only found in three locations in Quebec, the largest population of which is in Mont-SaintPierre.

The constitution of the Mont-Saint-Pierre ecological reserve ensures that a fabulous scientific research laboratory is maintained in its natural state and protects important elements of Quebec's ecological diversity. In addition, it guarantees the preservation of an exceptional landscape.

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Fernald ecological reserve The Fernald ecological reserve ensures the protection of a portion of the imposing north slope of the Chic-Chocs mountains where there are plant groups belonging to the climax domains of yellow birch-balsam fir forest, white birch-balsam fir forest and black spruce-balsam fir forest. These climax domains are represented by elements from the following three ecological regions: Lac Matapédia and Gaspésie, Bas and Moyens Monts Notre-Dame and Monts ChicChocs. Also, the ecological reserve protects plant species designated and likely to be designated threatened or vulnerable.

The relief of the territory of the ecological reserve is hilly in the lower part of the slope. The slope increases between 250 and 450 meters above sea level and sharply increases to reach the flattened summits (tables) of the Collins, Mattawees and Fortin mountains at an altitude of nearly 1,100 meters.

The glaciers of Wisconsin covered the entire land. They placed a till cover in the lower part of the gently sloping slopes and shaped cirques on the steep slopes. The latter, at the foot of which deposits mainly made up of rock have accumulated.

The vegetation that colonizes the slopes of the Chic-Chocs Mountains is organized according to an altitudinal sequence. The lower part of the slope up to an altitude of 450 meters is home to the sugar maple grove and the maple grove with yellow birch and fir. Between altitudes of 450 to 700 meters, the maple grove gradually gives way to balsam fir and balsam fir. Halfway up the slope, the fir forest gradually turns into open subalpine forest and, on the upper slopes and summits, it is replaced by stunted forest (krummolz).

Bare ridges and exposed rock faces contain diverse alpine flora, some of which are designated threatened or vulnerable or are likely to be so designated. The main species, including those in obliquely draining wetlands, are: Griscom's Arnica and Dwarf arctic ragwort, which are designated , Brown-crested Arnica, Norway Gnaphale, Bluegrass Fernald and the Snow Saxifrage which are likely to be designated.

The toponym of the ecological reserve is given in honor of Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873-1950) who made the flora of the Chic-Chocs known worldwide.

Among the territories explored by Fernald and of which he revealed the richness, let us quote the surroundings of the mountains Logan, Coleman, Pembroke, Fortin and Matawees. A passage between these last two bears the name of "Passe à Fernald". In 1938, the University of Montreal appointed him honorary doctorate and in 1949, the Montreal Botanical Institute awarded him the Marie-Victorin Medal.

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Ristigouche ecological reserve The Ristigouche ecological reserve is located in the southwestern part of the Gaspé peninsula, 5 kilometers southeast of the village of Saint-André-deRistigouche (regional county municipality of Avignon). It covers an area of 473.37 hectares.

The site ensures the protection of ecosystems representative of the Baie des Chaleurs ecological region, which belongs to the maple-yellow birch and firyellow birch fields.

The relief of the ecological reserve is made up of two plateaus intersected by two valleys. The plateaus reach an elevation of 275 meters, while the valleys, where the Fraser and Flatland streams flow, are respectively 125 and 80 meters above sea level. The bedrock belongs to the Matapedia series of the formation Appalachian. Slates, quartzites, schists and limestones constitute it. These rocks are mainly covered with thin till.

As for the vegetation, we can recognize the sugar maple and yellow birch forest and the balsam fir forest with western cedar on the plateau, the balsam fir with yellow birch at the bottom of the plateau, the cedar forest with fir, alder grove and a group of red dogwood. at the bottom of the valleys.

Among the plant species representing the maple-yellow birch grove of the plateau, only one individual of large-leaved beech has been identified; the species has reached the northern limit of its range here.

On the wildlife side, beavers are present and abundant; their dams caused flooding which resulted in the

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SUPPLEMENTS - GEOLOGY Geology of Mont-Albert The geological formation of Mont Albert corresponds to an ancient ocean floor. During the first phase of formation of the Appalachians, the bottom of the Iapetus Ocean was carted and transported over the Mount Logan Tablecloth by powerful tectonic thrusts. The rocks of Mount Albert are made up of this oceanic crust.

How can an ocean floor end up on top of a mountain?

From the mid-Ordovician era (geologic age, -460 Ma), the Iapetus Ocean stops expanding and begins to close. The oceanic crust is then subjected to strong tectonic pressures which fold it, break it and transport it to the Laurentia continent. Certain portions of the oceanic crust are transported in the form of trust sheets. One of them is carried over the Logan Water Table in a phenomenon called obduction and becomes the Mount Albert Water Table. Most of the oceanic crust was recycled into the Earth's mantle after plunging under the Laurentia continent into a huge oceanic trench called the subduction zone and of which no trace remains. The closure of the Iapetus Ocean gave rise to a gigantic continental collision responsible for the formation of the Taconian range. The sheet of Mount Albert and that it surmounts (Logan) were buried under a considerable thickness of rock formations carted and deformed.

It was only during the very long erosion sequence that followed that the differential erosion was able to highlight this witness fragment of the ancient ocean floor. These rocks, harder than the surrounding rock formations, form the backbone of the Mont Chics-Chocs.

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Source : Histoire de la formation des Appalaches (Université Laval)

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Sainte-Anne waterfall.

The waterfall was the result of a break in slope linked to a fault between the cushion basalts and the limestones.

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Lac aux Américains

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Lac aux Américains. Geomorphology The Lac aux Américains amphitheater is a glacial cirque that results from the erosion of bedrock by a cirque glacier. A glacial cirque is a semi-circular depression bordered by steep slopes produced by abrasion and dislodgement of boulders at the base of the glacier.

The glacial erosion was concentrated at the bottom of the depression and at the bottom of the slopes, which explains the trough profile of the depression.

The portions of slopes that dominated the glacier evolved under the influence of cryoclasty (fragmentation of rock under the effect of freeze-thaw cycles), avalanches and rockfall. The Lac aux Américains cirque is part of a group of cirques that cut the sides of the McGerrigle Mountains massif.

The Lac aux Américains cirque glacier fed a valley glacier which built a small frontal moraine at the exit of the cirque. The glacier was fed by the accumulation of solid precipitation. Initially, the accumulations of perennial snow (last for more than a year) subsist at the bottom of a depression and compact to turn into a neve. The accumulation of snow and then snowfields always in the same place increases the pressure on the snowfield which eventually turns into ice. This is how glaciers are born and evolve over hundreds and thousands of years. This glacier, moved by gravity and internal creep, begins to erode the bedrock and to imprint a particular morphology on it.

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The Cirque du Lac aux Américains is the result of this slow process that spanned hundreds and thousands of years. This cirque fed a valley glacier which joined another larger valley glacier; that of the current Sainte-Anne river valley. The topography of the valley relates this episode of glacial erosion. The cirques that cut the circumference of the McGerrigle Mountains were occupied on at least two occasions, at the beginning and at the end of the last great glaciation. The last period of activity probably dates back to less than 10,000 years.

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Source : Inventaire patrimoine géomorphologique MRC Haute-Gaspésie, UQAR

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Geology and geomorphology of Mont Jacques-Cartier The second highest peak in Quebec, after Mount Iberville (1652 m), and the main summit of the granite massif of the McGerrigle Mountains, Mount Jacques-Cartier is the result of a magmatic intrusion during the Appalachian orogeny . This offers a subarctic landscape in the center of the Gaspé. There are, among other things, relics of a periglacial climate such as polygonal soils, striated soils and a deep boulder field. In addition, there is permafrost to a thickness of between 70 and 100 m.

From a geological point of view, the rocks found in the McGerrigle Mountains have specific characteristics that distinguish them from other regional rock formations in the Gaspé. The granite massif of the McGerrigle Mountains is unique in the territory of eastern Quebec. This corresponds to the intrusion of a batholith under the Appalachians 380 Ma ago. This batholith, which crystallized several kilometers deep within the young Appalachians, has since been unearthed by differential erosion.

A batholith corresponds to a rise of magma from the mantle through the earth's crust. In the case of the granite massif of Mont Jacques-Cartier, this magmatic rise occurred towards the end of the first two orogenic phases at the origin of the Appalachians in the Gaspé. ...

The composition of the granite rocks and the crystalline structure inform us that at this time the magma did not reach the surface and that it cooled very slowly at depth. Its summit was then found 7 km below the surface.

Since that time, erosion processes have cleared the more friable rocks that surrounded the intrusion (differential erosion ), which has helped to highlight the hard rocks of the McGerrigle Mountains, dominated in its northern part by the Mont JacquesCartier (1270 m) which corresponds to the roof of the intrusion.

The main metalliferous deposits of the Gaspé come from this granite intrusion. The copper deposits at Murdochville and the Madeleine mines are a direct result of the intrusion. The deposits are all located on the outskirts of the massif in the metamorphism halo. When the magma penetrates the cracks in the host rocks, a "cooking" takes place. This high pressure and high temperature firing changes the mineral structures of the rock, hence the term metamorphism . If water is present inside the cracks when the magma sets in, the metalliferous mineralization is very active; this is why the history of mineral exploration is so rich in the McGerrigle Mountains.

The last very active erosion sequence that contributed to the highlighting of the McGerrigle Mountains is the Quaternary period. Although this period is relatively short (1.6Ma), it still left deep marks in the territory. This geological period is characterized by significant and rapid climatic variations which have given rise to numerous ice ages. There have been no less than eight of them in a million years, but it is of course the last that has left the most visible traces in the landscape. Glaciers have a great erosive force and they can shape the territory, but their action is often very localized. From the top of Mont JacquesCartier, the erosive force of the glaciers of the last glaciation is easily appreciated.

Le pergélisol et les nombreux cycles gel-dégel qui affectent les hauts sommets gaspésiens ont favorisé le développement de nombreuses formes périglaciaires tels les talus d’éboulis, les champs de blocs, les glaciers rocheux, les sols polygonaux et les sols striés.

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Supplements - Geology Sorted and striated soils The block polygons that can be observed at the top of Mont Jacques-Cartier have a periglacial origin. The succession of freeze-thaw cycles generates variations in volume (swelling of waterlogged soils during freezing) which ultimately result in the materials being sorted according to their size. The centers of the polygons bulge slightly when the ground is frozen, and coarse particles are slowly drawn out by gravity.

Thus, after a few thousand cycles, an almost perfect sort is obtained. The center of evolved polygons is made up of loose soil while the partitions are made up of blocks (Fig. 1). The presence of waterproofing permafrost shallow below the surface aids cryogenic processes by keeping water available near the surface.

On horizontal surfaces, cryogenic processes tend to produce almost circular shapes. When the slope of the surface exceeds 2.5 to 3 °, the sorted soils evolve into elongated polygons then, past 5 °, they tear giving rise to parallel bands called striated soils (Figs. 2 and 3).

Figure 1. Polygons of sorted materials.

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Figure 2. Striated soil.

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Figure 3 Deformation of stone circles depending on the slope. When the slope exceeds 5 degrees, we move on to striped soils called striated soils.

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SUPPLEMENTS - HISTORY The enigma of the Mont Jacques-Cartier radar. 2nd WW Text from Marcel Descarreaux

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Many of you have set foot one day or another on the summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier, in Gaspésie National Park. The remains of the concrete foundation on the top of the mountain may have caught your curiosity. If you have inquired about their origin, you were probably told it was the ruins of an old radar station dating from the last world war.

In fact, the residents of the area never knew much about this story. It must be said that the soldiers involved at the time, probably all English-speaking, really never fraternized with the local population; first because of the language barrier, and second because of orders from senior officers not to do so. Since that time, and on many occasions, people from the Gaspé and elsewhere have wanted to know more from the federal authorities, but without much success. We can now consult some documents that were once out of sight. They reveal interesting things to us, without however telling us everything. We know, at least today, that the so-called "radar station" was in fact a wireless relay station that played an important role during the war years.

The Gaspé at war!

In the early 1940s, war raged in Europe. Our country supports England by sending massive troops, equipment and food of all kinds. Canadians, even those on the east coast of Canada, feel relatively safe due to the remoteness of the conflict. Everything will change when the German submarines come to spread terror on our coasts in an event known as the Battle of the St. Lawrence. In all, 28 Allied ships will be attacked and 23 sunk, causing hundreds of deaths in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Yet, even today, most Quebecers are completely unaware of the existence of this maritime battle which, more than 60 years ago, could have changed the course of history. It must be said that at the time, the Canadian government imposed censorship - and rightly so - on the press, to prevent reporting of these events which could have caused panic among the population. The Canadian military authorities had not anticipated such daring on the part of the Germans and were completely caught off guard. This is how these enemy submarines were able to spread terror along our coasts with impunity. More specifically on Quebec soil, sixteen ships were attacked between (approximately) Mont-Joli and Gaspé around the Gaspé peninsula, and three others near Pointe-des-Monts on the North Shore.

It all started off in a funny way. First, a distraught coastal fisherman reports seeing with his own eyes a stovepipe moving vertically in the water. A smarter lighthouse keeper quickly realizes that we are dealing with a submarine periscope and manages to make contact with the Royal Canadian Navy base in Gaspé.

Unfortunately, the Gaspé only speaks French and the English-speaking officer on the other end of the line only understands English. Ultimately, they are never understood. It was not until the first ship was sunk, with loss of life, on May 12, 1942 off Gaspé, for the Navy to understand that German submarines were sailing in our waters; the battle of the St. Lawrence had begun! Several of our allied ships will be attacked in the following months. There followed a lull in the St. Lawrence estuary in 1943, but the Germans returned in 1944 with other torpedoes on the North Shore.

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Supplements - History Gaspesians also experience war in another way, through thousands of military planes (more than 10,000) passing overhead. From Dorval, west of Montreal, at a newly constructed airport, countless bombers and transport planes headed for Scotland. They fly over the Gaspé Peninsula towards Goose Bay (Newfoundland) for a refueling stopover before heading towards Greenland and crossing the Atlantic.

Detachment of wireless relay no.1 This is the name (at least in its approximate translation) of the military installation set up on Mont Jacques-Cartier in 1943. The big challenge will be the construction and maintenance of an access road of about thirty kilometers. , between the village of Mont-Saint-Pierre and the top of the mountain. To make matters worse, the summer of 1943 was an extremely rainy summer, which made it even more difficult.

Refueling will always be a problem throughout the life of the station. As winter approaches, food will have to be stored on the mountain for the following months without outside supplies. During the cold season, the mail service is provided by people from Mont-Saint-Pierre, using dog sleds.

Nevertheless, from September of the same year, the station became operational to link by radio the military bases of the region (Bagotville, Mont-Joli, Sept-Iles, Matane, Mingan and Gaspé) and the many planes of the army flying over the region. On the top of the mountain are several temporary buildings and four huge radio towers. The men (we say up to 14 at a time) will live there permanently to operate and maintain the station known as the No. 1 Wireless Relay Detachment.

After the war All military activity on the mountain ceased with the defeat of Germany in 1945. During the following years, the facilities were left intact to eventually become a Canadian government weather station. Finally, in 1952, a call for tenders was issued for the demolition of all the facilities, which would put an end to the station's existence for good. A Rimouski businessman recovers, among other things, all telephone and electronic equipment. In the fall of 1975, the Canadian Army came to clean up the site of the base it had occupied 30 years earlier.

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Of what was the military installation on the top of the mountain, only a few concrete foundations remain. The park rangers picked up the last bits of junk that were left, because the caribou tended to lick them! It is hard to believe today that these places witnessed such a turbulent period in our history.

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Micmacs (Mi’kmaq) The Micmacs, or Lnu, are an indigenous people of the northeastern coast of America, part of the Algonquian peoples. Today, there are twenty-eight distinct groups of this ethnic group in Canada, and a single band, the Aroostook Band of Micmacs (en), in the United States.

Arriving over ten thousand years ago from the West via the Bering Strait, these "first men", as they called themselves, were already present in this part of the world long before the arrival of the Vikings and then the Europeans.

The Micmacs gradually settled on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. Then they conquered several regions of Canada: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, part of New Brunswick and the island of Newfoundland.

The Micmacs arrived in the Gaspé region around 3,000 years ago. At the time, they lived by hunting and fishing most of the year, as well as gathering shellfish and fruit. In winter, the Micmacs were nomadic, moving through the forest to hunt various animals, including moose and beaver.

Ethnonym “Micmac” means “my brothers” or “my friends”; this is the name given to a nation in Gaspésie, a word derived from Micmac meaning “end of the earth”8.

Variations of the name include "Migmagi", "Mickmaki", and "Mikmakique". There are several subgroups among the Micmacs, such as the Gaspesians of Le Clercq (in eastern Quebec), the Souriquois. 1 of the Jesuit tradition (in central and southern Nova Scotia). The term "Tarrantine" was introduced by the British in the 17th century.

The word micmac, of completely different origin, appeared in French in the 1640s. mutemac. When the French heard Micmac spoken in the Gaspé, they immediately thought of their meaning of the word, which in Canada took on the meaning of incomprehensible language.

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The deportation from Gaspé Mario Mimeault, Ph. D. Histoire. Gaspé, 25 juin 2002, 2017 The Seven Years' War (1741-1748) then that of the Conquest (1755-1760) marked the end of the French regime. Gaspésie is at the forefront. In the summer of 1755, Louisbourg fell and, starting in 1746, an English ship patrolled Gaspé Bay for two days. In July 1747, three privateers were driven back by force at Grande-Rivière. In 1755, the Acadians were deported from Nova Scotia and then, for a second time, the fall of Louisbourg and its inhabitants in the summer of 1758. The same summer, the English emptied Île Saint-Jean. Clearly, the British troops were preparing to move up the St. Lawrence and, to do so, secure their rear by eliminating any possible pocket of resistance. In September of the same year 1758, almost a year to the day before the famous Battle of the Plains of Abraham, there was the deportation from Gaspé.

The owner of the premises, Pierre Revol The main fishing establishment in the Bay of Gaspé belonged, in the summer of 1758, to a French Canadian named Pierre Revol. Exiled to New France for smuggling salt, this entrepreneur chose to trade and engage in cod fishing. He settled in Gaspé in 1752 and immediately brought forty men to the scene, but already in October of the same year, the authorities counted there at least three hundred people, not counting those who had spent the summer as seasonal fishermen.

The waters of the Gaspé not being the calmest, Revol appealed several times to the colonial authorities in the years that followed to provide him with protection. Intendant Bigot sent him in 1756 one hundred and twenty men “both French and Canadian” to form militia companies. The contingent is increased to two hundred men at the end of the year. In total, the Gaspé establishment then had at least five hundred people. The following summer, that of 1757, the fishermen deserted the post and supply difficulties forced the colonial government to repatriate its militiamen to Quebec. Only about sixty people remain with the owner of the premises to defend his installations. But what does this establishment look like? Is it so important?

The establishment of Gaspé (1758) It is possible to reconstruct with almost certainty the establishment of Pierre Revol in Gaspé Bay thanks to a map drawn up by General Wolfe's aide-de-camp.

At the northern entrance to the bay, at the top of Pointe de Forillon, on the side facing the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the government posted a sentry to watch for and warn of the arrival of enemies. Pierre Arbor lived there with his wife the previous summers, but, in the summer of 1758, there was no one in charge.

Revol needs all of its staff at its establishment. It will also be there that Wolfe will meet Arbor a few hours after his arrival in the Gaspé basin. At the end of Forillon, there are six houses at the place now called Anse-aux-Sauvages or Anses-aux-Amérindiens (Indian Cove). At least one family and five French people live there. There is also, just next door, Grande-Grave, a fishing station frequented mainly by European fishermen, but it is deserted that summer. Entering the bay, to the place now called Penouille, fishermen's huts were built, according to archaeological excavations carried out in the 1980s and 1990s.

Finally, in the northern arm of Gaspé Bay, now called the Dartmouth River, six other houses are located on either side of the body of water and two other dwellings at the bottom. Revol's main establishment is located at the mouth of the York River, near the marina today. An engraving by the expedition painter, Hervey Smyth, depicts his house, surrounded by four small fishing huts, a store and a forge. Inside the southern arm of Gaspé Bay (the Gaspé Basin today), several houses line the two shores, probably seven or eight. At the bottom, Revol had a sawmill rebuilt to replace the old one, which was in ruins. Boscawen wrote later, in the report of the expedition of the English troops to Gaspé, that there were seven houses there.

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The English threat In this summer of 1758, the English strategy is well known: find a point of support from which they can monitor the entrance to the St. Lawrence and thus cut off the French colony from its mother country. Montcalm's aide-de-camp, Monsieur de Bougainville, mentions this in a report on the measures to be taken in the event of an attack. Unfortunately, he is not listened to and, in any case, his opinion comes too late. At this time, Wolfe receives orders from Admiral Boscawen to go to the Gaspé coast to ward off the French presence, he comes with a squadron of fourteen ships. It was at his head that he landed there on September 4.

The English discover on their arrival the poor state of the small French colony. She is almost starving and Revol died a few days before. The troops seize the buildings without firing a shot. There are also 6,000 quintals of fish, ammunition, fishing tackle, animals. Pierre Arbor comes to tell them that the inhabitants have fled to the bottom of the bays. On September 7, Wolfe's men entered further into the southwest arm of Gaspé Bay (that of the York River) where they captured eight men. They find the Revol wood mill at the far end and set it on fire with all the planks and the houses around it. Returning with the prisoners to the shores of the bay, the soldiers find two women and their children. In the days that followed, the soldiers shared the prizes and a detachment captured twelve other Frenchmen, then the orders were given to burn everything, after which the army withdrew to Grande-Grave.

The fate of prisoners The toll of prisoners captured by Wolfe's soldiers is thirty-seven men, four women and five children, for a total of forty-six people. The other residents fled to Quebec through the woods. Admiral Boscawen puts the number of quintals of cod destroyed at 6,000. As he himself estimated a quintal of cod at 40 pounds on the Quebec market at the time, Revol would have made, if it had survived the disaster, gross profits of 240,000 pounds. A disaster from every point of view.

After the capture of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), the English organized the evacuation of Acadian prisoners to France, intending to leave all the weight of their upkeep to its monarch. When Wolfe returned to Louisbourg in the fall, all he had to do was put the prisoners from the Gaspé coast in the same boats as them. Only twenty-three people from Gaspé were however brought on board L'Antelope and disembarked at Saint-Malo on 1 November. What happened to the others? Nobody knows. In what condition did they cross the ocean? That only two out of eighty-three passengers were said to be healthy on arrival shows the severity of the conditions that prevailed. No Gaspesian is reported in good health on landing. What's more, one of them died during the passage and four others died in hospital in the following weeks. The other cases are sometimes pathetic. For example, that of Marie-Anne Peltier (sic): aged sixteen, mother of a young child, widowed and moreover pregnant at the time of her capture, she gave birth to a stillborn child en route to Saint Malo. All things considered, one may wonder, looking at this case, if this was a more enviable fate than that reserved for the Acadians of Nova Scotia.

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Fort Péninsule A little-known episode of the Second World War took place in Gaspé Bay. At the start of hostilities, National Defense requisitioned the site of the future Fort Péninsule and set up a coastal battery there to protect the port of Gaspé against a possible enemy attack.

Taking advantage of the natural advantages of Gaspé Bay, military strategists built a naval base there. Fixed defenses protect the approaches. This system includes an anti-submarine net stretched between Sandy Beach and Penouille and three coastal batteries: Fort Prével, Fort Haldimand and Fort Péninsule.

A strategic harbor A vast natural harbour, the Bay of Gaspé offers one of the best harbors in America. Well sheltered both by the relief of the coast and by the sandy points of Penouille and Sandy Beach, the Gaspé basin is easy to defend. In addition, ships of high tonnage can anchor there.

The defense is organized Taking advantage of the natural advantages of Gaspé Bay, military strategists built a naval base there. Fixed defenses protect the approaches. This system includes an anti-submarine net stretched between Sandy Beach and Penouille and three coastal batteries: Fort Prével, Fort Haldimand and Fort Péninsule.

On May 1, 1942, the naval base “H.M.C.S. Fort Ramsay” is officially inaugurated. Three months later, there are more than 2,000 men seconded by the three army corps (Navy, Army, Air Force). The fleet assigned to Gaspé includes 19 warships, including 5 mine sweepers, 6 "Fairmile" launches, an armed yacht and 7 corvettes. In addition, the Air Force also assigns some amphibious aircraft there.

The enemy at our doorstep On May 11, 1942, the German submarine U-553 torpedoed a first boat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The ship sank off Cloridorme, a small coastal village on the Gaspé Peninsula. Three hours later, the Dutch ship SS Leto met the same fate in nearby waters.

As soon as the high command of the Navy is informed of these events, a system of maritime convoys is set up. The port of Gaspé is chosen as the base for the escorts responsible for ensuring the safety of merchant ships on part of the Quebec – Sydney circuit.”

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The revolt of the fishermen of Rivière-au-Renard The Rivière-au-Renard revolt is an uprising of fishermen against the economic system of servitude to foreign companies, which occurred in Rivière-au-Renard in 1909.

Robin system Rivière-au-Renard, 1899 From the 18th century, fishing activities in Gaspésie were under Jersey control.

Charles Robin established a monopoly there, taking advantage of the administrative troubles during the Seven Years' Wars and the American Independence to secure a stranglehold on the market. He sets up the "Robin System", forcing a relationship of economic servitude between fishermen and merchants; the latter grant credit or pay in kind to the former, who are forced to buy at the company store. In order to prevent their families from going into too much debt, fishermen's wives and children are often put to work, without pay, during the processing stages. The Robin system, which kept the fishermen in an economic situation of dependence and poverty ― even slavery ―, was imitated by the other Gaspé fish traders. This system continued for at least the next century, under the auspices of elected officials, keeping fishermen in a spiral of debt continued from generation to generation.

Origin of the conflict In August 1909, the fishing companies reduced by 30% the price offered per quintal of dried salt cod, the main product traded by Fox fishermen. The fishermen are outraged. At the beginning of September, fishermen replied by demanding that the reduction be no more than 20%, and that no indebted fisherman would be dispossessed of his property.

Under the threat of seizing the property of the companies and forming a work cooperative, a group of fishermen made their demands known to the merchants Connick Kennedy and Horatio Hyman, then those of Charles Robin, Collas & Co. and William Fruing & Co. Co. All oppose them a categorical refusal.

Clashes Charles Brien, director of Fruing, concerted the other merchants, who decided to appeal to deputy Rodolphe Lemieux to solicit the support of the Royal Navy to defend them. The frigate Christine was mobilized on September 5 and arrived two days later. Meanwhile, the uprising turns into a riot. A merchant shoots a

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Arrived on the spot, the officers of the Christine send their command an alarmist report, which will immediately mobilize the boat Canada, a real warship with a crew of 75 sailors and officers and equipped with four guns. On September 11, the two warships anchored in the cove of Rivière-au-Renard. 40 soldiers landed, conducting searches and arresting 24 fishermen, five of whom are serving, after their trial described as a "masquerade", a sentence that varies between 8 and 11 months in prison.

Posterity The companies suffered the blow in the years that followed: the shareholders of Robin sold their shares to a merchant in Halifax, while Fruing went bankrupt in 1912. The price of fish rose from 1910 and reached a peak during the First World War. After 1925, the fishermen came together to form the first work cooperatives, helped by Bishop François-Xavier Ross.

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The sinking of the Carrick Text and photos : Monique Durand

Port of Sligo, North West Ireland, March 27, 1847. Molly holds her violin tight to her chest. It was the only treasure she took on the Carrick. Around her stand, huddled together, dozens of men, women and children of frightening thinness. But no one is really afraid anymore in this place. Because no one has the strength to be afraid anymore. Small people of skeletons who managed, exhausted and hungry, to walk to the port of Sligo and, we do not know how, are still standing.

The overcrowded ship pulls away from the coast with its load of ragged humanity. Amidst the stench and vomiting, Molly* stands still and stares at the horizon, her violin beside her. His whole family is on board: his father, Patrick Kavanagh, his mother, Sarah McDonald, his four sisters and his brother. They are among the 167 passengers fleeing to the New World because of the famine in Ireland.

The Great Famine lasted from 1845 to 1852, the result of the appearance of a parasite, called mildew, which almost completely destroyed potato crops, the staple food of the Irish at the time, and this, against a backdrop of all-out British imperialism. John Mitchel, Irish nationalist leader, wrote in 1860: “The Almighty sent mildew, but the English created famine. » The Carrick is a two-masted sailing ship, 87 feet in length, built in England in 1812. In history books, we sometimes see Karrick or Carrick's. The word "carrick" is derived from Gaelic meaning "rock". Specialists claim that it was the same Carrick who had already made the trip to Quebec in 1832 with passengers suffering from cholera on board. And say that they were the first victims of an epidemic which caused thousands of deaths here and forced the Quebec government to open, the same year, a quarantine station at Grosse-Île, opposite Montmagny, where thousands of emigrants from green Eire will find their last rest.

The boat crosses Donegal Bay. Molly doesn't even glance behind her. She does not want to. But images persist and come back to haunt her. She sees again this landlord come to snatch from his family their last bushels of wheat as rent.

All this wheat, and that of the neighbors, would then be transported to the ports under escort of the British army to be exported to the cities of England. While they were starving. Molly also remembers that recent morning when, looking serious, Patrick and Sarah announce to the children an incredible project: they would embark on a boat at the port of Sligo on their way to the Dominion of Canada where they would start a new life, they would not would take almost nothing with them. Like so many other compatriots, they would try to escape hell. A hell that will kill a million people and, in less than ten years, will lead nearly 2 million Irish people to flee their island, i.e. a quarter of its population.

Unimaginable bleeding.

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The ship finally reaches the great ocean with its cargo of sick people. A little water and a few cabbage leaves are distributed to passengers every day. At first they wallow on rations like beasts. But, the more the days pass, the more they weaken. They actually don't feel hungry anymore. Unsanitary conditions, pestilential odors, passengers lying everywhere struggling with typhus, dysentery or cholera, these Atlantic crossings were a horror. 100,000 Irish left their homeland for Quebec in the middle of the 19th century, aboard these coffin boats where they died like flies. In addition to the 5,400 who will die at GrosseÎle, 5,000 will expire on the sea.

On board these floating tombs, one can imagine that around the person who had just passed away, a small crowd of people so attached to their Catholic religion formed. To pray, to sing. Then the crew members would wrap the body in a canvas weighted with rocks and tip it overboard.

Molly had the idea, to say goodbye to the unfortunates who were going to be abandoned to the sea hordes, to play a few notes on the violin for each one. As the Carrick continued west, Molly fiddled for the dead. Then everything stopped short on the bridges, young and old frozen in their pose, some closing their eyes, they listened to the notes fly away in the firmament like a requiem. Then we heard the puddle of the dead swaying in the sea.

But fate had other miseries in store for the passengers of the Carrick. Now, after several weeks of crossing, the sky becomes dangerously cloudy and the sea becomes rough. The sailboat is soon nothing more than a wisp of straw tossed about by the monstrous waves and a raging wind, accompanied by snow. On April 28, 1847 – although some people rather report the date as May 19 – the Carrick was shipwrecked on the reefs of Cap-des-Rosiers, on the tip of Gaspésie.

Only 48 people survive. 87 bodies are rejected by the sea and will be buried in a mass grave. Patrick Kavanagh and Sarah McDonald lose their five daughters.

Only their 12-year-old son Martin survived. The couple did not want to go any further and settled in Cap-des-Rosiers itself. Patrick and Sarah will have four more children in Gaspésie, including a little James.____ ________________ * Molly is a fictitious name. The author of these lines could not find the names of one or other of the five drowned daughters of Patrick and Sarah from specialized sites. She also imagined that the young girl had played the violin on the Carrick, which seems quite probable in the eyes of the experts. The violin transited, for a time, to Ile aux Perroquets and is now with a descendant of Patrick Kavanagh.

Article complet The bones of 21 castaways from the Carricks will be buried on the beach at Cap-des-Rosiers on July 4. This moment will be the occasion for the descendants of the survivors to offer the castaways the official burial they never had.

Last week, Parks Canada confirmed that the bones found in 2011 and 2016 in Forillon National Park are indeed those of the castaways of the Irish ship Carricks, which ran aground off Cap-des-Rosiers in 1847.

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Plan for the destruction of the cities of Quebec, Gaspé, … during the 2nd world war In 1942, the Canadian government had decided to resort to scorched earth tactics and to sacrifice Newfoundland if the Nazis had invaded the country. This is revealed by documents that until recently were considered “top secret”. The cities of Quebec and Gaspé, among others, were also targeted by this policy.

Arms and ammunition, food stocks, hospitals, wharves and other facilities, both civilian and military, would have been destroyed with clubs, dynamite and fire before the Germans could take the island of Newfoundland. The invaders would have found only a territory razed by the flames.

Six Canadian cities - Quebec and Gaspé as well as Halifax, Sydney and Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Saint John, New Brunswick, as well as airports on the West Coast (in the event of a Japanese attack) were also listed list of sites targeted by the policy, but detailed plans were destroyed after 1944, with the disappearance of the threat of invasion.

Only the Newfoundland plans remain, probably because during the Second World War, Newfoundland was not part of Confederation. All Canadian provinces have been ordered to dispose of documents pertaining to this policy.

The secret has just been lifted on approximately 200 pages of these documents, which are in the National Archives, and will appear in the July edition of the journal L'Archiviste.

The decision to adopt this plan was made in 1942, when German U-boats were attacking ships along the east coast of North America.

In 1942, the British government circulated its "Instructions to Certain Colonial Dependencies on the Scorched Earth Policy". On March 20, the Canadian War Cabinet Committee, headed by then-Prime Minister Mackenzie King, approved the policy.

The plan included the burning down of the town of Saint John, Newfoundland, much of which was made up of wooden buildings. To keep the Germans away from the port of Saint-Jean - one of the most strategic at the time - two or three merchant ships, filled with stones and cement, were sunk at the entrance to the port. As for the residents of Saint-Jean - about 40,000 at the time - they were not informed of the strategy, which included a plan for evacuating the population on board merchant ships.

Any compensation to the civilian population for the loss of their property was postponed until after the war.

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Investigation to determine the cause of the aerial tragedy at St-Octave-de-l’Avenir (1957) Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers are currently guarding the wreckage of the twin-engine Aero-Commander which crashed on March 5 on a peak in the mountains of St-Octave-de-l'Avenir, in Gaspésie, causing the death of pilot John Rober Kovel, 28, of Buffalo N-Y and co-pilot Peter J. Lorenz, 40, of Burbank, Calif.

Three countries are interested in the downing of this plane. These are Iran, to which the two airmen were heading to deliver the aircraft they were in charge of; Canada, where the accident occurred, and finally the United States where the two victims live. Following the coroner's inquest, chaired by Dr. Delphis Miville, of Cap-Chat, investigator William Gordon of the Federal Department of Transport is currently pursuing research to establish the causes of this tragedy, which is attributed to the moment of the snowstorm in which the two American airmen were surprised.

The latter two had left New York and were heading for Goose Bay to then go to Iran. His last message had been picked up by the Sept-Iles airport at 9:55 a.m. The pilot Kovel mentioned that he was going through a snowstorm. …

It is mentioned that the bodies of victims and the debris of the plane were brought back to SteAnne-des-Monts by teams of police officers and citizens. The work was difficult and very exhausting. It took more than eight hours to walk up the mountain and back with the bodies. …

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Brother Marie-Victorin's explorations of the Haute-Gaspésie region Born Conrad Kirouac, Brother Marie-Victorin (1885-1944) was an avant-garde cleric and a renowned scientist. As part of its mission to inventory the various botanical species of Quebec, the remote and picturesque Gaspésie appears as an essential field of research. Moreover, in his most famous publication Flore laurentienne, he held the peninsula to be a very promising region for plant science. He describes it as an authentic phytogeographical province.

His discovery of botany Since the very beginning of the 20th century, Marie-Victorin has discovered, learned and had a passion for botany.

Until the end of the 1930s, he cherished a great dream: to write La Flore laurentienne. From then on, he takes all the means to perfect his knowledge. His copious and inexhaustible correspondence with the greatest European and North American scientists will serve him greatly. The most eminent of his correspondents is undoubtedly Professor M.L. Fernald of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. The latter has trod the soil of Haut-Gaspés many times; his knowledge of the flora of eastern Quebec is the most complete. The patient research of the prestigious Boston institution “has made known in the Gaspé Peninsula the existence of a whole alpine and calcareous flora closely linked to that of the Rockies (…)”. The American never ceases to recommend this place to the young Quebec religious. In the summer of 1923, Fernald and Marie-Victorin narrowly missed their first meeting: a few weeks apart, they were both exploring the interior of Gaspésie. During the expedition, the last even finds the paper of the first in the path that leads to Mount Albert. The two men became loyal collaborators and Marie-Victorin even gave lectures at Harvard.

Although he is the greatest botanist in eastern North America, Fernald is certainly not the only one interested in our part of the country. The Harvard Library contains publications resulting from the trips that have been made to Monts Jacques-Cartier and Monts Albert since the middle of the 19th century. Among others, the contribution of Arthur Allen is considerable. The New York State Geological Survey and the American Museum of Natural History of New York also undertake studies of the Gaspé Peninsula.

His discovery of Gaspésie In the summer of 1919, Marie-Victorin made her first trip to the Great Peninsula. Fernald's insistence seems to have convinced the Quebecer and his team. However, few traces bear witness to these peregrinations. My mirror, his diary, was silent from 1918 to 1920: the founding of the Botanical Institute of the University of Montreal combined with his increasingly numerous activities seemed to disrupt his daily literary activity. However, in a book devoted to the founder of the Botanical Garden, Robert Rumilly tells us that "with particular curiosity, (he travels through Gaspésie and the Îles-de-la-Madeleine): the isolation makes these regions geographical entities , well-designed observation grounds. (…) Travelers are not disappointed. Saint-Joachin-des-Tourelles; Riviere-a-Claude; Mont-Saint-Pierre; Cap-des-Rosiers: each stage reveals new wonders”. For example, he discovered Arnica gaspensis, almost unknown outside of Gaspésie.

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In fragile health, Marie-Victorin emerged weakened from this hard journey.

On August 7, the suffering began: with regret he had to leave the expedition. Heading towards Europe, in May 1929, his memories come flooding back: “We pass in front of the Gaspé, the Shikshoks (sic). It reminds me of 1923, my stay at Mont Albert, the dreamy flora of the Grand Plateau, my nervous fall, my descent from sick Plaqué towards civilization (…) and the terrible four months that followed (…).

His return to Haute-Gaspésie In 1940, the “explorer brother” returned to Haute-Gaspésie; he now knows the territory. Nevertheless, the new road linking Sainte-Anne-des-Monts to the National Park enchants him greatly: the portage of a few days is no longer necessary. Marie-Victorin also evokes her happiness to see again “the old ladies (Pelletier) and their mother”, owners of the hotel À la Bonne table. From this end of summer, we rather remember, on the other hand, its herborization on the coast: the Fonds de Cap-Chat, in the capes between Tourelle and Marsoui (disappointed at not being able to scrutinize everything, lack of time), Rivière-à -Claude (very interesting harvest and observations) and Mont-Saint-Pierre. He spends a good time in the maple grove of this last locality which he finds after two years. There are the “flayed” ones too; they are stormed by mountaineers.

We then testify passionately to the biological complexity of the place. Color photographs abound. Finally, an unusual discovery on the beach of Mont-Louis: the

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Cold but beautiful night. This morning again, the north wind is icy, and a little fanning in the sheet metal stove is not a luxury. » An unfortunate element for the historical researcher, Marie-Victorin is hardly an ethnologist, but a scientist almost entirely focused on his field of study: in general, he is very stingy in the details of everyday life. For example, when he landed at the wharf of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, in August 1923, he did not deign to mention the construction of a vast granite basilica (although he lived in the village for nearly twelve hours) . On the other hand, his displeasure on a fact hardly goes unnoticed and his pen can slip in a very virulent way. Thus, his blunt description of poverty in Tourelle in 1940 can easily shock some, while for others, it appears as a precious testimony of this time.

Marie-Victorin's northern Gaspé expeditions are anything but ordinary. He seems to be the first French-speaking scientist to climb the high peaks of the Gaspé. Haloed by his great achievements (the Montreal Botanical Garden, the Laurentian Flora and his many scientific works), he contributes to the influence of Quebec in the world. Its presence in Haute-Gaspésie is therefore an important part of our regional history which will, moreover, have an impact on the universal history of botany. ▬ * The author would like to thank three valuable contributors to the documentation of this article: Ms. Monique Voyer, archivist at the Université de Montréal; Mr. Gilles Beaudet, Brother of the Écoles chrétiennes and Mr. François Boulanger, Director of the Parc national de la Gaspésie .

Source : La Presse, 1er juin 1998

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The Torpedo of St-Yvon (1942) During the Second World War, the St. Lawrence River witnessed several tragic events. Crisscrossing the Gulf and the estuary of the St. Lawrence, the German submarine U-517, leaving Kiel in Germany on August 8, 1942, is commanded by Lieutenant Commander Paul Härtwig, a very competent but drunkard man.

At the end of the afternoon, Thursday, September 8, the inhabitants of St-Yvon had the unpleasant surprise of being visited by a submarine. The Meadcliffe Hall, a boat apparently laden with pulpwood, was heading upriver towards Quebec. The submarine took aim at the boat but the captain, knowing that enemy submarines were criss-crossing the St. Lawrence, barely had time to deflect its course and position himself across, thus protecting himself from the torpedo. The captain of the boat continued his race in slow motion with the greatest precaution and his concern about the threat of another disaster causing him to stop later at the quay of Petite-Vallée.

Meanwhile, in St-Yvon, a few men coming from the east side of the village saw the unknown object moving at breakneck speed and they ran to the shore believing they saw a whale. But soon they realized that it was a torpedo and they hastened to run in the opposite direction. The destructive machine reached the cape to make an irreparable breach. The carcass jumped back and came to rest about 701 meters from the point outside the cove, thus finding itself completely submerged.

The detonation was very violent and caused serious damage: land vibrated under the impact, rocks flew through the air for a few hundred meters causing damage to some residences, cupboards were overturned and crockery shattered. was there was broken. For Mr. Robert Clavet and Mrs. Marie-Anne Minville, their late daughter Winnifred being displayed on the boards was littered with items taken down from the walls. It was also a mess with the animals. The detonation was not felt only in St-Yvon. Three kilometers further, in Cloridorme, was the building of the united fishermen where workers, leaning against a wall to wait for the fish truck, were so shaken that they thought it had hit the factory. Truckers arriving late from St-Yvon announced the visit of the torpedo. For three days, two men of the Canadian Army kept watch for fear of the reappearance of the enemy.

During his visit to Gaspé in September 1966, Mr. Jean-Louis Aubert said that on September 5, 1942, there were only two German submarines in the St. Lawrence River: U-517 and the U-165.

The first, U-517, which had left its base in Kiel, Germany on August 8, 1942, was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Paut Härtwig. On August 26, he came in sight of Belle-Ilse and sank a transport ship three days later. He was in sight of Cap d'Anticosti.

On September 4, he received depth charges from a Canadian warship. As of September 5, slipping between the columns of a convoy, he had only four torpedoes and his shot was faulty. In the afternoon, he fired his last salvo and the torpedo missed the mark.

At this time, another German ship was in this area but only one Canadian warship sank. But the torpedo hit the target: the U-165. So, in this case, it is indeed the German submarine U-517. Many people wondered why a submarine had just torpedoed a boat in a small village along the coast. It was that he had IAT-QC-Topo+

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On September 11, 1942, in the village of St-Yvon, Mr. Rock Côté, an ambitious and courageous citizen, had the wonderful idea of trying to reconstruct the torpedo. He persisted with ardor, his tenacity and his persistence earned him complete success in the execution of his project. The first piece to emerge was the exterior of the carcass where two propellers were attached. Mr. Côté grabbed the frame with a grappling hook and towed it to the shore and brought it up to his house. A fortnight later, in calm weather and clear water, he saw the engine and maneuvered in the same way as he had done to recover the carcass.

The recovered parts were part of a German G7A torpedo, used by German submarines during the 2nd World War which were mainly used for night attacks.

You could see the torpedo at Mr. Côté's in a building built for this purpose, but since 1987, we can visit it at the Musée de la Gaspésie..

Source : Tourist information panels, Route 132

Two other U-boats, U-517 and U-165, wreaked havoc. In the early hours of August 27, in the northern Gulf, U-517 sank the American troop carrier Chatham (only 13 of the 562 passengers and crew perished), and U-165 attacked the bulk of the convoy, sinking one ship and crippling another, which would later be finished off by U-517.

The submarine U-517 escaped destruction in Forteau Bay where the corvette Weyburn was located which failed to obtain ASDIC contact. It was this same impossibility of obtaining acoustic contact that again saved the submarine several days later, after it had attacked the small Quebec-Labrador convoy NL-6.

Weyburn ran into U-517 which was about to torpedo Donald Stewart, and forced her to barely dive the launched torpedoes. The steamer sank, and the Weyburn was unable to find the submarine. Tony German, one of the junior officers who was on the bridge of the Weyburn that day explained: “On the Weyburn, we did not pick up any ASDIC pings and yet we saw the submarine twice; there was no mistaking it. » In September, the submarines U-517 and U-165 settled in the St. Lawrence and let the convoys come to them. The first was QS-33, which lost a ship and the armed yacht HMCS Raccoon, both sunk by U-165, on September 7 off Cap-Chat. The following day, U-517 sank three ships of the convoy off Cape Gaspé.

German radio gloated, calling the Canadian escort fleet a third-class fleet. Four days later, U-517 sank the corvette Charlottetown in broad daylight off Cape Gaspé.

Then, on 15 September, U-517 attacked convoy SQ-36 by silently drifting towards it, taking advantage of the west-to-east flow of the river and the forward motion of the convoy; he sank two ships in this way. U-165, informed of the advance of the convoy, made a daylight dive attack, hitting three ships.

No naval counter-attack could put an end to the exploits of these two intrepid submariners.

In many cases, the escorts were there, saw the submarine dive, and yet the search ASDICs could not penetrate the complex layers of the ocean. A German Uboat commander later explained that, in the Gulf, once the U-boat had penetrated the 50-foot "layer" it was safe, as in the "bosom of Abraham".

Source : La bataille de l’Atlantique, de 1939 à 1945

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Le chemin du Grand Sault In 1916, Charles W. Mullen, president of the Great Eastern Paper Company, wanted to build a paper mill on the Madeleine waterfront. But he didn't get permission to float his lumber on the stretch of river that runs through the seigneury. He had to erect it on the Grand Sault instead.

The agreement also prohibited him from building his railroad within half a mile of the river. The track then had to follow a dangerous route that cost a fortune to build and operate.

Virtually all of the road cut by the company's hundreds of workers in 1917 and 1918 would have been used for the 25-metre-high bridge to facilitate train passage.

Even so, the railroad remained a risky venture. In 1921, the locomotive skidded down a slope. An engineer died in the accident.

The Grand Sault Mill's railroad was one of the main reasons for its commercial failure..

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SUPPLEMENTS - GLOSSARY Barachois

A barachois is a term used in Atlantic Canada to describe a coastal lagoon partially or totally separated from the ocean by a sand or shingle bar. Salt water may enter the barachois during high tide Barachois is an Acadian French word likely coming from the Basque barratxoa (“little bar”).

Basalt

Volcanic rock, very dark (often almost black). It is the main constituent of the oceanic crust.

Basalt forms in volcanoes when lava flows cool. When the volcano is under the sea, the basalts have a particular, rounded shape, we speak of "cushion basalt". This rounded shape is caused by the rapid cooling of lava in the water.

Brunisol Limestone Colluvium

Brown soils, or brunisols, are the classic form of evolved soil found under deciduous forests in temperate zones.

Limestones are sedimentary rocks, just like sandstones or gypsum, easily soluble in water.

A colluvium or a slope deposit is a loose deposit on a slope, put in place by gravity.

Cryogenic

Processes generated by freeze-thaw cycles.

Echouerie

It is a very evocative Canadianism that is only found in Gaspésie, the Magdalen Islands and on the North Shore, in other words, only in the fishing community. Two places in Gaspésie have inherited the toponym. A cove in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts is simply called L'Échouerie and a parish, further east, is called Saint-Maurice de L'Échouerie. Nicolas Bélin makes it possible to trace one of the oldest uses of it by designating with this name a place, on one of his maps, where the sea wolves came to rest.

These beaches being made of sand, the people of Gaspé, on returning from their fishing, have developed the habit of pulling their boats to their highest point so as to place them out of the reach of the waves for the night. In Saint-Maurice, people explain the name a little differently: “…because of the strong ebb tides, at certain times of the year, the boats anchored in the small cove, lined with reefs of this village, beached and slept on their sides until the rising tide returned. » Source : Encyclobec

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Erosion is referred to as differential when it progresses at different speeds depending on the hardness of the rocks.

Mt J. Cartier

The last ice age is a period of global cooling or glaciation. It begins about 110,000 years ago and ends about 10,000 years ago.

Fernald

Iapetus

Ocean existing in the Carboniferous and Permian (between -252 and -359 Ma) between North America and Eurafrica.

Krummholz

Krummholz (from German: krumm: crooked, bent, crooked and Holz: wood) is a term used to describe the stunted and unusually shaped stature of trees subjected to the stresses of wind, low temperatures, snow, usually at the forest line in mountainous or coastal regions.

Laurentia

Paleocontinent (former landmass) forming the basis of North America.

Loupe (Burl)

This deformation, called "loupe (in french)" is nothing more than a disruption of the cambium (a layer of tissue located between the wood and the bark), which has started to create a whirlwind proliferation of cells, creating thus a large ball of wood (sometimes deformed).

These bumps are simply benign growths that do not affect the growth of the tree in any way. Botanically, it is a disorder that disrupts a terminal bud, thereby altering the genetic material of a future branch or the entire tree.

Metamorphism

The transformation of rocks under the effect of pressure and heat. Metamorphism generates various minerals, many of which have economic value.

Moraine

A pile of rocky debris eroded and carried by a glacier.

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Significant set of geological layers that have detached from the bedrock and have moved over great distances.

Theoretical evolution towards the stage of a thrust sheet: A. B. C. D.

Undisturbed sedimentary rock layers.

Lateral pressure causes open folds to form.

Pressure increases and spilled creases appear.

Appearance of a reverse thrust fault.

E. Thrust sheet

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Neve

Intermediate stage of metamorphism between snow and ice.

Nunatak

A nunatak (in Greenlandic nunataq meaning "mountain" or "mound completely covered with hardened ice") is a rocky mountain or peak rising above the ice of ice sheets, ice fields or ice caps.

Obduction

This term also refers to any non-glacial surface surrounded by glaciers.

The overlap of a continental crust by an oceanic crust.

Olivine

Olivine is a mineral whose name comes from its olive green color.

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Réserve écolog.

Manche d’Épée

Geological era from -488 to -443 Ma. The Ordovician geological strata today contain vast reservoirs of oil and natural gas in certain regions of the world. It corresponds to a time when the global ocean and the Earth's atmosphere cooled, together with an explosion of biodiversity on the planet. The Ordovician begins with an episode of major species extinction and ends with another massive extinction where 60% of genera and 85% of species disappear.

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Set of mountain formation mechanisms.

Appalachian orogeny

Orogeny that formed the Appalachians.

Orography

Orography is the field of geomorphology and physical geography concerning the description of mountains.

Periglacial

A climate is considered periglacial when the mean annual temperatures are below -5° C. (23° F.)

Régosol

Raw mineral soil, eroded or climatic (desert), on unconsolidated material, resulting from the disintegration of soft rock or a sandy or silty input.

Sedimentary rocks

Sedimentary rocks arise from the accumulation of sediments which are most often deposited in layers or superimposed beds, called strata. They result from the accumulation of various sediments.

A shale is a rock which has the particularity of having a flaky appearance, and of breaking up into thin plates or "rocky sheets".

Shale Serpentine

Subduction

Metamorphic rock (magnesium silicate) with a dark green mass traversed by small fibrous veins. A rare rock in Quebec and around the world. It has toxic characteristics for most plants, but on the other hand constitutes a favorable medium for certain rare plants.

The process by which an oceanic tectonic plate curves and plunges under another plate before sinking into the mantle.

Bedrock

The geological formation on which the land rests.

Till

Glacial deposit left directly by ice, and consisting of clay, sand, gravel and boulders mixed in any proportion

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PORTRAITS Alfonse, Jean

Jean Fonteneau, known as Alfonse de Saintonge, or Jean Alfonse in Portuguese, was a naturalized French explorer in the service of the Kingdom of France.

By the 1540s, he was a renowned captain, capable of leading a fleet to the Gold Coast or the West Indies, and who never lost a ship.

His reputation for knowledge of trade routes led François I to recruit him as a "captain pilot". During the winter of 1542-1543, Alfonse served as pilot to Jean-François de la Rocque de Roberval, who, following in Jacques Cartier's footsteps, hoped to found a colony in Canada. Alfonse demonstrates the existence of a navigable strait between Greenland and the Labrador coast. His crew of 200 men and women, including a few prisoners, had to winter in extremely harsh conditions on the banks of the St. Lawrence. Decimated by scurvy, a quarter of the crew perished before returning to France.

Source : Wikipedia

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Apalaches

Matane

St-Laurent

The Apalachee were a Native American tribe who lived in the Apalachee Province within the present-day state of Florida until they were largely wiped out and dispersed in the 18th century.

They lived between the Aucilla and Ochlockonee rivers, north of Apalachee Bay, and were first encountered by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. The Apalachee spoke an extinct language, Apalachee, documented in writings from the Spanish colonial period.

In the 18th century, the Apalachees were subdued by the Spanish and Christianized. But in 1703, English settlers invaded the region and massacred many Appalachee, deporting others into slavery. The survivors took refuge with the French, first in Pensacola, then in Mobile.

They later settled in Louisiana. Another group had fled to the Veracruz region of Mexico in 1763, when the Spanish evacuated Florida.

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Bayfield, Henry Wolsey

Henry Wolsey Bayfield, born January 21, 1795 in Hull (England) and died February 10, 1885 in Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island), was a British naval officer of the 18th and 19th centuries.

He was not yet eleven years old when he enlisted as a supernumerary gentleman on the Royal Navy's HMS Pompey.

From 1827 to 1840, Bayfield devoted himself entirely to this immense task of carrying out hydrography between Montreal and Newfoundland. During these fourteen years, its activities covered the north shore of the river, Lake Saint-Pierre, the ports of Montreal and Quebec, the Saguenay, the north shore of Gaspésie, the Strait of Belle-Isle, the Labrador coast of Belle-Isle to Cap St-Lewis, part of the west coast of Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Magdalen Islands, Chaleur Bay, the coast of New Brunswick and the Mirachimi Rivers, Restigouche, Richibouctou and their main ports.

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Supplements - Glossary His logbook recounts the extreme conditions of the company: mosquitoes and black flies are a daily ordeal, serious accidents sometimes leading to amputations occur on board, epidemics break out, refueling is often late, the crew sees its pay reduced by the military hierarchy and, above all, this mission whose ultimate goal is to prevent shipwrecks itself narrowly escapes disaster several times.

Source : Wikipedia.

Bellin, JacquesNicolas

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, born in 1703 in Paris and died on March 21, 1772 in Versailles, was a French hydrographer cartographer.

During a 50-year career, he drew the maps for several major works of his time, such as Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France de Charlevoix (1744) or Histoire générale des voyages de l'abbé Prévost (published between 1746 and 1759). He is the most copied cartographer of the 18th century.

His maps of Canada and the French territories of North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are of considerable value. This is all the more remarkable since, the archetypal cabinet cartographer, Bellin never came to America. For his cartography of the St. Lawrence River, he entrusted navigators with handwritten maps to correct and enrich. With each return of these cards, he updated his knowledge. His cartography of North America is driven by two fundamental needs: to secure navigation on the St. Lawrence River and to claim for France the lands explored by the French in the Great Lakes region and along the Mississippi River.

Source : Wikipedia.

Appalaches

Blanchard, Raoul

Forillon

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Raoul Blanchard, born in Orléans in 1877 and died in Paris in 1965, is a French geographer. Teaching at the University of Grenoble from 1906, he was particularly interested in the Flemish Maritime Plain, the French Alps and Quebec.

Raoul Blanchard was then appointed professor of geography at Harvard University in Massachusetts. In 1929 he became interested in Canada. In view of his French-speaking roots and the work facilities offered to him, Blanchard greatly appreciated working on this vast territory of the dominion still untouched by any geographical study. Until 1960, he stayed fifteen times in Quebec. This is how he began to produce documents on Quebec using a strictly geographical method. During five autumns, from 1929 to 1933, Blanchard traveled through Quebec, including the Gaspé twice, on foot and by car. He also went twice to the north shore of the St. Lawrence and to Natashquan. As a man accustomed to Europe, he was very interested in the novelty of the subject that was then Quebec. In 1930, he published “Presqu’île de Gaspé” in the journal Géographie alpine. It was, in this magazine, the first of a long series of articles on Canada and more particularly on Quebec.

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Supplements - Glossary Thereafter, Raoul Blanchard gives conferences in Montreal. In 1947, he agreed to found an Institute of Geography at the University of Montreal, which in 1962 would become the Department of Geography.

Raoul Blanchard is considered the father of modern geography in Quebec. Thanks to him, Quebec has numerous works on its geography. To thank him for this contribution, the Commission de toponymie du Québec gave his name to a mountain 1,166 meters above sea level, the highest peak in the Laurentians, and the geography department of the University of Montreal honored him. giving its name to its largest classroom.

Source : Wikipedia

Chic-Chocs

Cartier, Jacques

Mont de la Table

We don't know how Jacques Cartier was introduced to navigation, but Saint-Malo, the town where he was born between summer and winter 1491, was one of Europe's most important ports at the time. In 1524, he is said to have accompanied Giovanni da Verrazzano on the unofficial explorations undertaken by the King of France. Some ten years later, Jacques Cartier was an experienced enough navigator for François 1er to ask him to undertake the official exploration of North America. There's no doubt that the sea route he took in 1534 was already familiar to him.

Jacques Cartier, engraving attributed to Pierre-Louis Morin, circa 1854.

The first voyage (1534) On March 19, 1534, Cartier was commissioned to "make a voyage from this kingdom to the New Lands to discover certain islands and countries where it is said that there must be a large quantity of gold and other rich things".

Cartier then proceeded to Chaleur Bay, where on July 7 he met the Micmacs. The talks were accompanied by exchanges that history has recorded as the first commercial gesture between the French and the Amerindians. Shortly afterwards, Cartier reached Gaspé Bay.

Over 200 Iroquois from Stadaconé (Quebec) had come to the peninsula to fish. Confident and cordial at first, relations soured when, on July 24, Jacques Cartier took possession of the territory. The 30-foot-high cross he erected at Pointe-Penouille seemed inappropriate to Donnacona, the native chief. Fearing the consequences of this discontent, Cartier lies, describing the cross as an insignificant landmark.

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The second voyage (1535-1536) The second voyage took place in 1535-1536 and began on May 19. The expedition comprised three ships, La Petite Hermine (60 tons), L'Émérillon (40 tons) and the vessel carrying Cartier, La Grande Hermine (120 tons).

Fifteen months of provisions were planned. Brought back from France by Cartier, Chief Donnacona's two "sons" (nephews?), Taignoagny and Domagaya, now speak French. Using their knowledge, Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence, discovering that he was navigating a river when the water became fresh. On September 3, he wrote in his logbook that he had seen beluga whales in the river.

The third voyage (1541-1542) Donnacona, who understood what the French were looking for (gold, gems, spices), gave them the description they wanted to hear: that of the rich kingdom of Saguenay. François I was persuaded to launch a third expedition, this time with instructions to establish a colony.

In the meantime, Cartier accumulated "gold and diamonds", which he negotiated with the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. He had the ore appraised in France, only to learn that he had brought back worthless pyrite and quartz. His misadventure gave rise to the expression "false as Canadian diamonds"... and to the present-day toponym, "Cap Diamant", for the eastern end of the Quebec promontory.

Source : Wikipedia et Virtual museum of New France

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Catalogne, Gédéon de

Gaspé

Restigouche

St-Laurent river

Gédéon de Catalogne was a French surveyor, cartographer, seigneur and officer, born in 1663 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and died on July 5, 1729 in Louisbourg, Acadia. He spent most of his life in New France.

In 1700, the Sulpicians, lords of Montreal, commissioned him to dig a canal to Lachine (Canal de Lachine), but technical difficulties prevented him from completing the task.

Appointed lieutenant in 1704, he surveyed the colony's seigneuries, then drew up plans for Montreal and helped build its fortifications.

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A park named after him in Montreal, near the Lachine Canal. 45° 28′ 19″ N, 73° 35′ 00″ O Source : Wikipedia

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Champlain, Samuel de

Ste-Anne-des-Monts

Not belonging to the nobility, Champlain acted as a subordinate of a noble designated by the king. He was thus “lieutenant of the viceroy of New France” then from 1629 “commander in New France” in the absence of Cardinal de Richelieu. Local administrator of the city of Quebec until his death, he never received the official title of governor of New France, even if he exercised the functions.

The difficulties encountered in undertaking a colonization of North America were numerous, and it was not until the summers of 1634 and 1635, in the last eighteen months of his life, that Champlain saw his dream of colonization materialize, with the arrival and establishment of a few dozen settler families. His determination to establish a French colony in North America earned him, since the middle of the 19th century, the nickname of “Father of New France”.

(He founded Quebec, Trois-Rivières, was the victim of an assassination attempt. He made 12 trips to New France… in the comfort of the boats of the time!!! Had to like coming to visit us…)

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St-Laurent river

Aymar de Clermont-Chaste, Lord of Gessans and La Bretonnière, who died in 1603, was a Catholic gentleman, Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and French naval officer of the 16th and 17th centuries. He served in the wars between Spain and France between 1582 and 1598.

Despite the fact that he was a brother of the Knights Hospitaller, therefore a monk having pronounced the required vows, among others of chastity, he left several natural children pensioned by Henri IV and legitimized by Louis XIII. In 16033, he inherited the privileges of Pierre de Chauvin, receiving from Henri IV the title of Viceroy of New France. To carry out his project of colonization of Canada, he formed the company of Monts, in which entered very rich merchants. François Gravé was given command of the expedition, Samuel de Champlain was hired as a simple observer. They left Honfleur on March 15, 1603. Arrived in Canada, they left their vessels in Tadoussac, and went up the St. Lawrence River by boat to Sault Saint-Louis, near the future Montreal. These explorers drew up maps and sought the most favorable place for a settlement.

Aymar de Chaste developed the fur trade and the French dominated this market for more than ten years. He died on May 13, 1603 before the expedition returned to France.

Source : Wikipédia.

Chauvin, Pierre de

Pierre de Chauvin, sieur de Tonnetuit, born in Dieppe (Normandy, France) before 1575 and died in Honfleur in February 1603, is a captain of the French navy and army, lieutenant-general of New France.

Huguenot, Pierre de Chauvin requested, in 1599, a commission from King Henri IV to obtain a ten-year monopoly on the fur trade in New France, which was granted to him on condition of founding a colony there and establishing The catholic religion. De Chauvin kept none of his promises, and focused exclusively on the fur trade in Tadoussac, which he founded in 1600.

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Dansereau, Pierre

Pierre Dansereau is a Quebec ecologist and professor, recognized for his research on ecosystems and as one of the pioneers of interdisciplinarity in ecology.

He worked at the Montreal Botanical Garden from 1939 to 1942, with Marie-Victorin.

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Supplements - Glossary From 1940 to 1950, he taught ecology at the University of Montreal. There he founded and directed the Service de “biogéographie du Québec” from 1943 to 1950. His study of the ecology of the Laurentian maple grove in the early 1940s earned him a good start in notoriety as a scientist.

He will have taught in twenty universities on five continents and numerous missions have taken him to South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and China.

Dansereau emphasized throughout his life the importance of the phenomena of collaboration between living species, thus matching the dynamics of interspecies competition valued by Darwin, and advocated the need to bring together in an integrated vision humans and other living species.

In 2001, he was the subject of the National Film Board of Canada's documentary Quelques raisons d'espérer (Some Reasons for Hope).

The Encyclopedia Britannica presents him as one of the founders of contemporary ecology and the Biographical Center of Cambridge (England) describes him as one of the 2,000 researchers who have most marked the 20th century.

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Denys, Nicolas

Nicolas Denys was a French explorer, merchant and fishing industrialist in Canada, governor, lieutenant-general for the king, and owner of part of Acadia and Canada. He was one of North America's first entrepreneurs, as well as a great geographer and observer of the region's natural history.

In 1650, Nicolas Denys was appointed Lieutenant-Governor by Louis XIV. During his time in Acadia, Denys founded the settlements of PortRossignol, Miscou, Chedabouctou, Saint-Pierre, Sainte-Anne and Nipisiguit in New Brunswick.

His fortunes took a turn for the worse when his rival, Emmanuel Le Borgne, seized his Port-Royal holdings by force of arms in 1654, while Nicolas Denys was at Sainte-Anne. That same year, Louis XIV officially recognized Nicolas Denys' claim to the properties confiscated by Le Borgne10. Le Borgne was ordered to return all seized property to Nicolas Denys.

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Jean Deshayes (1650-1706); scientist, cartographer, hydrographer and geographer to the king.

Jean Deshayes' mission on his 1685 voyage was to map the St. Lawrence River and its environs. Deshayes used state-of-the-art scientific instruments to accomplish this important task. He also used triangulation to trace the river's banks, thus carrying out the first modern geographical and geodetic work on the St. Lawrence between Quebec City and Lake Ontario.

For some two centuries now, Canadian historians have been asserting that in 1665, the colony's first "Chemin du Roy" from Chambly to Montreal passed through... Longueuil, without any of them developing the slightest credible proof to back up this assertion.

Finally, after 335 years in the archives of the Archives de la Marine in France, an ancient map resurfaces to conclude the synthesis of New France's first overland route.

Source : Société d’histoire de La Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine

Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis

Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin was a hydrographer and geographer in the service of the King of France, in Québec City, a small French colonial town in North America. Over a period of more than 30 years, he drew some 50 geographical maps of New France and its environs.

In collaboration with Louis Jolliet, he drew a map of the St. Lawrence River, on which a maritime route was indicated to avoid shipwrecks.

He took part in the war effort against England, notably by mapping the New England coast7.

Returning to France in late 1692 to complete his drawings, he asked to be joined by his wife and children. The following year, his family perished in the shipwreck of the Corossol, near Corossol Island in the Seven Islands archipelago.

Source : Wikipedia

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Frontenac, Louis de Buade de

L’Anse-aux-Griffons

Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac and Palluau, born in 1622 at the Château de SaintGermain-en-Laye (France) and died in 1698 in Quebec, was a French soldier and administrator.

Twice appointed governor of New France by King Louis XIV of France, he developed the colony and defended it against English attacks, notably during the Battle of Quebec in 1690.

Debts were a constant preoccupation of Frontenac during his life. In 1653, for this reason, he sold the office of colonel of his regiment. King Louis XIV was no doubt in a hurry to see him leave France for another reason. Madame de Montespan did not leave Frontenac indifferent, and he even had an adulterous relationship with her before she was the favorite of the Sun King.

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Supplements - Glossary The first government On April 7, 1672, Louis de Frontenac obtained from Louis XIV the office of Governor General of New France. The income he derived from this office was quite modest. (24,000 pounds). However, he improved his situation because he had succeeded in obtaining an order from the Council of State which lifted the seizure of his property and granted him a reprieve to repay his debts.

Frontenac understood very quickly what the fur trade could bring to the West. Without informing the minister, he established, a year after his arrival, a trading post on Lake Ontario, named Fort Frontenac (or Cataracoui)i, where the town of Kingston is located. The fur traders and the inhabitants of Montreal were very unhappy.

Frontenac's abuses of authority multiplied during this first government and eventually became known to the Court. The governor was severely blamed.

At the end of his first mandate, the situation of the colony became worrying. As it expanded westward, it came into conflict with the Iroquois who were determined to take control of the Ohio Valley.

The second government After a seven-year interregnum, the Count returned to New France in 1689, when France and England were officially at war.

He must defend New France against the Iroquois who continued their devastating incursions against the settlements. Four months after Frontenac's appointment, on August 4, 1689, the infamous “Massacre de Lachine” took place, during which Iroquois unexpectedly attacked the French settlement, killing large numbers of people and wreaking havoc.

He also had to ward off possible attacks from the English colonies, while providing military aid to the Amerindian allies in the West.

In January 1690, Frontenac launched an attack against the English border settlements. He attacks three small establishments, far apart from each other: Schenectady (New York), Salmon Falls (Maine) and Fort Loyal (Casco Bay). The farms and the houses are destroyed, the colonists massacred, and some prisoners are brought back. Useful for boosting the morale of the colony, they aroused an anger in the English establishments which could only push them to attack.

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Supplements - Glossary Québec battle The English therefore devised a campaign plan by land and sea against New France.

Phips' fleet sailed up the St. Lawrence and besieged Quebec on October 16, 1690.

Frontenac, who was able to regroup all the colony's military forces, organized the defense of the city. On October 16, the English admiral sent an emissary to the governor bearing a summons drawn up in advance. Frontenac tricks the delegate into believing that there are many more soldiers in Quebec than there really were.

The next day, reinforcements led by M. de Callières arrived from Montreal. But on October 18, the English from Phips landed at Beauport, while four of their ships bombarded Quebec. The attack lasts three days, it is a failure and Phips leaves New France for good.

Source : Wikipedia

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Hazeur, François

Seigneurie Anse de l’Étang

Eminent merchant of Quebec, entrepreneur, seigneur, member of the Compagnie du Nord and the Compagnie de la Colonie, councilor to the Superior Council, born in France around 1638, died in Quebec, June 28, 1708.

He was especially concerned with the fur trade, outfitting numerous boats bound for the West and buying fur-trading leaves from their original holders. Hazeur was not long in joining the Compagnie du Nord, as soon as it was formed in 1682; the purpose of the company was to exploit the trade in Hudson Bay. In 1688 and 1689 Hazeur began to diversify his economic interests. With Soumande and Grignon, he formed a company which obtained the monopoly of the seigneury of Malbaie, a region with thick forests whose varieties of wood lent themselves particularly well to shipbuilding.

Under the direction of the three partners, the seigniory soon became the most important center of the lumber industry in Canada. Two sawmills, sheds and buildings were erected there, and roads were opened; 25 to 30 men worked there. In 1689, Hazeur let it be known that the seigneury could produce 30,000 feet of planks, 2,000 feet of planking and up to a hundred masts annually.

For thirty years, François Hazeur was, of all the businessmen of New France at that time, one of the most eminent, and also one of the most daring; had it not been for his disastrous experiences in the lumber industry, the fisheries, and the Tadoussac fur trade, he might have amassed a considerable fortune. These failures should not be blamed on his incompetence, but rather on unfavorable economic conditions at that time Source : Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

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James Kempt (c. 1765 - December 20, 1854) was a British colonial officer and administrator who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia and Governor General of British North America.

Kempt approached his position in Quebec as he had in Halifax, that is, with an open mind and a certain confidence. In November 1828, he confirmed Louis-Joseph Papineau as President of the Legislative Assembly, and accepted the Assembly's finance bill. In addition, in 1829 he authorized the redrawing of electoral districts from 27 to 45, while the number of MNAs rose from 50 to 84. These arrangements were seen in London as dangerous concessions to the French Canadians.

Throughout his two-year term, Kempt strove to mediate and govern in a non-partisan, nonpassionate manner. For the most part, he succeeded. In the summer of 1830, he reminded the Colonial Secretary of his desire to return to Britain before the autumn. His wish was granted, and Kempt transferred his powers to Lord Aylmer on October 20, 1830.

Source : Wikipedia

Le Clercq, Chrétien

Chrétien Le Clercq (before 1655 † after 1698) was a French religious of the Order of Recollets Friars Minor. He is known as the author of First establishment of the faith in New France (in 2 volumes) and New relation of Gaspésie (1691). In this last account of his missionary work, he describes the way of life of the Micmacs of Quebec, whom he calls “Gaspésiens”. Bishop de Laval charged him with founding a mission among the Micmac Indians. He learned the language of this tribe and undertook its evangelization.

Source : Encyclobec

Léry, Chaussegros de

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (Québec, 1721 - 1797) was a military engineer and political figure in Lower Canada.

During the Seven Years' War, he proved to be an exceptional officer, and was one of the few colonial officers held in high esteem by the Marquis de Montcalm. In recognition of his military service, he was made a Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis in 1759.

In 1763, after the British conquest of New France, he and his wife, Louise Martel de Brouage, were the first Franco-Canadian couple to be presented at the English court, earning the compliment from King George III that, if all Canadian women resembled Mme de Léry, he had "indeed made a conquest".

Source : Wikipedia

Note: It should be noted that his father has the same first and last names and was also a military engineer in Quebec and Montreal.

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Frère Marie-Victorin (1885-19440, born Conrad Kirouac) was a Quebec religious, Christian Brother, botanist, teacher, university professor, intellectual and writer. In the 20th century, he is best known for his work in botany, which probably culminated in the publication of his Flore laurentienne and the development of the Marie-Victorin herbarium. He was the founder of the Jardin botanique de Montréal.

Source : Wikipedia

Pierre Dansereau

Matapédia ,Colonization of the valley…

Rolland-Germain

Mont Logan

From 1890 to 1920, the Matapedia Valley was occupied by a veritable invasion. At the end of the 19th century, the Matapedia was arguably the region of Quebec with the greatest untapped agricultural and forestry potential. The forest was being cut down by the lumber industry, and would-be settlers flocked to the new Eldorado from the old parishes along the estuary. In less than two generations, most of the primeval forest was ravaged and the best soils put under cultivation. In the 1950s, thousands of Matapedians were forced to leave their beloved valley, colonized by their grandparents just a few decades earlier.

For French and later British colonial authorities, the Matapedia Valley was of less interest than the Témiscouata Valley as a land link between the St. Lawrence Valley and the Maritimes. The Kempt Road, the first postal route built between Métis and Chaleur Bay in 1830-1832, was in fact only a narrow 160-kilometre track, not easily accessible to pack horses. It was the American Civil War in 1861 that prompted the government to build a new road, the "Matapediac Road", a first-class communication route that would pave the way for the construction of the Intercolonial Railway a few years later. Despite these first-rate roads, settlement of the valley was not immediate. The economic crisis of 1874 to 1895 did little to encourage timber settlement.

Source: Encyclobec

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Supplements - Glossary Moll, Herman

Herman Moll, probably born in 1654 and died on September 22, 1732 in London and an English cartographer of German or Dutch origin.

Herman Moll is known for his many, often elaborately prepared maps of Europe and America. In addition, he also made maps for Daniel Defoe for his novel Robinson Crusoe and for Jonathan Swift for his novel Gulliver's Travels.

Hermann Moll produced the "Atlas geographus" between 1711 and 1717, in five volumes and the "Atlas Minor" in 1719 Source : Wikipédia

Montmagny, Charles Hault de

Quebec's first official governor Charles Huault de Montmagny was one of the directors of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, which managed New France in the early days of the colony. In 1636, he became the first titular governor of New France, following the death of Samuel de Champlain, the "de facto" governor. His commission was signed by King Louis XIII, and he held this position until 1648.

It was Montmagny who set about turning the modest post established under his predecessor's reign into a real city. After defining the town's outlines, he designed streets that radiated out from a central point, Fort Saint-Louis, in the style of medieval towns.

The presence of the fort reassured the town's inhabitants. In 1636, the superior of the Jesuits wrote: "We have some very honest gentlemen, and a number of soldiers of good character and resolution; it's a pleasure to see them practicing war drills in the gentleness of peace, to hear the sound of musketades and cannons only for joy, our great woods and mountains responding to these blows with echoes, rolling like innocent thunders that have neither lightning nor lightning. The diane wakes us up every morning, and we see the sentries posted. The guardhouse is always well equipped: each squad has its duty days; in a word, our fortress of Quebec is guarded in peace like a place of importance in the ardor of war.”

The growing hostility of the Iroquois, who were able to obtain harquebuses from the Dutch, was to shatter this tranquillity. The defense of the colony remained a constant preoccupation for Governor Montmagny. In fact, this led him to oppose the founding of Montreal, which he considered a "mad venture".

Source : Histoire du Québec

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Supplements - Glossary Gouverneur Montmagny is one of the characters in Cyrano de Bergerac's novel Autre monde, published in 1657. This novel is considered the world's first science-fiction novel. At the start of the section entitled Histoire comique des Estats et empires de la Lune, Montmagny, who is about to attack the Iroquois, holds a philosophical conversation with Cyrano shortly before the latter takes off for the Moon in a space machine.

Source : Grand Québec

Potvin, Alain

A beautiful story of friendship ended with the death of four Quebec mountaineers who fell 1,000 meters under the horrified eyes of a game warden, Sunday morning, at Mount McKinley, in the heart of Alaska. .

“It's upsetting. These guys were more than friends to me. They were my brothers,” confided with emotion Yvon Méthot, the only survivor of this tragic expedition, joined by La Presse at his home in Sept-Iles last night.

“We had been preparing for two years for this great and beautiful project.

We knew all the emergency procedures. Nothing could happen,” added Mr. Méthot, who did not complete the climb for professional reasons.

Of the four victims, three were from Sept-Iles. They are Simon Proulx, a 42year-old physical education teacher, his son Christian, an 18-year-old CEGEP student, and Alain Potvin, a 38-year-old biologist. The other victim is a civil engineering technician from Montreal, Maurice Grandchamp, 29 years old.

The five members of the team had arrived in Alaska on May 16, and had undertaken in the following days to climb the mountain of 6400 meters of altitude. After getting used to the climate and altitude, in a camp set up 4600 meters from the summit, Yvon Méthot left the group last Thursday to return to Sept-Iles.

Before leaving, the others gave him a tape on which they recorded moving messages for their family and others praising their great friendship. "There is one who was crying and who said he regretted that I could not continue to climb," recalls Mr. Méthot.

The other four members of the group therefore climbed the last meters separating them from the summit. They did indeed reach it on Saturday evening, but it was on the way down the next day that they made their dramatic fall.

What could have happened? No one knows exactly yet, since neither the bodies nor the team's logbook have yet been recovered.

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Supplements - Glossary Certainly, the four victims had great experience in expeditions of all kinds and were extremely careful and careful, although some pointed out that they had never made such an ascent. “They may have been numbed by the effects of the altitude,” also explained Gilbert Rioux, who himself climbed to the highest peak in North America in 1983.

For his part, Yvon Méthot believes that they may have deviated from the classic route that mountaineers generally take, on Mount McKinley, without realizing it. Once at the mouth of a steeper route, one of them would have lost his footing, dragging the others who were attached to him into the void.

They were at 5800 meters when they tumbled. “A game warden saw them through his scoping glasses. They fell, a distance of 940 meters,” said McKinley Park spokesman John Quinley.

Searches were carried out yesterday and Monday with a view to recovering the bodies, but a snowstorm and an avalanche made the operation impossible. "By the end of the week, we will try to approach them again, indicated Mr. Quinley, but it would not be surprising if we could never find them..."

The small community of the Côte-Nord was in all its turmoil yesterday when it learned of the loss of these famous and long-praised characters. “It's been a long time since we had a disaster like that in Sept-Iles. These guys were so wonderful,” explained a friend of the group, Yvan Méthot (not to be confused with Yvon Méthot).

All mourned their death, but no one regretted the experience they had to live, "their most beautiful trip". “On the one hand, I'm happy because he left with wonderful landscapes in his head. And he left me a nice gift, ”dropped Alain Potvin's friend, Françoise Murray, who is expecting a baby from him next month.

“It's a stupid mountain accident. When they woke me up to tell me this sad news, it threw a shower of cold water on me. But on the other hand, all mountaineers know that accidents are part of the trip”, concluded Gilbert Rioux.

Raudot, Jacques

By Marie-Josée Godbout, Eric Trottier, Journal La Presse, le 3 juin 1992 Jacques Raudot, Intendant of New France from 1705 to 1711.

He attempted to reform the seigneurial and judicial systems, education, agriculture and the militia. Although sociable and cultured, he was emotional and easily offended. He has a low opinion of Canadians in general. Not appreciating Governor Vaudreuil's pre-eminent position, he spent the last years of his mandate in fruitless quarrels with him.

Source : Encyclopédie canadienne

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Jean-François de La Rocque, sieur de Roberval was born in France around 1500. According to some sources, he was born in Carcassonne, where his father was governor.

In 1541, despite his Protestant faith (he was born a Catholic, but converted to Protestantism), King François I appointed him lieutenantgeneral of Canada and entrusted him with the command of Jacques Cartier's third expedition to Canada. Curiously, the king charged Roberval with "spreading the holy Catholic faith", which may mean that Roberval had converted back to Catholicism.

Roberval's mission seemed simple: found a colony, build churches and fortified towns. To accomplish this mission, Roberval received a subsidy of 45,000 livres and chartered three ships: the Valentine, the Anne and the Lèchefraye.

Cartier was due to set sail again in May 1541, but Roberval delayed his departure to raise funds, and he left the port of La Rochelle in April 1542.

Cartier abandoned his settlement at Charlesbourg-Royal, and Cartier's and Roberval's ships met in the port of St. John's, Newfoundland, on June 8, 1542.

Informed of the abandonment of Charlesbourg, Roberval, with two hundred men, took possession of the post and decided to spend the winter there. This decision proved disastrous, as the cold, sickness and quarrels among the crew led to the deaths of several sailors.

According to sailors' testimonies, Captain Roberval was extremely cruel, forcing the men to work without rest, depriving them of food and water, and punishing those who faltered.

It is said that he had six sailors hanged for theft.

Roberval's severity may be explained by the fact that his colony was made up of convicts. He did, however, exercise his right of mercy in favor of Aussillon de Sauveterre, who killed a rebellious sailor. Sauveterre received a letter of remission for this act. This document, dated September 9, 1542, bears the signature of J. F. de La Roque and is the oldest official Canadian document.

Après une exploration en direction d’Hochelaga, alors que Roberval essaie de franchir les rapides de Lachine, il tente une exploration du Saguenay au cours de l’été 1543. Mais suite à l’échec de l’expédition, Roberval, ruiné, met fin à ses projets de colonisation du Canada.

On his return to France, François I entrusted him with rebuilding the fortifications of Senlis, then Paris. Later, Henri II appointed him superintendent of mines in France. However, in 1555, his property was mortgaged.

In 1560, he was killed in Paris in a street brawl between Catholics and Protestants at the start of the Wars of Religion.

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Jean Alfonse

This congregation was founded on November 3, 1831 in France by Father Louis Querbes… He laid the foundations of an association of catechists who will ensure the Christian education of children and the tasks assigned to parish clerks: preparation of offices, songs.

Supplements - Glossary The institute was expelled from France by the anti-Congregationist laws of the Third Republic; its churches, convents, schools, retirement homes, juniorates and provincialates were nationalized.

About thirty brothers left for Canada. The institute therefore expanded from its French origins to the United States and Canada, where it was still very present until the 1970s.

Source : Wikipédia.

Taché, EugèneÉtienne

Eugène-Étienne Taché, born October 25, 1836, was a Quebec land surveyor and architect. He was the son of Étienne-Paschal Taché, Father of Confederation.

He is known for having designed the Hôtel du Parlement du Québec, the former Palais de Justice (now the Gérard-D.-Levesque building belonging to the Ministère des Finances) and the Manège Militaire de Québec.

Source : Wikipedia

Vaudreuil, Pierre de Rigaud de

Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, born November 22, 1698 in Quebec and died August 4, 1778 in Paris, was marquis de Vaudreuil, officer of the Navy, governor of Trois-Rivières, governor of Louisiana and the last governor general of the New France. Of all the governors of New France, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil was the only one born in the colony.

In 1755, the Marquis de Vaudreuil became Governor-General of New France, he managed the colony during the Seven Years' War. The American colonies of France are one of the theaters of this war between France and England.

Source : Wikipedia

Vautrin, plan

The Vautrin Plan was a directed colonization plan implemented by the Quebec government between 1934 and 1937. The name was given in honor of Minister Irénée Vautrin, who was responsible for the project. In the midst of the Great Depression of 1929-1939, the government of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau hoped that the Vautrin plan would help the unemployed by allocating land for them to clear, cultivate and live on.

As early as 1933, several groups presented briefs to the Quebec government to promote a return to the land, but Taschereau's government was not in favor of such a plan.

Nevertheless, after much criticism and consultation, the Vautrin plan was finally implemented in 1934, and is considered the most important colonization effort of the decade.

For the Church, the installation of Catholic settlers on new lands enabled it to promote religion and extend its "field" of power..

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Supplements - Glossary Source : Wikipedia

Vimont, Barthélemy

Barthélemy Vimont, born January 1, 1594 in Lisieux and died July 13, 1667 in Vannes, was a French missionary.

He was the first to celebrate mass in Montreal in 1642. He participated in the founding of the first college in North America in 1635. During the peace talks with the Iroquois in 1645, he acted as an adviser to the governor Huault de Montmagny. On October 22, 1659, he returned, following health problems, to France where he would end his life.

Source : Wikipédia.

Parc Forillon Wolfe, James

Restigouche

James Wolfe, born January 2, 1727 in Westerham (Kent, England) and died September 13, 1759 in Quebec (New France), was a British general. During the Seven Years' War, he won the battle of the Plains of Abraham at the head of the British expeditionary force, which led to the fall of the city of Quebec and precipitated the loss for the French kingdom of New France. . He was mortally wounded during this battle.

Wolfe wielded the psychological weapon well, as demonstrated by his manifesto, which aimed above all to sow fear and terror in the hearts of the inhabitants.

Wolfe carried out his threats and all the farms along the St. Lawrence were burned down, which caused two winters of famine. John Knox's diary recounted the horror of hearing women and children screaming as they burned alive.

Contrary to what he claims, Wolfe will not spare any farm downstream from Quebec on either side of the St. Lawrence. Those who resisted him were killed, some hanged.

Source : Wikipedia

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IAT Volunteers In the municipality of Val-Brillant, located on the shores of Lake Matapédia, Gaétan Roy devotes himself to a one-of-a-kind outdoor infrastructure: the International Appalachian Trail – Quebec section (SIA), a 650 km long hiking trail which crosses the Gaspé from side to side.

Former industrial commissioner for the City of Amqui, Gaétan Roy has been deeply involved in the operation of the trail since his retirement in 2005. "Since its founding in the 1990s, I have always been challenged by this trail", recalls the 75year-old man who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty, in all seasons.

Although the SIA was developed entirely thanks to grants, everything still had to be done when Gaétan Roy joined the board of directors. The trail remains unknown to Gaspesians, who prefer snowmobiles to hiking boots. Its maintenance is complex due to its length and difficult access.

Gaétan Roy himself piloted the construction of a dozen shelters, from the request for subsidies to their construction in the wilderness. He erected and repaired many bridges and footbridges. He set himself challenges, such as the construction of an aerial cable crossing the Assemetquagan River. “It was a completely crazy construction! he laughs.

This Val-Brillantois, who is directly responsible for 135 km of the SIA, has a message to deliver to Quebecers: “Believe me or not, but it’s fun to do volunteer work! When I see what the trail has become, which has gone from a utopian project to a great success, which attracts hikers from all over the world, I am extremely proud of the path traveled by the SIA team. It highlights the Matapédia Valley,” he says.

The volunteers who get involved in this way are mainly men because the work in the field involves the use of chainsaws and pruning shears. But women are not left out. Clémence Pépin, 60, who lives in the splendid village of La Martre, in HauteGaspésie, is also part of the SIA volunteer squadron.

“In my opinion, this trail is a valuable asset for our children. It gives them a place to play”, says this ex-nurse, a great hiker in front of the eternal. This young retiree has her mind full of projects, including a school kit on the AIS. “Our team wants to introduce young people to the trail. This project is stimulating and extremely rewarding,” she says.

Source : Magazine Virage. Article complet

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SUPPLEMENTS - EVENTS Le Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée The Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée is an annual cultural event that is over thirty-five years old. It has become one of the most important, if not the most important event of its kind in Quebec.

The Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée originated from the Festival de la kinship, a local song festival created in 1983 and aimed specifically at young Gaspesians returning to the region after working in Montreal or Quebec.

Chic-Chocs Song (Daniel Boucher, Michel Rivard et Richard Séguin)

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This plant habitat is made up of escarpments located north of Premier Lac des Îles. Covering 6.31 hectares, it is located on public land dedicated to conservation, within Parc national de la Gaspésie. It is home to a population of a perennial herbaceous plant, Griscom's Arnica, a species endemic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The habitat, made up of walls cut into small ravines, is difficult to access, which facilitates its protection.

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Firewood

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2

4

2

4

2

*Lac Gros Ruisseau *Mont Craggy

4

2

4

2

*Lac Beaulieu

4

2

*Petit Sault

4

3

*Ruisseau Bascon

4

2

IAT-QC-Topo+

Off platform

IAT lodging

Gaspésie sector Location

Type and number of shelter places

La Nyctale

8

La Chouette

8

Notes Nb platforms

Wood stove

Firewood

Bed

Mattress

Water point

Drinkable

0

L’Arnica

2

Le Carouge

0

*Le Kalmia

1

Le Huard La Mésange

0

*Le Saule

4

IAT-QC-Topo+

Off platform

New 2023. Replace La Croisée shelter

IAT lodging

Gaspésie sector Location

Type and number of shelter places

Notes Nb platforms

Le Pluvier

0 La Paruline

2

*La Rivière Mt Albert Le Roselin

0

Le Tétras *La Camarine

2 *Mont-JacquesCartier

IAT-QC-Topo+

Wood stove

Firewood

Bed

Mattress

Water point

Drinkable

Abri-repas.

*Lac Cascapédia

*La Fougère

Off platform

IAT lodging

Haute-Gaspésie sector Location

Type and number of shelter places

Notes

Nb platforms

*Cabourons

8

1

*Ruisseau Flétan *Lac à Cyrille

4

2

4

2

*Grand-Sault

4

2

IAT-QC-Topo+

Off platform

Wood stove

Firewood

Bed

Mattress

Water point

Drinkable

Baril disponible pour l’eau, mais peut-être à sec

Eau: continuer environ 500m vers l’est sur la route

IAT lodging

Côte-Gaspé sector Location

Type and number of shelter places

Notes

Nb platforms

*Terrasses

4

2

*Cascades

8

0

*La Chute

4

2

*Zéphyr

8

0

*Carrières

4

2

*Érablière2

8

0

IAT-QC-Topo+

Off platform

Wood stove

Firewood

Bed

Mattress

Water point

Drinkable

Water near the shore on the right Water source uncertain. Creek 300m before.

IAT lodging

Forillon sector Location

Type and number of shelter places

Notes

Nb platforms

Off platform

Wood stove

Firewood

Bed

Mattress

Water point

Drinkable

Camping des Appalaches *Les Lacs

1

Bear box

*Crêtes-1

0

Water 800m NE. No shelter.

*Crêtes-2

0

Bear box

IAT-QC-Topo+

SERVICES Matapédia

Matane

Gaspésie

S

Haute-Gaspésie

Côte Gaspé

Forillon

Avignon sector Location Matapédia

Notes Nature Aventure

(418) 865-3554

20, rue de l’Église

Chez Casimir

(418) 865-2333

19, rue de l’Église

Gîte du Moulinet

(418) 865-2733

2, rue du Ruisselet

L’InterMarché

(418) 865-2915

21, rue de l’Église

Orléans Express

1-833-449-6444

14, boul Perron E

(418) 865-2063

10, Route du 4e Rang

Bureau de poste Pharmacie St-AndréRestigouche

Camping et refuge municipal

Bureau de poste FERMÉ

IAT-QC-Topo+

Post office closed in 2023.

Could reopen.

Services

Matapédia sector Location Causapscal

Notes Auberge La Coulée Douce

(418) 756-5270

21, rue Boudreau

Motel du Vallon

(418) 756-3433 1-866 519-3433 (418) 756-5621

609, route 132 ouest

(418) 756-3646

391, rue Saint-Jacques N

Spot Lunch

(418) 756-6253

608, route 132 ouest

Epicerie Richelieu

(418) 756-3861

78, rue Saint-Jacques Sud

Accros Plein-Air

(418) 756-0097

480, rue Saint-Jacques Nord

Via Rail

1-888 842-7245

142, rue Saint-Jacques Sud

Taxi Adaptée de la Vallée

(418) 631-9394

52, rue Garon

Quincaillerie Coop FERMÉ

(418) 756-3762

55, rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Site patrimonial de pêche Matawajaw Dépanneur du Lac

(418) 756-5999

53c, rue Saint-Jacques Sud

(418) 778-3232

263, rue St-Edmond

Auberge Beauséjour

(418) 629-5531

71, boul Saint-Benoit Ouest

Auberge Ambassadeur

1-888-588-6464

266, boul Saint-Benoit Ouest

Sélectotel Amqui

1-800-463-0831

340, boul Saint-Benoit Ouest

Camping Causapscal chez Moose Rest Chez Mamie

601, route 132 ouest

Outdoor gear

Bureau de poste Pharmacie

Lac-auSaumon Amqui

IAT-QC-Topo+

Closed march 2024

Hotel Gagnon

Services (418) 629-3434

232, boul Saint-Benoit Ouest

Abri-camping Amqui

(418) 629-3433

686, route 132 ouest

Vrac Vallée

(418) 629-1618

158, boul. Saint-Benoit Ouest

Via Rail

(418) 629-4242

209, boul. Saint-Benoit Ouest

Orléans Express

(418) 629-6767

219-1, boul. Saint-Benoit Est

Taxi de l’est

(418) 330-4444

12, boul Saint-Benoit Ouest

Taxi Rapido

(418) 629-4011

85, rue du Collège

InterSports

(418) 629-3252

102, boul Saint-Benoit Ouest

Coop de Solidarité

(418) 629-5002

1040C, route 195

St-René-de- Camps Tamagodi Matane

(418) 429-9340 (418) 224-3340

696, route 195

Bureau de poste Pharmacie

St-Vianney

IAT-QC-Topo+

Services

Matane sector Location Cap-Chat

Notes Chalets-Resto Valmont INCENDIÉ Juin 2023

(418) 786-1355

10, rue Notre-Dame Est

Gîte Au Crépuscule

239, rue Notre-Dame Ouest

Auberge Micho

(418) 786-5751 1 866 786-5751 (418) 786-5955

Gîte l’Aube Matinale

(418) 786-2445

52, rue Notre-Dame Est

La Maison Mer et Montagnes

(418) 786-3071

6, rue Notre-Dame Est

Gîte Domaine Joseph Ross

(418) 786-5340

238, route 132

Motel Nanook

104, rue Notre-Dame Est

Gîte Rêve et Réalité

(418) 786-2070 1 866 786-2071 (418) 786-2465

Gîte de la Maison verte

(418) 967-9975

86, rue des Écoliers

Gîte de l’Anse Mitan

216, rue Notre-Dame Est

190, rue Notre-Dame Est

Le Pirate

(418) 786-1411

184, rue Notre-Dame Est

Cabine Goëmons sur Mer

(418) 763-3556 1 888 893-5715 (418) 786-2272

195, rue Notre-Dame Est

(418) 786-5751

239, rue Notre-Dame Ouest

Chalets de l’Anse Blanche Chalets de La Petite Normandie Orléans Express Bureau de poste Pharmacie IAT-QC-Topo+

202, rue Notre-Dame Est

252, rue Notre-Dame Ouest

24, rue Notre-Dame Est

Services BMR Rénovex

IAT-QC-Topo+

(418) 786-5531

27, rue Notre Dame

Gaspésie sector Location Ste-Annedes-Monts

IAT-QC-Topo+

Notes Auberge Littoral Bistro

(418) 763-2613

170, 1re Avenue Ouest

Hôtel & cie

(418) 763-3321

90, boul. Sainte-Anne Ouest

Auberge Château Lamontagne

(418) 763-7666

170, 1re Avenue Est

Motel A la Brunante

1 800 463-0828

94, boul. Sainte-Anne Ouest

Motel Manoir sur Mer

(418) 763-7844

475, 1re Avenue Ouest

Motel Beaurivage

1 888 763-2291

245, 1re Avenue Ouest

Gîte La P’tite Falaise

(418) 763-5188

127, 2e Avenue Ouest

Auberge Seigneurie des Monts

(418) 763-5308

21, 1re Avenue Est

L’Estran

(418) 763-3261

43, 1re Avenue Est

Auberge du Vieux Faubourg

(418) 763-5345

45, 1re Avenue Ouest

Auberge internationale La Vieille Ecole Camping Ancre Jaune

(418) 763-7123

295, 1re Avenue Est

(418) 763-1813

2, rue Simard

Camping du Rivage

(418) 763-8387

500, 1re Avenue Ouest

Boulangerie Marie 4poches

(418) 763-4775

111, boul Sainte-Anne Ouest

Le Malbord

(418) 764-0022

178, 1re Avenue Ouest

Orléans Express Parc de la Gaspésie

Services 85, boul. Sainte-Anne Ouest (418) 763-9176

Taxi Mario

1-866-727-2427 (418) 763-7494 poste 3301 168, Route du Parc (418) 763-2630

Taxi Marie-Hélène

(418) 763-5310

180, rue Therrien

Taxi Pascal Fournier

1-877-870-2646 (418) 764-0660

111-9 1ère Ave Est

Nettoyeur Le Golfe

(418) 763-2666

29, Route du Parc

Rona Lafontaine

(418) 763-3428

2, Route Lavoie

Quincaillerie Keable

(418) 763-5535

168, 1re Avenue Ouest

Exploramer

(418) 763-2500

1, rue du Quai

Centre de découverte et services Gîte du MontAlbert

(418) 763-7811

Bureau de poste Pharmacies

Parc Gaspésie

(418) 763-2288 1-866-727-2427

IAT-QC-Topo+

Transport.de.personnes.sadm@gmail.com

Services

Haute-Gaspésie sector Location Mont StPierre

Notes Hotel/Motel Mont St-Pierre

(418) 797-2202

60, rue Prudent-Cloutier

Chalets Vermont

(418) 797-2810

24, rue Prudent-Cloutier

Motel Au Délice Resto Les Boucaniers

1-888-797-2955

100, rue Prudent-Cloutier

Motel Flots Bleus

(418) 797-2860

18, rue Prudent-Cloutier

Chalets Bernatchez

(418) 797-2733

12 rue Prudent-Cloutier

Le Refuge du Maudit Français

11, route Pierre Godefroi Coulombe

Cantine Sandy’s

(418) 967-5683

114, route 132

Camping municipal

(418) 797-2250

103, route Pierre-GodefroiCoulombe 70, rue Prudent Cloutier

30, 1re avenue Est

Gîtes des Neiges

(418) 797-2323 1-844-867-4319 (418) 797-2855

Chalets 4 saisons

(418) 393-2581

92, rue de l’Église

Chester Pizza

(418) 797-2376

12 rue de l’Eglise

Cantine de la Seigneurie 132 Camping Parc et Mer

(418) 797-2511

18 1re Avenue Ouest

(418) 797-5270

18, 10e rue Est

L’Epice-rit ML

(418) 797-2943

13, 1re Avenue Ouest

Marché Bonichoix Chez Julie Bureau de poste Mont Louis

IAT-QC-Topo+

Auberge-resto L’Amarée

107, rue de l’Église

Services (418) 797-5059

1, rue Chanoine Richard

(418) 797-2223

45, rue Principale

Hotel du Rocher

(418) 393-2425

53, rue principale

Le Relais d’Olivier, Bureau de poste

(418) 393-2411

117, rue Principale

Gîte Shoreline de la Terre à la Mer

(514) 970-8325

128, route Principale

Camping-Chalets Mer et Montagne

(514) 402-6174

99, route Principale

Auberge Chez Mamie

1-866-393-2212

195, rue Principale

Hotel Bon Accueil

(418) 393-2323

208, rue Principale

La Capitainerie des Deux Sœurs

(418) 393-2777

37, rue Bellevue

Hotel-Motel Grande Vallée

(418) 393-2648 1-800-380-1190 (418) 393-3008 1-800-795-3008 (418) 393-2670

37, rue du Quai

Orléans Express Bureau de poste Pharmacie GrosMorne

Marché Ami Bureau de poste

Manche D’Épée Madeleine Centre

Maison Rosa au bord de mer

Shack à guédilles Rivière-laMadeleine

GrandeVallée

Motel-Resto La Marée Haute Motel Richard

IAT-QC-Topo+

94, rue Saint-François-Xavier Est 36, rue Saint-François-Xavier Ouest

Camping Au Soleil couchant

73, rue Saint-François-Xavier Est

Marché Bonichoix

(418) 693-2010

2, rue St François-Xavier Ouest

Les Marchés Tradition

(418) 393-2851

14, rue St François-Xavier Est

Orléans Express

(418) 393-2010

2, rue Saint-François-Xavier Ouest

Bureau de poste Pharmacie

IAT-QC-Topo+

Services (418) 393-2489

Bateau Frederika Lensen

Côte Gaspé sector Location PetiteVallée

Notes Motel du Villlage

(418) 393-2592

17, rue Principale

Auberge Chez Madame Lola

(418) 361-2956

66, rue Principale

Gîte Pétales de Lune sur mer

1-855-993-3223

117, rue Principale

Pourvoirie Beauséjour

(418) 393-2347

135, rue Principale

Camping de la Falaise

(418) 361-2956

4, rue de la Falaise

Café de la Vieille Forge Cloridorme

Closed

4, rue de la Longue Pointe

Rest. Motel Etoile du Nord

(418) 395-2966

1, route du Pêcheur

Cantine du Pêcheur

(418) 395-2121

16, route du Quai

Club sandwich au homard

Cuisinette

Bureau de poste Saint-Yvon

Motel du Cap

1-866-395-2990

907, route QC-132

L’Anse-àValleau

Motel-Camping des Ancêtres

(418) 355-9747

865, boul. Anse-à-Valleau

SaintMaurice de l’Échouerie

Gîte Le Clocher d’Argent

(418) 269-5676 1-866-284-5676 (418) 269-3434

36, chemin de l’Eglise

Marché Bonichoix Bureau de poste

IAT-QC-Topo+

420, boul. Petit Cap

Services

Forillon sector Location Rivière-auRenard

Notes Gîte du Renard

(418) 882-9070

92, boul. Renard Est

Camping des Appalaches

(418) 269-7775 1-866-828-7775 (418) 360-5153

367, Montée de Rivière-Morris

Microbrasserie Au Frontibus La Cantine du Quai

41, rue du Banc 2, rue de la Langevin

Cantine chez Cathy

(418) 269-5518

216, Montée de Rivière-Morris

Marché Alban Aspirault

(418) 269-3202

42, boul. Renard Est

Épicerie Gaétan Boulay

(418) 269-3654

77, boul. Renard Est

Orléans Express

(418) 269-3138

127, boul. Renard Ouest

Taxi Déry

(418) 269-3348

41, Montée de Rivière-Morris

589, boul. du Griffon

Café de l’Anse

(418) 892-5531 1-855-892-5531 (418) 892-0115

Motel du Haut Phare

(418) 892-5533

1334, boul. de Cap des Rosiers

Gîte Pétales de Rose

(418) 892-5031

1184, boul. de Cap des Rosiers

Hôtel Motel Le Pharillon

(418) 892-5200 1 877 909-5200

1293, boul. de Cap des Rosiers

Bureau de poste Pharmacie L’Anse-auGriffon

Cap-desRosiers

Motel Le Noroit

Havre de Forillon

IAT-QC-Topo+

Isobutane

557, boul. Du Griffon

1428, boul. de Cap des Rosiers)

Livraison au Camping des Appalaches

Services Cap-auxOs

IAT-QC-Topo+

Auberge internationale Forillon Auberge La Petite école de Forillon

(581) 822-0292

2095 blv Grande Grève

(418) 892-5451 (418) 892-0077

1826, boul. Forillon

Cuisine commune

Walking time Section - 2 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Matapédia St-André-Restigouche Ref. Le Turcotte

16,5 1,5

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

895 54

660 0

612 52

442 52

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

11h20 0h55

9h40 0h40

8h35 0h35

7h50 0h30

7h10 0h30

Walking time Section - 2 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Turcotte St-André-Restigouche Matapédia Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

1,5 52 16,5 612 300 m/h

52 442

54 895

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2

0 0h55 660 11h Descent time:

2,5

3

0h50 0h40 9h25 8h20 500 m/h

3,5

4

0h35 7h30

0h30 6h55

Anse aux Gascons. Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1942

IAT-QC-Topo+

Walking time Section - 4 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Corbeau Ruisseau St-Etienne Ref. Le Quartz

12 4,2

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

443 47

0 0

606 60

477 0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

6h55 2h05

5h50 1h40

4h55 1h25

4h25 1h10

3h55 1h05

Walking time Section - 4 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Quartz Ruisseau St-Etienne Ref. Le Corbeau Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

4,2 60 12 606 300 m/h

0 477

47 0 443 0 Descent time:

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2 2h05 7h35

2,5

3

1h40 1h25 6h25 5h35 500 m/h

3,5

4

1h10 5h

1h05 4h35

Walking time Section - 5 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Quartz Ref. du Ruisseau Creux

11,4

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

744

599

686

594

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

8h55

7h40

6h55

6h25

6h

Walking time Section - 5 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. du Ruisseau Creux Ref. Le Quartz Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

744 599 Descent time:

8h55

11,4 686 300 m/h

594

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

7h40 6h55 500 m/h

3,5

4

6h25

6h

Walking time Section - 6 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

From Ref. du Ruisseau Creux Abri Ste-Marguerite

10,7

343

0

76

0

5h25

4h20

3h35

3h05

2h40

Abri Causapscal

17,5

291

0

572

0

8h50

7h

5h50

5h

4h25

Walking time Section - 6 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

From Abri Causapscal Abri Ste-Marguerite

17,5

572

0

291

Ref. du Ruisseau Creux

10,7

76

0

343

Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Forillon

300 m/h

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

0

8h50

7h

5h50

5h

4h25

0

5h25

4h20

3h35

3h05

2h40

Descent time:

500 m/h

Walking time Section - 7 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Causapscal Camping Chez Moose Abri Les Chutes

2,6 16,2

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

36 410

0 375

7 341

0 149

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

1h20 9h35

1h 8h

0h55 6h55

0h40 6h10

0h40 5h35

Walking time Section - 7 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Les Chutes Camping Chez Moose Abri Causapscal Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

16,2 341 2,6 7 300 m/h

>= 7% (m)

149 0

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

2

410 375 36 0 Descent time:

9h20 1h20

2,5

3

7h40 6h35 1h 0h55 500 m/h

3,5

4

5h55 0h40

5h20 0h40

Walking time Section - 8 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

Dénivelé + Total

>= 7%

11,2 10,4

159 282

Total

Vitesse de marche (km/h)

>= 7%

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

0 127

5h35 5h40

4h30 4h40

3h40 3h55

3h10 3h30

2h50 3h05

(m)

0 73

62 278

Walking time Section - 8 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Érablière JCT Lac au Saumon Abri St-Alexandre Abri Les Chutes

3,8 10,4 11,2

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

>= 7% (m)

86 278 62

Forillon

Dénivelé -

(m)

From Abri Les Chutes Abri St-Alexandre JCT Lac au Saumon

To

Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

50 127 0

To Matapédia

74 282 159

22 73 0

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

2h05 5h50 5h35

1h40 4h40 4h30

1h30 4h 3h40

1h20 3h30 3h10

1h10 3h10 2h50

Walking time Section - 8 Segments secondaires Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

JCT ->Abri Lac au Saumon

IAT-QC-Topo+

3,9

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

>= 7% (m)

15

>= 7% (m)

0

199

Walking speed (km/h)

185

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

2h20

1h55

1h40

1h30

1h20

Walking time Section - 9 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Érablière Abri camping Amqui

18,1

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

224

0

383

0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

9h05

7h10

6h

5h10

4h30

Walking time Section - 9 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri camping Amqui Abri Érablière Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

18,1 383 300 m/h

>= 7% (m)

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

0

Forillon

224 0 Descent time:

2 9h05

2,5

3

3,5

4

7h10 6h 500 m/h

5h10

4h30

Walking time Section - 10 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri camping Amqui Abri Les Trois Sœurs Abri St-Vianney

16,2 11,2

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

258 185

0 0

127 232

0 75

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

8h05 5h50

6h30 4h35

5h25 3h55

4h35 3h25

4h 2h55

Walking time Section - 10 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri St-Vianney Abri Les Trois Sœurs Abri camping Amqui Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

11,2 232 16,2 127 300 m/h

>= 7% (m)

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

75 0

Forillon

185 0 258 0 Descent time:

2 5h55 8h05

2,5

3

4h40 3h55 6h30 5h25 500 m/h

3,5

4

3h30 4h35

3h 4h

Walking time Section - 11 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri St-Vianney Camps Tamagodi Accueil John Abri Rivière Matane

9,8 6,6 1

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

185 60 5

95 0 0

368 29 15

0 0 0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

5h10 3h20 0h30

4h10 2h35 0h25

3h35 2h10 0h20

3h05 1h55 0h20

2h50 1h40 0h20

Walking time Section - 11 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Rivière Matane Accueil John Camps Tamagodi Abri St-Vianney Ascent time:

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

1 15 6,6 29 9,8 368 300 m/h

>= 7% (m)

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

0 0 0

Forillon

5 0 60 0 185 95 Descent time:

2 0h30 3h20 5h05

Près de la riv. Ste-Anne IAT-QC-Topo+

2,5

3

0h25 0h20 2h35 2h10 4h05 3h30 500 m/h

3,5

4

0h20 1h55 2h55

0h20 1h40 2h35

Walking time Section - 12 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Rivière Matane Abri Ruisseau des Pitounes

11,4

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

673

0

357

220

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

6h20

5h10

4h25

3h55

3h30

Walking time Section - 12 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Ruisseau des Pitounes Abri Rivière Matane Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

11,4 357 200 m/h

>= 7% (m)

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

220

Forillon

673 0 Descent time:

2

6h50

2,5

3

5h40 4h55 350 m/h

3,5

4

4h25

3h55

Walking time Section - 13 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Ruisseau des Pitounes JCT raccourci avant 7,9 Petchedetz Abri Tombereau via raccourci

2,5

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

To

Forillon Walking speed (km/h)

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

419

378

322

179

6h25

5h35

5h

4h40

4h25

52

0

231

227

1h55

1h35

1h30

1h25

1h20

308

4h25

3h50

3h25

3h10

2h55

OU Abri Tombereau via Mont Petchedetz

5,5

205

146

383

Walking time Section - 13 #NOM?

Distance (km)

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

>= 7% (m)

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

From Abri Lac Tombereau Via raccourci -> JCT

231

227

52

0

2h25

2h05

1h55

1h50

1h50

146

4h40

4h10

3h50

3h30

3h20

378

5h55

5h05

4h35

4h10

3h55

Via Mont Petchedetz -> JCT

5,5

383

308

OU 205

JCT ->Abri Ruisseau des Pitounes

7,9

322

179

419

Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

2,5

200 m/h

Descent time:

350 m/h

Walking time Section - 14 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Lac Tombereau Abri La Montagne à Valcourt Abri Lac Matane

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

8,9

720

571

430

244

8h

7h05

6h30

6h05

5h50

5,9

153

0

528

494

4h25

3h50

3h25

3h05

2h55

Walking time Section - 14 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Lac Matane Abri La Montagne à Valcourt Abri Lac Tombereau Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Forillon

5,9

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

>= 7%

2,5

3

3,5

4

0

5h25

4h50

4h25

4h10

3h55

720 571 Descent time:

7h20

6h25 5h50 350 m/h

5h25

5h05

(m)

494

8,9 430 200 m/h

244

Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% 2

(m)

528

To Matapédia

153

Walking time Section - 15 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Lac Matane Abri Lac du Gros Ruisseau

8,3

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

764

728

359

188

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

8h20

7h30

6h55

6h30

6h20

Walking time Section - 15 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

Abri Lac du Gros Ruisseau Abri Lac Matane Ascent time:

Forillon

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

764 728 Descent time:

7h10

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

3,5

4

5h25

5h05

From

8,3 359 200 m/h

188

6h20 5h50 350 m/h

Orignal femelle IAT-QC-Topo+

Walking time Section - 16 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Lac du Gros Ruisseau Abri Mont Craggy

9,8

Origin-Destination

Distance

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

699

548

757

531

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

9h10

8h10

7h30

7h05

6h40

Walking time Section - 16 (km)

From Abri Mont Craggy Abri Lac du Gros Ruisseau Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

699 548 Descent time:

9h05

9,8 757 200 m/h

531

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

8h05 7h30 350 m/h

3,5

4

7h

6h40

Tétras du Canada IAT-QC-Topo+

Walking time Section - 17 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

De: Abri Mont Craggy Mont Blanc Abri Lac Beaulieu

3,2 4,7

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

510 148

484 0

26 556

0 532

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

4h 3h55

3h40 3h25

3h30 3h05

3h20 2h55

3h10 2h40

Walking time Section - 17 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

De: Abri Lac Beaulieu Mont Blanc Abri Mont Craggy Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

148 0 510 484 Descent time:

5h 2h55

4,7 556 3,2 26 200 m/h

532 0

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

4h30 4h10 2h40 2h25 350 m/h

3,5

4

4h 2h20

3h50 2h10

Walking time Section - 18 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Lac Beaulieu Mont Nicol-Albert Abri Petit Sault

8,7 6,1

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

705 29

494 0

470 772

371 747

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

7h55 5h10

7h 4h35

6h25 4h10

6h 3h55

5h40 3h40

Walking time Section - 18 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Petit Sault Mont Nicol-Albert Abri Lac Beaulieu Ascent time:

©Catherine Auger

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

29 0 705 494 Descent time:

6h50 7h35

6,1 772 8,7 470 200 m/h

747 371

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

6h10 5h50 6h40 6h10 350 m/h

3,5

4

5h30 5h50

5h20 5h25

Walking time Section - 19 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Petit Sault Abri Ruisseau Bascon

8,1

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

575

511

76

0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

6h35

5h50

5h20

4h55

4h35

Walking time Section - 19 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Ruisseau Bascon Abri Petit Sault Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

575 511 Descent time:

5h30

8,1 76 200 m/h

0

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

4h40 4h10 350 m/h

3,5

4

3h50

3h30

Walking time Section - 20 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Ruisseau Bascon Mont Logan Ref. Nyctale et Chouette

8,4 3,4

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

834 44

810 0

348 158

213 0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

7h20 1h40

6h30 1h25

5h55 1h05

5h30 0h55

5h10 0h55

Walking time Section - 20 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Nyctale et Chouette Mont Logan Abri Ruisseau Bascon Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

44 0 834 810 Descent time:

1h40 7h35

3,4 158 8,4 348 300 m/h

0 213

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

1h25 1h05 6h40 6h10 500 m/h

3,5

4

0h55 5h50

0h55 5h30

Walking time Section - 21 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Nyctale et Chouette Camping Arnica Ref. Carouge Camping Kalmia Ref. Le Huard

3 5,5 6 2,2

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

45 270 193 43

14 257 148 0

238 342 416 45

203 314 353 0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

1h55 4h10 4h10 1h05

1h40 3h40 3h35 0h55

1h30 3h20 3h10 0h40

1h20 3h05 2h55 0h35

1h10 2h55 2h40 0h35

Walking time Section - 21 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Huard Camping Kalmia Ref. Carouge Camping Arnica Ref. Nyctale et Chouette Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

43 0 193 148 270 257 45 14 Descent time:

1h05 4h30 4h20 2h10

2,2 45 6 416 5,5 342 3 238 300 m/h

0 353 314 203

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

0h55 0h40 3h55 3h30 3h50 3h25 1h55 1h40 500 m/h

3,5

4

0h35 3h10 3h05 1h35

0h35 2h55 2h55 1h30

Walking time Section - 22 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Huard Refuge Le Mésange

11,4

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

701

615

390

174

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

8h05

6h55

6h10

5h40

5h10

Walking time Section - 22 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Refuge Le Mésange Ref. Le Huard Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

701 615 Descent time:

7h30

11,4 390 300 m/h

174

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

6h25 5h35 500 m/h

3,5

4

5h05

4h40

Walking time Section - 23 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Refuge Le Mésange Camping Le Saule Pic du Brulé Camping Lac Cascapédia

1,1 5,9 6,8

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

63 255 182

63 196 172

39 344 451

39 184 284

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

0h50 3h55 4h30

0h40 3h25 3h55

0h40 2h55 3h25

0h35 2h40 3h05

0h35 2h30 2h50

Walking time Section - 23 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Lac Cascapédia Pic du Brulé Camping Le Saule Refuge Le Mésange Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

182 172 255 196 63 63 Descent time:

4h40 3h55 0h50

6,8 451 5,9 344 1,1 39 300 m/h

284 184 39

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

4h 3h35 3h25 2h55 0h40 0h35 500 m/h

3,5

4

3h10 2h40 0h35

2h55 2h30 0h30

Plateau Mont-Albert IAT-QC-Topo+

Walking time Section - 24 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Lac Cascapédia Ref. La Paruline

8,4

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

508

458

329

303

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

6h20

5h30

4h55

4h30

4h10

Walking time Section - 24 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. La Paruline Camping Lac Cascapédia Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

508 458 Descent time:

6h05

8,4 329 300 m/h

303

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

5h20 4h40 500 m/h

Cuve Mont-Albert IAT-QC-Topo+

3,5

4

4h20

4h

Walking time Section - 25 Origin-Destination

Distance Vertical drop + Total >= 7% (km)

To

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

Forillon Walking speed (km/h)

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

From Ref. La Paruline Camping La Fougère JCT Grande Cuve sud

3,5 10

94 440

0 126

31 378

0 339

1h50 6h05

1h25 5h05

1h10 4h25

1h 3h55

0h55 3h35

Camping La Rivière (par la cuve et lac du Diable)

8,9

41

0

585

0

4h30

3h35

2h55

2h30

2h10

844

6h30

5h40

5h10

4h55

4h35

OU Camping La Rivière (par le Mont Albert-Versant Nord)

7,6

305

299

850

Walking time Section - 25 Origin-Destination

Distance Vertical drop + Total >= 7% (km)

From Camping La Rivière JCT Grande Cuve sud (Par Mt Albert – Versant nord)

7,6

2,5

3

3,5

4

299

7h10

6h30

5h55

5h35

5h20

0

4h30

3h35

2h55

2h30

2h10

440 126 94 0 Descent time:

6h25 1h50

5h25 4h40 1h25 1h10 500 m/h

4h10 1h

3h55 0h55

(m)

844

Walking speed (km/h) 2

(m)

850

To Matapédia

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

305

OU

IAT-QC-Topo+

JCT Grande Cuve sud (Par le lac du Diable et la cuve)

8,9

585

0

Camping La Fougère Refuge La Paruline Ascent time:

10 378 3,5 31 300 m/h

339 0

41

Walking time Section - 26 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping La Rivière Ref. Le Roselin Ref. Le Tétras

8,4 6,6

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

529 459

0 453

74 95

0 0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

4h10 4h50

3h25 4h05

2h50 3h40

2h25 3h25

2h05 3h10

Walking time Section - 26 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Tétras Ref. Le Roselin Camping La Rivière Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

459 453 529 0 Descent time:

4h10 4h10

6,6 95 8,4 74 300 m/h

0 0

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3h30 3h05 3h25 2h50 500 m/h

Lac Quiscale, Mont-Albert IAT-QC-Topo+

3

3,5

4

2h50 2h25

2h35 2h05

Walking time Section - 27 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Tétras Mont Jacques-Cartier Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier

4,9 8,2

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

327 19

290 0

84 735

0 721

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

3h25 5h30

2h55 4h40

2h35 4h10

2h25 3h50

2h10 3h30

Walking time Section - 27 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Mont JacquesCartier Mont Jacques-Cartier Ref. Le Tétras Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

19 0 327 290 Descent time:

6h30 3h

8,2 735 4,9 84 300 m/h

721 0

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

5h40 5h05 2h30 2h10 500 m/h

Lac aux Américains IAT-QC-Topo+

3

3,5

4

4h40 1h55

4h30 1h50

Walking time Section - 28 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Mont JacquesCartier Refuge Cabourons

14,5

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

398

0

424

0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

7h20

5h50

4h50

4h05

3h35

Walking time Section - 28 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Refuge Cabourons Camping Mont JacquesCartier Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

14,5

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

424

300 m/h

0

398

0

Descent time:

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

7h20

5h50

4h50

4h05

3h35

500 m/h

Walking time Section - 29 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Refuge Cabourons Camping Mont St-Pierre

19,7

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

242

0

768

372

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

10h35

8h35

7h20

6h25

5h40

Walking time Section - 29 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Mont StPierre Refuge Cabourons Ascent time:

Vertical drop +

Vertical drop -

Total

Total

19,7 768 300 m/h

>= 7% (m)

372

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h)

>= 7% (m)

242 0 Descent time:

Forillon

2

11h05

2,5

9h05 7h50 500 m/h

Vallée Mont St-Pierre IAT-QC-Topo+

3

3,5

4

6h55

6h10

Walking time Section - 30 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Mont St-Pierre Mont-Louis Camping l'Anse-Pleureuse Abri Ruisseau-Flétan

13,2 6,8 10,3

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

548 143 444

456 0 304

558 143 382

456 0 233

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

9h 3h25 6h35

7h40 2h40 5h35

6h50 2h20 4h55

6h10 1h55 4h25

5h40 1h40 4h05

Walking time Section - 30 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Ruisseau-Flétan Camping l'Anse-Pleureuse Mont-Louis Camping Mont St-Pierre Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

444 304 143 0 548 456 Descent time:

6h30 3h25 9h

10,3 382 6,8 143 13,2 558 300 m/h

233 0 456

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

5h30 4h50 2h40 2h20 7h40 6h50 500 m/h

3,5

4

4h20 1h55 6h10

3h55 1h40 5h40

Walking time Section - 31 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri Ruisseau-Flétan Gros-Morne Manche d'Épée Camping Lac à Cyrille Madeleine-Centre

3 9,3 6,4 8,1

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

88 308 451 118

81 0 0 112

146 320 60 487

119 280 0 119

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

2h 5h10 3h10 4h40

1h40 4h20 2h35 3h55

1h30 3h40 2h05 3h20

1h25 3h10 1h50 2h55

1h20 2h55 1h35 2h35

Walking time Section - 31 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Madeleine-Centre Camping Lac à Cyrille Manche d'Épée Gros-Morne Abri Ruisseau-Flétan Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

118 112 451 0 308 0 88 81 Descent time:

4h40 3h10 5h35 2h05

8,1 487 6,4 60 9,3 320 3 146 300 m/h

119 0 280 119

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

3h55 3h20 2h35 2h05 4h40 4h 1h50 1h35 500 m/h

3,5

4

2h55 1h50 3h35 1h25

2h35 1h35 3h20 1h20

Walking time Section - 32 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Madeleine-Centre Rivière-la-Madeleine Camping Grand-Sault Grande-Vallée (Camping Soleil Couchant)

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

3,9 7,2

46 360

0 65

62 82

0 12

1h55 3h50

1h35 3h05

1h20 2h35

1h05 2h20

0h55 2h

20,1

380

0

663

305

10h40

8h40

7h20

6h25

5h35

Walking time Section - 32 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Grande-Vallée (Camping Soleil Couchant) Camping Grand-Sault Rivière-la-Madeleine Madeleine-Centre Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Forillon

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

20,1 663 7,2 82 3,9 62 300 m/h

305 12 0

380 0 360 65 46 0 Descent time:

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2

11h05 3h50 1h55

2,5

3

9h05 7h40 3h 2h35 1h35 1h20 500 m/h

3,5

4

6h50 2h10 1h05

6h 1h55 0h55

Walking time Section - 33 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Grande-Vallée (Camping Soleil Couchant) Petite-Vallée Abri Les Terrasses Ref. Les Cascades

5,6 10,1 11

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

74 479 318

52 298 96

73 242 439

19 105 314

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

3h 6h20 6h25

2h30 5h10 5h20

2h05 4h35 4h35

1h50 4h05 4h05

1h35 3h40 3h40

Walking time Section - 33 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Les Cascades Abri Les Terrasses Petite-Vallée Grande-Vallée (Camping Soleil Couchant) Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

11 10,1

439 242

314 105

318 479

96 298

6h40 5h55

5h35 4h55

4h55 4h20

4h25 3h50

3h55 3h30

5,6

73

19

74

52

2h55

2h25

2h

1h50

1h35

300 m/h

Descent time:

500 m/h

Walking time Section - 34 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Les Cascades Saint-Yvon Abri La Chute

11 12,7

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

306 505

129 0

465 315

206 100

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

6h20 6h35

5h10 5h20

4h30 4h25

3h55 3h50

3h35 3h25

Walking time Section - 34 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri La Chute Saint-Yvon Ref. Les Cascades Ascent time:

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

12,7 465 11 315 300 m/h

206 100

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2

306 129 6h40 505 0 6h25 Temps de descente:

2,5

5h25 4h35 5h20 4h35 500 m/h

Mont Logan IAT-QC-Topo+

3

3,5

4

3h55 4h05

3h30 3h40

Walking time Section - 35 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Abri La Chute Ref. Le Zéphir

8,9

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

320

184

506

256

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

5h35

4h40

4h05

3h40

3h25

Walking time Section - 35 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Zéphir Abri La Chute Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

320 184 Descent time:

5h40

8,9 506 300 m/h

256

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

4h50 4h10 500 m/h

3,5

4

3h50

3h25

Walking time Section - 36 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. Le Zéphir L'Anse-à-Valleau Abri Les Carrières Ref. L'Érablière

5,2 7,2 9,7

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

165 328 285

84 236 129

100 232 280

0 168 106

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

2h55 4h40 5h30

2h25 4h 4h30

2h 3h30 3h55

1h50 3h10 3h25

1h35 2h55 3h05

Walking time Section - 36 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. L'Érablière Abri Les Carrières L'Anse-à-Valleau Ref. Le Zéphir Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

285 129 328 236 165 84 Descent time:

5h30 4h35 2h50

9,7 280 7,2 232 5,2 100 300 m/h

106 168 0

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

4h30 3h50 3h55 3h25 2h10 1h55 500 m/h

Riv. Ste-Anne IAT-QC-Topo+

3

3,5

4

3h25 3h05 1h40

3h 2h50 1h30

Walking time Section - 37 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Ref. L'Érablière Camping Appalaches Camping Les Lacs

9,5 14,1

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

174 587

0 0

360 188

132 0

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

5h 7h

4h05 5h35

3h25 4h40

2h55 4h

2h35 3h30

Walking time Section - 37 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Les Lacs Camping Appalaches Ref. L'Érablière Ascent time:

©Catherine Auger

IAT-QC-Topo+

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

14,1 188 9,5 360 300 m/h

0 132

587 0 174 0 Descent time:

Forillon

To Matapédia Walking speed (km/h) 2 7h 5h10

2,5

3

5h35 4h40 4h10 3h35 500 m/h

3,5

4

4h 3h10

3h30 2h50

Walking time Section - 38 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Les Lacs Camping Les Crêtes #1

9,3

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

263

226

422

99

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

5h35

4h40

4h05

3h35

3h20

Walking time Section - 38 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Les Crêtes #1 Camping Les Lacs Ascent time:

IAT-QC-Topo+

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

263 226 Descent time:

5h25

9,3 422 300 m/h

99

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

4h30 3h55 500 m/h

3,5

4

3h25

3h05

Walking time Section - 39 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Camping Les Crêtes #1 Camping Les Crêtes #2 Camping Cap-Bon-Ami Cap-Gaspé

4 10,8 10

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

118 425 293

0 269 110

99 613 322

0 511 149

To

Walking speed (km/h) 2

2,5

3

3,5

4

2h 7h20 5h40

1h35 6h10 4h40

1h20 5h30 3h55

1h05 5h 3h30

1h 4h35 3h10

Walking time Section - 39 Origin-Destination

Distance (km)

From Cap-Gaspé Camping Cap-Bon-Ami Camping Les Crêtes #2 Camping Les Crêtes #1 Ascent time:

To Matapédia

Vertical drop + Total >= 7%

Vertical drop Total >= 7%

(m)

(m)

2

293 110 425 269 118 0 Descent time:

5h40 7h35 2h

10 322 10,8 613 4 99 300 m/h

149 511 0

Forillon

Walking speed (km/h) 2,5

3

4h40 4h 6h35 5h50 1h35 1h20 500 m/h

Étant au bout du monde, n’oublie pas de revenir sur tes pas.

IAT-QC-Topo+

3,5

4

3h35 5h20 1h05

3h10 4h55 1h

Refuge Quartz – Riv. Assemetquagan

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Petchedetz

IAT-QC-Topo+

Pic du ruisseau Desjarlais

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Blanc

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Nicol-Albert

IAT-QC-Topo+

Région des Monts Fortin, Matawees et Logan 1/3

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Logan 2/3

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Logan 3/3

IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Albert

SIA

Sommet Albert Sud (1154)

Epaule des Caribous

Grand Mur

Table à Moïse

Grande Cuve Sud

Lac Quiscale Sommet Albert Nord (1088)

Mur des Patrouilleurs

Montée versant nord

SIA

L.B. IAT-QC-Topo+

Mont Albert Sud

IAT-QC-Topo+

GEOGRAPHICAL LANDMARKS B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

KL

M

N

O

P

QR

S

This index will take you directly to the map or toponym description of the desired landmark.. → Map

A

Accueil John, Camping Alain-Potvin, Lac Ala'sui'nui, Mont

Matane

Albert , Mont

Gaspésie

Américains, Lac aux Américains, Ruisseau aux Amqui, Abri

→ Map

Gaspésie Gaspésie Matapédia

Anse-aux-Canons

Haute-Gaspésie Côte Gaspé Côte Gaspé Côte Gaspé

Anse du Cap à l’Ours

Haute-Gaspésie

Anse Saint-Georges Anses Saint-Jean, Pont des Appalaches, Camping des Arnica, Camping

Forillon Matapédia Forillon

Arthur-Allen, Mont

Gaspésie Gaspésie

Assemetquagan, Rivière

Avignon

Aube, Pic

Gaspésie → Map

Barbarin, Mont du lac

Sector Gaspésie

Bascon, Abri

Matane

B

→Toponym

Matapédia

Amqui, Ville Anse à Colin Anse à Déry Anse à Mercier

IAT-QC-Topo+

Sector Matane Gaspésie

→Toponym

→ Map

T

VWXZ

Bascon, Ruisseau

Matane

Bayfield, Mont

Matane

Beaulieu, Abri

Matane Matane

Beaulieu, Lac Beaulieu, Ruisseau Beauséjour, Pont Blanc, Mont

Matane Matapédia Matane

Bleu, Pic

Matane

Blizzard, Mont

Gaspésie Gaspésie

Bouleaux, Lac aux

Gaspésie

Brûlé, Pic du → Map

C

Caburons, Refuge Camarine, Camping Camp à Guelou, Ruisseau du Cap-aux-Os Cap Barré Cap Bon-Ami, Cap Cap Bon-Ami, Camping Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Phare Cap-Chat, Ville Cap-Chat Est, Ruisseau

Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie Forillon Haute-Gaspésie Forillon Forillon Haute-Gaspésie Matane

Cap-des-Rosiers, Village

Matane Forillon

Cap-Gaspé, Cap

Forillon

Carouge, Refuge Carrières, Abri des

Gaspésie

Cascades, Refuge Cascapédia, Camping Cascapédia, Rivière IAT-QC-Topo+

Sector Haute-Gaspésie

Côte Gaspé Côte Gaspé Gaspésie Gaspésie

→Toponym

→ Map

Matapédia

Causapscal, Abri Causapscal, Rivière Causapscal, Ville

Matapédia Matapédia

Charles-E. Vézina, Mont

Matane

Chic-Chocs, Monts

Gaspésie

Chouette, Refuge Chute, Abri La

Gaspésie

Chutes, Abri

Côte Gaspé Matapédia

Clark, Canyon

Avignon

Clark, Ruisseau

Avignon

Clercs, Mont des

Matane

Cloridorme, Village

Côte Gaspé

Coleman, Mont

Matane

Collins, Mont

Gaspésie

Comte, Mont

Gaspésie

Corbeau, Refuge

Avignon Gaspésie

Côté, Lac Craggy, Abri

Matane

Craggy, Mont Crêtes 1, Camping Crêtes 2, Camping

Matane

Creux, Refuge Ruisseau Creux, Ruisseau Cyrille, Lac à, Abri → Map

D Desjarlais, Pic Desjarlais, Ruisseau Des-Rosiers, Camping Diable, Chute IAT-QC-Topo+

Forillon Forillon Avignon Avignon Haute-Gaspésie Sector Matane Matane Forillon Gaspésie

→Toponym

→ Map

Gaspésie

Diable, Lac Diable, Ruisseau

Gaspésie

Disparus, Mont des Division, Rivière de la

Matane Forillon Gaspésie

Dodge, Mont

E

Dos de la Baleine, Mont Duvivier, Rivière → Map Éole, Abri

Matane Sector Gaspésie

Erablière, Refuge de l'

Matapédia Côte Gaspé

Ernest-Ménard, Mont

Gaspésie → Map

F

Fernald, Réserve écologique

→ Map

Sector Gaspésie

→Toponym

→ Map

→Toponym

→ Map

Matane

Fernand Fafard, Mont Ferré, Ruisseau

Haute-Gaspésie Forillon

Forillon, Parc national Fortin, Mont

Gaspésie

Fortin, Mont – Habitat floristique

Gaspésie

Fort Péninsule Fougère, Camping

Forillon Gaspésie Matane

Fougères, Mont des → Map

G

→Toponym

Gaspésie

Ells, Mont Erablière, Abri

Galène, Ruisseau à Galipeault, Pont Gaspé , Ville Gaspésie, Parc national Gisant Golfe, Ruisseau du IAT-QC-Topo+

Gaspésie

Sector Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie Forillon Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie

Haute-Gaspésie Côte Gaspé

Grand Sault, Abri Grande Anse Grande-Grave, Locality

Côte Gaspé

Grand-Étang

Haute-Gaspésie

Grande-Vallée, Village Gros Ruisseau, Abri Lac du Gros-Morne, Parc éolien Gros-Morne, Village → Map

Matane Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie

Hélène, Chute

Sector Matane

Huard, Refuge

Gaspésie

H

→ Map Jacques-Cartier, Mont

Sector Gaspésie

Jacques-Ferron, Mont

Gaspésie

Jalbert, Chutes

Côte Gaspé

J

Jean-Yves Bérubé, Mont

Matane

Jimmy-Russell, Mont

Matane

John-A.-Allen, Mont

Gaspésie

Joseph-Fortin, Mont

Gaspésie → Map

Lac à Canard, Mont du

Sector Gaspésie Matapédia Forillon

Lac au Saumon, Abri

Matapédia

Lac Matane, Abri

Matane

Lac Tombereau, Abri Lagacé, Abri La Longue Pointe

Matane

KL Kalmia, Camping Le Kempt, Parc éolien

L’Anse-au-Griffon, Village

IAT-QC-Topo+

Forillon

Avignon Côte Gaspé Forillon

→Toponym

→ Map

→Toponym

→ Map

→Toponym

→ Map

L'Anse Pleureuse, Village L'Anse-à-Valleau, Parc éolien L'Anse-à -Valleau, Village La Rivière, Camping Les Lacs, Camping Le Saule, Camping Logan, Mont Logan, Mont. Camping Logan, Mont – Habitat floristique Loubert, Lac

M

Côte Gaspé Côte Gaspé Gaspésie Forillon Gaspésie Gaspésie Gaspésie Gaspésie Gaspésie

Louis-Marie Lalonde, Mont

Gaspésie

Loupes, Mont des

Gaspésie

→ Map Madeleine-Centre, Village Madeleine, Rivière Manche d'Épée, Village

Sector Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie

Manche d’Épée, Réserve écologique

Haute-Gaspésie

Matane, Lac Matane, Rivière Matapédia, Abri

Matane Matane

Matapédia, Ville

Avignon Avignon

Matapédia, Rivière

Avignon

Matawees, Mont

Gaspésie

Mattawees, Mont – Habitat floristique

Gaspésie

McGerrigle, Chaîne Monts

Gaspésie

Mem, Ruisseau Mer et Montagne, Camping

Matane

Mésange, Refuge Michaud, Ruisseau à

IAT-QC-Topo+

Haute-Gaspésie

Haute-Gaspésie Gaspésie Gaspésie

→Toponym

→ Map

Milieu, Mont du

Gaspésie

Mont-Albert Mont-Albert, Camping

Gaspésie Gaspésie Gaspésie

Mont-Albert, Refuges Mont Jacques-Cartier, Abri Mont-Louis, Parc éolien Mont-Louis, Village Mont St-Pierre, Camping

N

Mont St-Pierre, Réserve écologique

Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie

Mont St-Pierre, Village

Haute-Gaspésie

Montagne à Valcourt, Abri

Matane

Montagne à Valcourt, Mont

Matane

Montagne-de-Roche, Habitat floristique Montagne sèche, Parc éolien Musard, Ruisseau → Map Narcisse, Ruisseau

Forillon

Nicol-Albert, Mont

Côte Gaspé Gaspésie Sector Haute-Gaspésie Matane

Nid d’Aigle, Mont du

Matane

Nyctale, Refuge

Gaspésie → Map

O Olivine, Mont

Sector Gaspésie

Paruline, Refuge

Matane Sector Haute-Gaspésie Gaspésie

Passe, Mont de la

Gaspésie

Pembroke, Mont

Gaspésie

Penouille, Hameau

Forillon

→ Map

P Parc et Mer, Camping

→Toponym

→ Map

→Toponym

→ Map

→Toponym

→ Map

Matane

Or, Lac d’ Ouest, Ruisseau de l’

IAT-QC-Topo+

Gaspésie

Penouille, Lacs de Perches, Mont aux

Matane

Petchedetz, Mont Petit-Cloridorme, Rivière

Matane

Petit Sault, Abri Petite Fourche, Rivière de la Petites Chutes, Ruisseau des Petite-Vallée, Village Petit-Gaspé, Camping Philomène, Chute à Pic, Lac du

Côte Gaspé Haute-Gaspésie Côte Gaspé Forillon Matapédia Gaspésie Avignon

Pics, Mont des

Gaspésie

Pitounes, Abri

Matane

Pluvier, Refuge Le

Gaspésie

Pointe-à-la-Frégate

Côte Gaspé

Pointe-à-la-Renommée

Côte Gaspé

Pointu, Mont Portage, Ruisseau du Premier-lac-des-Iles, Habitat floristique → Map Quartz, Refuge Quiscale, Lac

IAT-QC-Topo+

Côte Gaspé Matane

Pico, Chutes

Pointe-du-Wrack

QR

Forillon

Haute-Gaspésie Matane Gaspésie Gaspésie Sector Avignon Gaspésie

Restigouche, Rivière

Avignon

Ristigouche, Réserve écologique

Avignon

Rivière-au-Renard, Village

Forillon

Rivière Matane, Abri

Matapédia

→Toponym

→ Map

Roger, Chute à

Matapédia

Rolland-Germain, Mont

Gaspésie

Ruisseau Creux, Refuge du

Avignon

Ruisseau Desjarlais, Pic du

Matapédia

Ruisseau Flétan, Abri

S

Ruisseau des Pitounes, Abri → Map

Matane

Saint-Alban, Mont

Sector Forillon

Saint-Alexandre, Abri

Matapédia

Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs, Village

Matapédia

Saint-André-de-Restigouche, Village

Avignon

Sainte-Anne, Chute Sainte-Anne, Rivière

Gaspésie

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Ville Sainte-Anne Nord-Est, Rivière

Gaspésie Gaspésie

Saint-Laurent, Estuaire

Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie

Saint-Laurent, Fleuve

Haute-Gaspésie

Sainte-Marguerite, Abri

Matapédia

Sainte-Marguerite-Marie, Village

Matapédia

Saint-Maurice-de-l'Échouerie, Village

Côte Gaspé

Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Village

Haute-Gaspésie

Saint-Octave-de-l’Avenir, Village Saint-Pierre, Mont Saint-Pierre, Rivière Mont

Gaspésie Haute-Gaspésie

Saint-Vianney, Abri

Haute-Gaspésie Matapédia

Saint-Vianney, Village

Matapédia

Saint-Yvon, Village Saule, Camping Le

Côte Gaspé

Saumon, Abri Lac au IAT-QC-Topo+

Haute-Gaspésie

Gaspésie Matapédia

→Toponym

→ Map

Seigneurie de l’Anse-de-l’Étang

Gaspésie Côte Gaspé

Serpentine-du Mont-Albert, Habitat floristique

Gaspésie

Séverin-Pelletier, Mont Soleil Couchant, Camping Au → Map

Matane

Saumons, Ruisseau des

T

Table, Mont de la

VWXZ

IAT-QC-Topo+

Haute-Gaspésie Sector Gaspésie

Table à Moise, Plateau

Gaspésie

Tamagodi, Camps Terrasses, Abri

Matapédia

Tétras, Refuge Le

Côte Gaspé Gaspésie

Tombereau, Abri

Matane

Trois Soeurs, Abri des

Matapédia

Turcotte, Refuge

Avignon

→ Map Vents du Kempt, Parc éolien Voligny, Ruisseau William-Price, Mont

Sector Matapédia Gaspésie Matane

Xalibu, Mont

Gaspésie

Zéphyr, Refuge

Côte Gaspé

→Toponym

→ Map

→Toponym

→ Map

CANADA POST Matapédia-Matane

Gaspésie

Haute-Gaspésie

Côte-Gaspé

Post Office - Avignon Location and external link : Address :

Matapédia

Saint-André-de-Restigouche

3 rue McDonnel

143 rue Principale

Postal code : Phone : Hours :

G0J 1V0 (418) 865-2188 Closed

G0J 2G0 (418) 865-2063

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wen. 09-12:30, 13:30-17:30 Thu. Fri. Sat. Closed

Ruisseau vers le lac aux Américains

IAT-QC-Topo+

Office closed as of March 2023.

Reopening possible.

Poste Canada

Post Office – Matapédia-Matane Location and external link : Address :

Ste-Marguerite-Marie

Causapscal

Amqui

Saint-Vianney

Cap-Chat

238 chemin Kempt

480 Rue St-Jacques Nord

10 avenue du Parc

125 ave. Centrale

42 rue Notre-Dame E

Postal code : Phone : Hours :

G0J 2Y0 1-800 267-1177 Closed

G0J 1J0 (418) 756-3869 Closed

G5J 1A0 (418) 629-3080 Closed

G0J 3J0 (418) 629-3705 Closed

G0J 1E0 (418) 786-5920 Closed

08:30-17:30

08:30-17:15

IAT-QC-Topo+

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wen. 09:30-13:30 Thu. Fri. Sat. Closed

09:30-12:00, 14:00-16:15

Closed

Closed

08:30-17:15 09:30-12:00, 14:00-17:15 09:30-12:00, 14:00-17:30 Closed

09:30-11:30

Poste Canada

Post Office – Gaspésie Location and external link : Address : Postal code : Phone : Hours :

IAT-QC-Topo+

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts 56, 7e ave Ouest

G4V 1A0 Sun. Mon. Tue. Wen. Thu. Fri. Sat.

1-800-267-1177 Closed

08 :30-17 :30

Closed

Post Office – Haute-Gaspésie Location and external link : Address :

Mont Saint-Pierre

Mont-Louis

Gros-Morne

Madeleine-Centre

Grande-Vallée

104 rue Prudent-Cloutier

9 1ere ave. O

8A rue Principale

117 route Principale

7 rue Saint-FrancoisXavier

Postal code : Phone : Hours :

G0J 1V0 (418) 797-5160 Closed

G0E 1T0 (418) 797-2370 Closed

G0J 1L0 (418) 797-2434 Closed

G0J 1P0

G0J 1K0 (418) 393-2090 Closed

IAT-QC-Topo+

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wen. 09:30-12:00, 14:00-17:00 Thu. Fri. Sat. Closed

Closed

08:30-12:00, 13:00-17:00 08:30-12:00, 13:00-18:00 08:30-12:00, 13:00-17:00 Closed

08:30-17:00 09:00-12:00, 13:0017:30

09:00-17:00

09:00-11:45

Closed

08:30-18:00 08:30-17:00 Closed

Poste Canada

Post Office – Côte-Gaspé

IAT-QC-Topo+

Location and external link : Address :

Cloridorme

L’Anse-à-Valleau

St-Maurice-del’Échouerie

Rivière-au-Renard

532 route 132

922 route 132

51 rue de l’Église

40 boul Renard E

Postal code :

G0J 1G0

G4X 1L0

G4X 1P0

G4X 1S0

Phone : Hours :

Closed

(418) 269-5497 Closed

(418) 269-3612 Closed

(418) 269-3768 Closed

10:00-12:00, 14:00-17:30

08:30-12:00 - 13:30-17:30

08:30-17:30

Closed

09:00 - 11:45

Closed

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wen. 09-11:30, 12:30-17:15 Thu. Fri. Sat. Closed

DRUGSTORES Opening hours Location and external link : Banner : Address : Phone : Hours :

IAT-QC-Topo+

Causapscal

Familiprix 4-B, Boul Perron Est

Familiprix 28, rue St-Jean-Baptiste

Familiprix 20, rue du Pont

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(418) 865-2003

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Sainte-Anne-desMonts

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Saint-Maxime-duMont-Louis

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Jean Coutu 61, rue Notre-Dame Ouest

Jean Coutu 20 Boul. Ste Anne O

Familiprix 33 Boul. Ste Anne O

Uniprix 19A, 1ere Ave Ouest

Familiprix 30, rue St-FrançoisXavier ouest

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BOOKS Cover page

Back cover Having hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2001, Nancy Shepherd was no stranger to long-distance backpacking. Yet, when she set out to hike the International Appalachian Trail in 2003, she had a backpack full of concerns, from questions about the terrain itself, crossing the border, and the language barrier in a different country to worries over hiking with someone she'd met briefly only once before.

In 2003, the International Appalachian Trail was relatively new, and extended about 700 miles from Maine to Cap Gaspe in Quebec. Much of the length was still on roads, and lacked printed maps. Shepherd and her partner set out on faith, trusting that they could handle whatever issues they encountered -- the first of which occurred on the very first day.

While the hike was not everything she'd hoped for, the beauty of the wilderness and the joy of being on the trail outweighed the struggles and frustrations. Along the way Shepherd learned the importance of self-reliance and of choosing a compatible partner. She learned that sometimes adjustments are necessary, and realized that without those compromises, she may have missed the opportunity for the most important lesson of all.

"This is a story of going beyond the comfort zone, of realizing limits, and of lessons learned, as well as a story that will reaffirm your faith in humanity."

If you enjoy adventure stories that go beyond sunshine and butterflies to tell it like it really is, Where The Mountains Meet The Sea is for you.

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In June 2000, Monique Dykstra set out to hike the brand new International Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Cap Gaspe, Quebec. A city girl, she thought that hiking was "simply a matter of throwing a few granola bars into a pack and heading for the hills." Two months, 1,073 km and countless blisters later, she was not so sure.

This hilarious and moving narrative includes 50 colour photos and vivid descriptions of the characters Dykstra meets along the trail. It also contains a 24-page guide to the IAT. Acclaimed Montreal-based writer and photographer Monique Dykstra knows what some travel writers are unable to grasp: travel writing isn't just about the details of getting from one place to another; it's about encounters with people and lessons learned on the road, the stuff that makes for entertaining anecdotes when you return home.

Dykstra has filled her book with many such anecdotes from her two-month, 1,000-kilometre, millionstep trek along the legendary International Appalachian Trail through Maine, New Brunswick, and Quebec. One such anecdote concerns an encounter with two bears: "Trudging past a row of mistshrouded trees, I heard a twig snap. Then I heard CRASH! THUD! CRASH! I couldn't see it, but I knew it was a bear." Stuck in the middle of nowhere without pepper spray, Dykstra writes, "Stumbling across one bear is bad. Seeing two bears is worse. Finding yourself trapped between a mama bear and a baby bear is about as bad as it gets." Other tales feature beaver dams, moose tracks, walking along the banks of the Saint John River (dubbed the Rhine of America), as well as fun meetings with other longdistance hikers and some cranky customs officers, mixed in with local lore, history, and lots of stunning colour photographs.

Most importantly for those interested in backpacking in her footsteps, Dykstra ends her book with a 42-page essential guide of everything you need to know, from maps and a trip-planner timetable to equipment checklists, official IAT contacts, B & Bs, and clinics. A good thing, because Dykstra's sense of wonder and personal accomplishment is infectious. --Richard Burnett

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CREDITS Thanks to these people who have authorized the use of their equipment for this project.

Name Claire Deguelle Marcel Descarreaux Marc-Antoine DeRoy

Organism

Subject

Site Hikster Société d’histoire de la HauteGaspésie

Denis Bouvier Catherine Auger Jean-François Caron Eddy Pellerin Karine Brouillette

Mont Olivine

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GPX plots and initial topo profiles Article Enigma of Mont Jacques-Cartier radar Article Brother Marie-Victorin's explorations of the Haute-Gaspésie region Photographies Réserve faunique de Matane Photographies Photo Massif Chic-Chocs en hiver.

Photo Mont Jimmy-Russell Tattoo

EMERGENCY

IAT-QC

Office

Police

911 (418) 560-4642 (418) 310-4141 4141 (506) 548-0420

Poison control center Réserve faunique Matane

Accueil John

(418) 224-3345

Parc Gaspésie

Interpretation center

(418) 763-7811

Gîte Mt-Albert (24/7)

(418) 763-2288 1-866-727-2427

Non-emergency evacuation (Destination Chic-Chocs)

(418) 763-7633 (888) 783-2663

Parc Forillon

Emergency

1-888-762-1422

Airmedic (member only)

Emergency number Satellite number Emergency email Emergency

1-877-999-3322 (418) 673-3322 urgences@airmedic.net (343) 212-2222

Hélico Secours (member only)

Telus cellular coverage map

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RESCUE HELICOPTER EVACUATION PROCEDURES These notes follow the training 'Prevention and safety in the outdoors', given by a member of the Helicopter Search and Rescue Squad of the Sûreté du Québec and an AirMedic conference.

The SQ is the only police force in Canada with its own helicopter search and rescue team since 2018.

Here are some important points mentioned during the training:

Activation of a distress beacon.

It's ESSENTIAL to have a plan A for dealing with possible long delays. Remember that they are not the emergency plan for expeditions, but the last resort for saving lives.

When planning an outing, it's important to have an itinerary prepared and to hand it over to a "guardian angel".

1.1 Reason: A PERSON'S LIFE IS IN DANGER. Examples: -trauma: haemorrhage, injury to the femur, ...

-hypothermia (even in summer) - medical illness

1.2 Possible means of communication: - Distress beacon. Bidirectional preferred: Inreach or Spot X are the best known beacons.

- Cell phone - Satellite phone 1.3 Communication chain following the activation of the SOS button of a beacon.

The signal is received at Garmin's call center or Spot in Texas. It is then forwarded to the local police forces.

Land rescue is possible depending on your location.

If an intervention requires a helicopter, the call is transferred to the helicopter squad, based at St-Hubert airport.

1.4 BEFORE activating the distress beacon, notify your guardian angel by preset message of your situation.

If you cancel the distress call, don't forget to notify your guardian angel.

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1.5 The response time of the helicopter?

A good approximation is to calculate the driving time divided by two plus one hour of team preparation. So, Ste-Anne-des-Monts being about 8 hours by car from St-Hubert, you can expect to have a helicopter within 5 hours, weather permitting, and if a rescue team is available.

The Squad collaborates with the Canadian Army (CAFS) on some rescues. They are based in Halifax, with CH-149 Cormorant helicopters in Greenwood (N.S.), Bagotville (QC), Gander and GooseBay (N.L.).

1.6 Airmedic and Rescue Helicopter.

Please note that if you have evacuation insurance with Airmedic or Hélico Secours, which is strongly recommended, they are NOT called when you press the SOS button. In the case of a non-urgent evacuation, they must be reached by email (by preset message) via the satellite beacon or cell phone if you have a network. If you call them, make sure you're a member or else a hefty $$$$ bill will be waiting for you.

The SQ does not bill third parties or people rescued in emergencies.

Sûreté du Québec Airmedic Hélico Secours

Operational bases St-Hubert St-Hubert, Québec, St-Honoré St-Hubert, St-Honoré

Night flight Yes Yes Soon

Winch Yes No Soon

RECCO Yes No Yes

What to do before helicopter rescue arrives.

2.1 Stay in the same place unless it is dangerous. In the event of a change, notify the call center.

2.2 Prepare for a long wait.

2.3 In case of injury, prepare the victim and protect him against hypothermia. The helicopter itself can be an aggravating factor for hypothermia.

For an overview of the wind generated by helicopter blades.

2.4 Prepare backpacks with personal and essential effects (medication, car keys, etc.)

2.5 Have prepared campfire (3) if the place allows it. Also plan to put it out when help arrives.

Your GPS coordinates will be transmitted if you used a beacon. Colored clothing, headlamp or cell phone light in strobe mode, mirror, signal flares, RECCO reflector, etc. to also signal your presence. Whistle or bear bangers for ground search party.

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Sauvetage 2.6 Gather all other equipment in one place with GPS coordinates. If they can't be carried on board, it will help you to retrieve them later.

2.7 Find a clear and visible place for the helicopter (if possible). Dimensions required: By day 30 x 30 meters, by night 100 x 50 meters. What does this correspond to visually? A semi-trailer truck can have a 53ft (16m) trailer; therefore by day 2 trailer lengths; at night it would be 3 trailer lengths by 6.

2.8 Gather in one place and away from trees. Attach any object that can fly away: clothes, caps, bags, survival blanket etc....

Helicopter blade blast could break branches and cause injury.

You have to be ready 1 hour before help arrives.

3.1 Respond with YES/NO hand signals as needed for rescue. This could be useful in locating the right person to evacuate if multiple groups are in the same area.

3.2 Establish the evacuation order; the victim first.

3.3 Never approach a helicopter before the engines have stopped OR otherwise the approach is made facing the helicopter between 10am and 2am under the pilot's order. Eye contact with the pilot is ESSENTIAL. 3.4 Always lean when approaching the helicopter because of the rotor and the terrain.

3.5 Do not point light sources at the helicopter because of the night vision goggles.

Other links When to initiate a backcounty rescue (with your Garmin InReach, PLB, or SPOT) Interview with the Los Angeles County SAR Director. The author elaborates some scenarios and suggests when to trigger the SOS. How long do InReach messages take to send? It explains the communication between a beacon and the network of satellites and why the response time can vary.

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REGIM REGIM, the « Régie intermunicipale de transport Gaspésie - Iles de la Madeleine », offers local transportation between villages not served by Orléans Express.

Certain routes must be booked in advance. Monday to Friday only. Not available on certain holidays. Cost: For the modest sum of $5..

Website : regim.info

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Mont Craggy Lac Gros Ruisseau Lac Matane Lac Tombereau Ruisseau Pitounes Riv. Matane St-Vianney

Amqui Abri Érablière Abri Chutes

Causapscal

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Chute à Roger

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Rivière Assemetquagan

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Ste-Marguerite-Marie

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Causapscal

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(Camping Chez Moose)

Causapscal

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Étang Ray

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Lac Rouge

(St-Alexandre)

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(Erablière)

Chute à Philomène

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(Erablière)

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Saint Vianney

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Mont Charles-E.-Vézina (390)

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Stationnement des Pins

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Mont aux Perches (600)

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Mont Petchedetz

Mont William-Price

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(Lac Tombereau)

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Mont de l’Ouest

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Mont du Nid d’Aigle

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Mont du Nid d’Aigle

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(Lac Matane)

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(Lac du Gros Ruisseau)

Mont des Clercs

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Pic Bleu

(Lac du Gros Ruisseau)

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Ruisseau Dauzay

Mont Fernand-Fafard

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Rivière Matane

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(Lac Beaulieu) Mont des Fougères

Mont des Disparus Mont Desjardins

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Mont Bayfield Mont Séverin Pelletier

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Mont Nicol-Albert

Rivière Cap-Chat

Mont Ala’sui’nui

(Petit Sault)

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Mont Jean-Yves Bérubé

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(Ruisseau Bascon)

Chute Hélène

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Lac Coleman

Lac Bardey

Mont du lac Barbarin

(Ruisseau Bascon)

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Mont Fortin

Mont Matawees

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Lac Vignon

Mont Griscom (Nyctale et Chouette) Logan

Lac à Jos-Gagnon Mont Logan Mont Dodge

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Deuxième lac des îles

Lac Gagnon (Arnica)

(Nyctale et Chouette)

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Lac Choc

(Le Carouge)

Mont des Loupes

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Lac Côté

(Le Kalmia)

Lac Thibault

Ruisseau aux Saumons

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Le Noroît Lac Gaudreau

(Le Huard)

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Images aériennes SECTION 22: Refuge Huard à Refuge Mésange

Pic de l’Aube

(Le Saule)

Mont du Blizzard

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Images aériennes SECTION 23 : Refuge Mésange à Lac Cascapédia

(Le Saule)

(Le Mésange)

Lac aux Bouleaux

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Pic du Brulé

Mont Ernest-Ménard Lac Gouache

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(Lac Cascapédia)

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Mont du Milieu

Mont Ells

(La Paruline)

Lac Whalen 24- 1/1

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Lac Lemesurier

(La Fougère)

Lac Manni

(La Paruline) Lac Bionneau

Lac Whalen

Lac Ahier

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Chaîne Chic-Chocs

Grande Cuve

Grande Cuve Sud

La Serpentine

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Chute du Diable

La Serpentine Lac du Diable

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Mont Olivine

Images aériennes SECTION 25 : Refuge Paruline à Mont-Albert

(La Rivière) Centre de services Mont Albert

Gîte du Mont-Albert

(Camping-Refuges Mont-Albert)

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Images aériennes SECTION 26 : Mont-Albert à Refuge Tétras

(La Rivière) Rivière Ste-Anne Nord-Est Centre de services Mont Albert

Gîte du Mont-Albert

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(La Camarine)

(Le Tétras) Lac Samuel-Côté

Mont Xalibu

(Le Roselin)

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Images aériennes SECTION 27 : Refuge Tétras à Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier

Lac Tanguay

Mont Comte

(La Camarine)

(Le Tétras)

Lac Samuel-Côté

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Images aériennes SECTION 27 : Refuge Tétras à Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier

Lac du Vieillard

Mont Dos de la Baleine

Éole

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Pic des Os Perdus Mont Jacques-Cartier

Images aériennes SECTION 27 : Refuge Tétras à Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier

Ruisseau à Michaud

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Images aériennes SECTION 27 : Refuge Tétras à Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier

Ruisseau Madeleine Nord

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Images aériennes SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier à Refuge Cabourons

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Images aériennes SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier à Refuge Cabourons

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Images aériennes SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier à Refuge Cabourons

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Images aériennes SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier à Refuge Cabourons

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Images aériennes SECTION 28 : Camping Mont Jacques-Cartier à Refuge Cabourons

Rivière de Mont St-Pierre

(Cabourons)

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Images aériennes SECTION 29 : Refuge Cabourons à Mont St-Pierre

(Cabourons)

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Images aériennes SECTION 29 : Refuge Cabourons à Mont St-Pierre

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Images aériennes SECTION 29 : Refuge Cabourons à Mont St-Pierre

(Camping municipal Mont St-Pierre)

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Images aériennes SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre à Abri Ruisseau Flétan

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Images aériennes SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre à Abri Ruisseau Flétan

Mont Thomas-Mercier

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Images aériennes SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre à Abri Ruisseau Flétan 301/6

(Camping Parc et Mer)

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Images aériennes SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre à Abri Ruisseau Flétan

(Camping de l’Anse Pleureuse) L’Anse Pleureuse

Rue de la Montagne

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Images aériennes SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre à Abri Ruisseau Flétan

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Images aériennes SECTION 30 : Mont St-Pierre à Abri Ruisseau Flétan

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Images aériennes SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan à Madeleine-Centre

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Images aériennes SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan à Madeleine-Centre

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Images aériennes SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan à Madeleine-Centre

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Images aériennes SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan à Madeleine-Centre

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Images aériennes SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan à Madeleine-Centre

(Lac à Cyrille)

Lac Castor

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Images aériennes SECTION 31 : Abri Ruisseau Flétan à Madeleine-Centre

Petite Rivière Madeleine

Lac Castor

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Images aériennes SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre à Grande-Vallée

Phare du Cap-de-la-Madeleine

(Camping Mer et Montagne)

Anse de la Rivière Madeleine

Rivière La-Madeleine

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Images aériennes SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre à Grande-Vallée

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Images aériennes SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre à Grande-Vallée

Rivière Madeleine

Ruisseau des Petites Chutes

(Grand Sault)

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Images aériennes SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre à Grande-Vallée

Lac à Francis

Petit lac à Foin

Petit lac de l’Est Ruisseau des Petites Chutes Lac Mercier

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Images aériennes SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre à Grande-Vallée

Route 132

Le Grand Ruisseau

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Images aériennes SECTION 32 : Madeleine-Centre à Grande-Vallée

Halte routière Route 132

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Images aériennes SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée à Refuge Cascades

(Camping au Soleil Couchant)

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Images aériennes SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée à Refuge Cascades

Petite Vallée

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Images aériennes SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée à Refuge Cascades

Lac Long Lac Brûlé

Lac Asselin

Lac Orignal

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Images aériennes SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée à Refuge Cascades

(Terrasses)

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Images aériennes SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée à Refuge Cascades

Grand lac Alphée

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Images aériennes SECTION 33 : Grande-Vallée à Refuge Cascades

(Cascades)

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Images aériennes SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades à Abri La Chute

(Cascades)

Lac Mouron

Lac Bison

Lac Longpré

Lac Écureuil

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Images aériennes SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades à Abri La Chute

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Images aériennes SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades à Abri La Chute Saint Yvon

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Images aériennes SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades à Abri La Chute

Anse de l’Étang

La Grand Étang

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Images aériennes SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades à Abri La Chute

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Images aériennes SECTION 34 : Refuge Cascades à Abri La Chute

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Images aériennes SECTION 35 : Abri Chute à Refuge Zéphyr

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Images aériennes SECTION 35 : Abri Chute à Refuge Zéphyr

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Images aériennes SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr à Refuge Erablière

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Images aériennes SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr à Refuge Erablière

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Images aériennes SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr à Refuge Erablière

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Images aériennes SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr à Refuge Erablière

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Images aériennes SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr à Refuge Erablière

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Images aériennes SECTION 36 : Refuge Zéphyr à Refuge Erablière

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

(Camping des Appalaches)

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

Parc national Forillon

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

Parc national Forillon Rivière de la Division

Lac de la Montagne de Roche

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

Mont du lac à Canard

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Images aériennes SECTION 37 : Refuge Erablière à Camping Les Lacs

Lac de Penouille

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(les Lacs)

Images aériennes SECTION 38 : Camping Les Lacs à Camping Les Crêtes 1

(les Lacs)

Lac de Penouille

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Images aériennes SECTION 38 : Camping Les Lacs à Camping Les Crêtes 1

Rivière de l’Anse-au-Griifon

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Images aériennes SECTION 38 : Camping Les Lacs à Camping Les Crêtes 1

(Les Crêtes 1)

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Images aériennes SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 à Cap Gaspé

(Les Crêtes 1)

(Les Crêtes 2)

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Images aériennes SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 à Cap Gaspé

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Images aériennes SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 à Cap Gaspé

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Images aériennes SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 à Cap Gaspé

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Images aériennes SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 à Cap Gaspé

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Images aériennes SECTION 39 : Camping Les Crêtes 1 à Cap Gaspé

L’Anse aux Amérindiens

Cap-Gaspé

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