Jacques-Cartier mount
The Mont Jacques-Cartier (48° 59 ' NR, 65° 57 ' O) is more the high mountain of the solid mass of the Knack-Shocks and the south of Quebec, in the the Appalachian Mountains with its 1.268 Mr. It dominates also the National park of Gaspésie. It is possible to observe caribous at its top.
In 1923, a team of American botanists and the brother Marie-Victorin, Botaniste Québécois studied the flora of the mount. The peak was indicated besides Botanist' S Dome or peak of the Botanists. The mount sheltered before an old station of Radar of the Canadian Armée at the time of the Second world war. Certain vestiges of this time remain visible.
In 1934, the commission of geography of Canada proposes to adopt the name of Jacques Cartier to mark the 400e birthday of discovered of Canada.
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