Harbor-Saint-Pierre

Harbor-Saint-Pierre is a Municipalité Quebec located in the regional Municipalité of county of the Minganie and the area of the Coast-North located vis-a-vis the archipelago of the islands of Mingan.

This city started to develop 1857 when six families of fishermen of the island-of-the-Madeleine - families of Firmin Boudreau, Nathael Boudreau (his/her son), Benjamin Landry, François Petitpas, Joseph Boudreau and Louis Cormier - left the Islands on board goélette The Mariner . They were approximately 30 people on board when they came to be established with the Point, since they met too many difficulties in the Islands. This is why the inhabitants of this city are of descent Acadie and do not speak a dialect different from the surrounding villages, which are connected much with the acadian French .

This city was named, in the beginning, Point-with-Eskimos but are name was changed in 1927 for Harbor-Saint-Pierre in the honor of the owner of the fishermen, Saint Pierre. In the middle of the 20th century, a new industry developed when mines of Titane were discovered to 45 km in the north of the city. This industry took much expansion and the exploitation of titanium is today the principal economic activity of Harbor-Saint-Pierre. The inhabitants of the village even say that the legs of the lunar module of Apollo 11 one built with titanium coming from their area.

Tourism is also an important economic activity, several companies offering of the guided tours of the many islands of the archipelago of Mingan. The city is also recognized for its fishing of the Crabe of snows, of the Moules, the Pétoncle S and the Homard. The city has also the most important hospital in the east of Seven-Islands.

Harbor-Saint-Pierre is the wearing of access of the National park of Archipelago-to-Mingan.

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