The Islets-Caribou

the Islets-Caribou is a hamlet of the Coast-North Fleuve the St. Lawrence in the province of Quebec. The hamlet is a sector of Bay-Trinity. Long sand beaches white decorate the site. Two important families live there, the Jordan (formerly Jordan de Terrebonne ) and the Chouinard family.

The Islets-Caribou is a hamlet which has already enough a long story. Its establishment is attested on a geographical map going back to 1723 and one chart of Bellin going back to 1755. The name of the “Islet-Caribou” is ascribable in the past to the presence of Caribous in the surroundings. But with the development of the forestry companies, the Caribous gained the areas more in North. Here an extract drawn from the book of Santerre Louis-Angel, " De Tadoussac with Sept-Îles" (Lemeac edition, 1971):

"Hardly we took again the road 15 (today road 138), which we arrive at the river Large-Trinity. The village itself is not very old; the first inhabitant, Francis Poulin, arrived there in 1840, fishing originating in the southern bank which had made fishing in trimmings for already a few years. One of the hamlets of the village keeps its name, Point-Poulin, and its house is still preserved there. As for several villages of coast-north, it is Jacques Cartier who gave the name of Bay-Trinity to this place. At the time of its voyage in 1535, it stopped in bay the feastday of the Holy Trinity. Hardly left the village, we arrive at charming a small hamlet, the Islets-Caribou."

In its book, " On the paths of the coast-nord" , Eugene Achard tells the origins of the Islets-Caribou thus:

"Everywhere where the shore is too not with peak, the tides accumulated successive layers of sand interfered remains. So by chance some rocks are on the course, the vague one has good game of the ensabler, to increase it and make of it an island which, thereafter, will cover marine undergrowth and grasses. Such is the origin of the Islets-Caribou. It is a true chain of small islands, of which two are a little wide. These small islands, now stripped, or hardly covered with undergrowth, were formerly, says one, shaded trees, and many caribous came, in summer, to seek refuge there. Description is right and the veracious history. It should be added that the principal small islands are connected to the dry land by dunes. The hamlet itself is on the edge of the shore and date of 1845. The part of the river which extends between Pointe from the Mounts and the Islet-Caribou is very dangerous for the boats. There was, here still, of frequent shipwrecks. In the vault of the Islets, a plate memory recalls the shipwreck of North Shore, on August 12th, 1933, which had on its board the apostolic delegate of Canada, Monseigneur Casulo. All the passengers were helped by the fishermen. In this same vault, one finds the old high altar of the church of Midsummer's Day to the Île of Orleans. "

See too

Bay-Trinity

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