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Is the Hinterlands of Quebec a popular destination to Quebecois for outdoor recreation? Like deep into the hinterland like Ottish Mountains, or Torngat, and hudson bay shoreline. What is there to do: hunting, spelunking, fishing, hiking, biking, four wheeling. Where are good locations?
You can practise all of the activities you mentioned in the Quebec wilderness.
Torngat is not a common destination as it is difficult to get to and there are few facilities for visitors. Consider that it is the same distance from Montreal as the border between Florida and Georgia!
Generally speaking, people don't have to go that far in order to find wilderness areas here. Usually three or four hours north of the major cities in Quebec and you are in pretty deep wilderness. I know that in my area of Gatineau a lot of people go to the Cabonga (700 km2) and Dozois (300 km2) reservoirs north of Maniwaki. You can drive to the "starting off points" for these places without too much trouble.
These are the types of places where most people go, although there are locations a bit further north which are more remote (sometimes only accessible by boat or plane) that some people also go to. Every year in all of the cities across Quebec there are "salons du plein air" (exhibitions) where people who operate facilities on remote lakes (known as pourvoiries) come to display what they have to offer.
This past fall, one of my neighbours went caribou hunting in the James Bay region. This is pretty far from here (1000 km+), but it is still in the middle of the province and not really close to being the far north.
Generally, as I said, you don't really have to go to the far north. The middle of the province has literally millions of lakes and most of it is completely wild.
Just to give you an example: I think Lake Mistassini, north of Chicoutimi, is very roughly the size of Luxembourg.
Is the Hinterlands of Quebec a popular destination to Quebecois for outdoor recreation? Like deep into the hinterland like Ottish Mountains, or Torngat, and hudson bay shoreline. What is there to do: hunting, spelunking, fishing, hiking, biking, four wheeling. Where are good locations?
Are there any urban legends or folktales about the Quebec Hinterlands you can tell me? Scary, inspirational, is all good to me.
From what I know, the natural resources up there are important to the economy of Quebec. So what mining towns, or lumber towns, or any are up there? Or is it all just speculative so know has actually to go up there to exploit?
From what I know, the natural resources up there are important to the economy of Quebec. So what mining towns, or lumber towns, or any are up there? Or is it all just speculative so know has actually to go up there to exploit?
There is a lot of natural resource exploitation taking place up there, but much of the territory is still relatively unspoiled because it is so huge. That said, many of the roads that are used by visitors were originally built for the resource industry.
From what I know, the natural resources up there are important to the economy of Quebec. So what mining towns, or lumber towns, or any are up there? Or is it all just speculative so know has actually to go up there to exploit?
There are many Abitibi and Côte-Nord towns that were built because of mining-related activities but the most well-known mining town in Quebec is Fermont, with its 1.3km-long "wall" (a huge commie block really) to protect the town from cold winter winds. You need to go through Labrador to reach the town by car though. I've read that in general, most mining operations in Northern Quebec fly in the workers for 2-week shifts (and then they're gone for 2 weeks), so these places would have few permanent residents. That's why for example population in Fermont has decreased even though the mine is doing well.
I don't know the James Bay area that well but I would assume that most non-autochtone settlements are related to hydroelectricity. Those places typically have many more people during construction and then get scaled back significantly once operations start.
EDIT: seems I was wrong and you can actually get to Fermont from Baie-Comeau through route 389 only (560km ride).
I don't know the James Bay area that well but I would assume that most non-autochtone settlements are related to hydroelectricity. Those places typically have many more people during construction and then get scaled back significantly once operations start.
Actually, there's only one non-native village in the whole of the James Bay region, the unincorporated town of Radisson. Since the dams were finished decades ago, there's only a couple hundred villagers there. Indeed, the James Bay area is a fundamentally Cree region, very different in culture from the rest of Quebec. They call their area Eeyou Istchee.
So no kind of scary legends about wendigos, tribes of cannibals descended from early viking explorers, chupacabras? Are there lots of sasquatch sightings up there? What kinds of bedtimes stories do french canadien mothers tell their kids about the great northern wilderness? Can anyone recommend a good movie that takes place up there?
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