Tadoussac, La Haute-Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada
1883 - Tadoussac

Tadoussac is situated at the mouth of the far famed Saguenay river, 132 miles below Quebec. The harbour is small, but well protected and capable of affording anchorage and refuge to 20 or 25 large ships. The water rises twenty-one feet at high tide. The small village of Tadoussac is charmingly built on a semi-circular terrace surrounded by mountains. The
terrace is composed of alluvial sand, has an elevation of about fifty feet and is washed at its base by the waters of the Saguenay which are there mixed with those of the St. Lawrence. The beach is sandy, hard and quite suited for taking baths. The western point of the terrace is formed by an abrupt rock stretching into the waters of the Saguenay. There the french had erected a redoute commanding the Saguenay, the village and the basin. This stretching rock gives to the harbour its semi-circular from. Here the rock takes the name of Ilet Point. On the terrace appear the few houses of the village, surrounding the old chapel. This chapel, built in 1673 and consequently one of the oldest place of worship in Canada, is still
in good repair.

No place of summer resort on the Lower St. Lawrence combines more attractions to the tourist than the old french settlement of Tadoussac. There a few days may be pleasantly spent, enjoying the beautiful scenery surrounding the hotel and the magnificent sea
scenes which can be witnessed from the promenade fronting the hotel. Looking towards the St. Lawrence you discover Hare, Red, White and Green Islands, Cacouna and Rivière du Loup. The St. Lawrence opposite Tadoussac is about twenty miles broad. The land on the south shore appears like a blue cloud with white spots. Between Pointe aux Vaches and Pointe aux Alouettes, where is the junction with the St. Lawrence, the Saguenay is two and a half mile
broad, and while the St. Lawrence is only two hundred and fifty feet deep, the Saguenay is a thousand.

It may be mentioned here that Tadoussac is the
oldest french settlement in America. Jacques-Cartier landed there on the 1st of September 1535, during the voyage which resulted in the discovery of Canada. Tadoussac has always been a fur trading post since the settlement of the French in Canada until these last ten or twelve years.

Tadoussac is quite an aristocratic summer resort and near the hotel are to be found the residences of Lord Dufferin, formerly governor general of Canada, of senator Price, colonel Rhodes, M. Powell, of Philadelphia, Willis Russell, of the St, Louis Hotel, J. L. Gibb,
and J. Gilmour, of Quebec.

This place is reached by the splendid steamers
Saguenay, and Union, of the St. Lawrence and Saguenay
Line.


Guide to Quebec and the Lower Saint-Lawrence .... (1883). Canada: éditeur non identifié.

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