Tadoussac -Longue-Rive (Route des Baleines 1/3)
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- Distance
- 43.1 mi
- Elevation gain
- 988 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 971 ft
- Max elevation
- 659 ft
- TrailRank
- 66
- Min elevation
- 76 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 6 hours 38 minutes
- Coordinates
- 5526
- Uploaded
- August 3, 2015
- Recorded
- August 2015
near Tadoussac, Quebec (Canada)
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Tadoussac is a village in Quebec, Canada, in the Regional County Municipality of La Haute-Côte-Nord and the Côte-Nord administrative region1. The 2006 census has 850 inhabitants2. Tadoussac is the first North American French establishment in North Florida.
Tadoussac could come from Montagnais "Totouskak" which means "udders"; two round hills are located west of the village.
• October 10, 1899: Erection of the village of Tadoussac.
• November 13, 1937: Erection of the parish of Tadoussac.
. April 9, 1949: Dissolution of the parish of Tadoussac.
Tadoussac is a pillar in the history of the colonization of New France. In 1535, going up the St. Lawrence River, Jacques Cartier is struck by its beauty and drops anchor. He was followed by Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit in 1599 and Samuel de Champlain in 1603, who shot the first pages of permanent European history in North America. Champlain even thought for a moment of establishing his colony in Tadoussac, but finally opted for Quebec, finding in this area a more welcoming region.
Tadoussac is the first North American French establishment in North Florida. First of all, a fur trading post is installed in France in New France (now in the province of Quebec in Canada). In 1599, King Henry IV granted the fur trade monopoly to Tadoussac, Dupont-Gravé and de Chauvin. The establishment was created in 1600 by François Dupont-Gravé and Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit. Only five of the sixteen men who accompanied him survived the first winter they spent in the "Habitation" they had built there. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the region was inhabited during the summer months by an Innu tribe whose chief was Begourat.
The village of Tadoussac is recognized as the oldest in Quebec, it celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2001.
The village of Tadoussac is on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Tadoussac is located in the province of Quebec in the North Shore.
The modern village of Tadoussac is located not far from the original trading post, at the mouth of the Saguenay River, on the borders of the tourist regions of Charlevoix and the North Shore. It is now a popular tourist destination, mainly for whale watching and the wild beauty of the Saguenay River glacial fjord. The village has also been recognized internationally since 1998 as part of the very select Club of the most beautiful bays in the world and it also becomes the first official member in North America. More than 300,000 visitors visit this village of less than 1,000 each year. There is the Tadoussac Chapel, the oldest surviving wooden chapel in Canada.
Hotel Tadoussac, 1915
The Tadoussac region is mainly made up of rural or wild areas and is the site of national and provincial parks, such as the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park and the Saguenay National Park. A few kilometers from the village, you can climb the highest sand dunes in Canada. The Grand Hotel de Tadoussac also enjoys an international reputation, famous for its red roof immortalized by the filming of The New Hampshire Hotel after John Irving's novel. The Little Chapel, the Marine Mammal Interpretation Center and the Chauvin Trading Post are among the most popular tourist attractions for visitors from all over the world.
The Saguenay River flows into the St. Lawrence River and brings cold fresh water. However, at this point, because the river contains salt water and is much deeper, we are witnessing the construction of ideal turbulence where a unique flora and fauna abound. This is the reason why whales meet there. There are the largest cetaceans, including fin whales and sometimes blue whales. The seabed around Tadoussac has become the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park.
The Marine Mammal Interpretation Center, which also houses a Center for Scientific Research on Cetaceans and Marine Mammals, is open to visitors from May to October.
Longue-Rive is a municipality of Quebec in the regional county municipality of La Haute-Côte-Nord and in the administrative region of Côte-Nord.
• June 2, 1898: Erection of the township of Saint-Paul de Mille-Vaches.
• July 4, 1931: The canton of Saint-Paul de Mille-Vaches becomes the municipality of Saint-Paul du-Nord.
• January 1, 1947: Erection of the village of Sault-au-Mouton.
• March 15, 1969: The municipality of Saint-Paul du-Nord becomes the municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord. The village of Sault-au-Mouton becomes the village of Sault-au-Mouton.
• May 28, 1997: Merger of the municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord and the village of Sault-au-Mouton and creation of the municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord - Sault-au-Mouton.
October 10, 1998: The Municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord - Sault-au-Mouton becomes the municipality of Longue-Rive.
The many tourists visiting Tadoussac are particularly attracted by the cultural bubbling that is found in summer. One can discover among others the summer programming of the Festival of the Song of Tadoussac in the month of June. The rest of the summer, we can attend shows almost daily, either at the Café du Fjord, the Youth Hostel, the Gibar, Father Coquart Café Bohème or the basement of the church , as part of the Festival. One of the members of Quebec's worldbeat group Sagapool is from the village, so we can hear the band there every year. We can also see the troupe of the Ubus Theater which occurs every summer aboard a school bus. In recent years, a festival of traditional music has also been held in autumn. And most recently, in the summer of 2014, Tadoussac hosted the first Biblio beach in Quebec, the Biblio beach of Mrs. Chose!
• The Tadoussac Indian Chapel is one of the oldest wooden churches in North America4. The current chapel was built in 1747 under the orders of Father Claude Coquart, the work was completed on June 24, 1750.
• The Hotel Tadoussac was built in 1866 and rebuilt in 1942 in Anglo-Norman style, it was renovated in 2000/2001.
• Nicknamed "La Toupie", the lighthouse at the Prince's Shoal is located in the middle of the St. Lawrence River at the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord, about 7 km east of the village of Tadoussac. It is approximately 25.3 meters.
The Holy Cross Church
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadoussac)
Longue-Rive was born from the merger of two villages, Sault-au-Mouton and Saint-Paul du Nord. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Saint-Paul du Nord (then known as Baie-des-Mille-Vaches) lived on agriculture. A church was built there in 1901. The population west of the village, on the banks of the Sault-au-Mouton River, lives on logging, the river used for logging. A mill is built at the foot of the falls.
In 1947, the territory of Sault-au-Mouton separated from Saint-Paul du Nord and the municipality of Sault-au-Mouton was created. In 1997, the population of the two villages voted mainly for a merger. The new name is adopted shortly before the year 2000.
Longue-Rive is part of the electoral district of Montmorency-Charlevoix-Haute-Côte-Nord in the House of Commons of Canada and the riding of René-Lévesque at the National Assembly of Quebec.
(Cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue-Rive)
Tadoussac could come from Montagnais "Totouskak" which means "udders"; two round hills are located west of the village.
• October 10, 1899: Erection of the village of Tadoussac.
• November 13, 1937: Erection of the parish of Tadoussac.
. April 9, 1949: Dissolution of the parish of Tadoussac.
Tadoussac is a pillar in the history of the colonization of New France. In 1535, going up the St. Lawrence River, Jacques Cartier is struck by its beauty and drops anchor. He was followed by Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit in 1599 and Samuel de Champlain in 1603, who shot the first pages of permanent European history in North America. Champlain even thought for a moment of establishing his colony in Tadoussac, but finally opted for Quebec, finding in this area a more welcoming region.
Tadoussac is the first North American French establishment in North Florida. First of all, a fur trading post is installed in France in New France (now in the province of Quebec in Canada). In 1599, King Henry IV granted the fur trade monopoly to Tadoussac, Dupont-Gravé and de Chauvin. The establishment was created in 1600 by François Dupont-Gravé and Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit. Only five of the sixteen men who accompanied him survived the first winter they spent in the "Habitation" they had built there. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the region was inhabited during the summer months by an Innu tribe whose chief was Begourat.
The village of Tadoussac is recognized as the oldest in Quebec, it celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2001.
The village of Tadoussac is on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Tadoussac is located in the province of Quebec in the North Shore.
The modern village of Tadoussac is located not far from the original trading post, at the mouth of the Saguenay River, on the borders of the tourist regions of Charlevoix and the North Shore. It is now a popular tourist destination, mainly for whale watching and the wild beauty of the Saguenay River glacial fjord. The village has also been recognized internationally since 1998 as part of the very select Club of the most beautiful bays in the world and it also becomes the first official member in North America. More than 300,000 visitors visit this village of less than 1,000 each year. There is the Tadoussac Chapel, the oldest surviving wooden chapel in Canada.
Hotel Tadoussac, 1915
The Tadoussac region is mainly made up of rural or wild areas and is the site of national and provincial parks, such as the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park and the Saguenay National Park. A few kilometers from the village, you can climb the highest sand dunes in Canada. The Grand Hotel de Tadoussac also enjoys an international reputation, famous for its red roof immortalized by the filming of The New Hampshire Hotel after John Irving's novel. The Little Chapel, the Marine Mammal Interpretation Center and the Chauvin Trading Post are among the most popular tourist attractions for visitors from all over the world.
The Saguenay River flows into the St. Lawrence River and brings cold fresh water. However, at this point, because the river contains salt water and is much deeper, we are witnessing the construction of ideal turbulence where a unique flora and fauna abound. This is the reason why whales meet there. There are the largest cetaceans, including fin whales and sometimes blue whales. The seabed around Tadoussac has become the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park.
The Marine Mammal Interpretation Center, which also houses a Center for Scientific Research on Cetaceans and Marine Mammals, is open to visitors from May to October.
Longue-Rive is a municipality of Quebec in the regional county municipality of La Haute-Côte-Nord and in the administrative region of Côte-Nord.
• June 2, 1898: Erection of the township of Saint-Paul de Mille-Vaches.
• July 4, 1931: The canton of Saint-Paul de Mille-Vaches becomes the municipality of Saint-Paul du-Nord.
• January 1, 1947: Erection of the village of Sault-au-Mouton.
• March 15, 1969: The municipality of Saint-Paul du-Nord becomes the municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord. The village of Sault-au-Mouton becomes the village of Sault-au-Mouton.
• May 28, 1997: Merger of the municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord and the village of Sault-au-Mouton and creation of the municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord - Sault-au-Mouton.
October 10, 1998: The Municipality of Saint-Paul-du-Nord - Sault-au-Mouton becomes the municipality of Longue-Rive.
The many tourists visiting Tadoussac are particularly attracted by the cultural bubbling that is found in summer. One can discover among others the summer programming of the Festival of the Song of Tadoussac in the month of June. The rest of the summer, we can attend shows almost daily, either at the Café du Fjord, the Youth Hostel, the Gibar, Father Coquart Café Bohème or the basement of the church , as part of the Festival. One of the members of Quebec's worldbeat group Sagapool is from the village, so we can hear the band there every year. We can also see the troupe of the Ubus Theater which occurs every summer aboard a school bus. In recent years, a festival of traditional music has also been held in autumn. And most recently, in the summer of 2014, Tadoussac hosted the first Biblio beach in Quebec, the Biblio beach of Mrs. Chose!
• The Tadoussac Indian Chapel is one of the oldest wooden churches in North America4. The current chapel was built in 1747 under the orders of Father Claude Coquart, the work was completed on June 24, 1750.
• The Hotel Tadoussac was built in 1866 and rebuilt in 1942 in Anglo-Norman style, it was renovated in 2000/2001.
• Nicknamed "La Toupie", the lighthouse at the Prince's Shoal is located in the middle of the St. Lawrence River at the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord, about 7 km east of the village of Tadoussac. It is approximately 25.3 meters.
The Holy Cross Church
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadoussac)
Longue-Rive was born from the merger of two villages, Sault-au-Mouton and Saint-Paul du Nord. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Saint-Paul du Nord (then known as Baie-des-Mille-Vaches) lived on agriculture. A church was built there in 1901. The population west of the village, on the banks of the Sault-au-Mouton River, lives on logging, the river used for logging. A mill is built at the foot of the falls.
In 1947, the territory of Sault-au-Mouton separated from Saint-Paul du Nord and the municipality of Sault-au-Mouton was created. In 1997, the population of the two villages voted mainly for a merger. The new name is adopted shortly before the year 2000.
Longue-Rive is part of the electoral district of Montmorency-Charlevoix-Haute-Côte-Nord in the House of Commons of Canada and the riding of René-Lévesque at the National Assembly of Quebec.
(Cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue-Rive)
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