Tadoussac

Tadoussac is a village of the Quebec, with the Canada, located in the regional Municipalité of county of High-Coast-North and the administrative area of the Coast-North.

History

Tadoussac (Municipality of village) is equipped with an exceptional decoration made with mountains and with water, rocks and of greenery. This municipality of village, established to 222 km in the North-East of Quebec, constitutes the threshold of the area of Manicouagan and the entry of the fjord of Saguenay, very close to Sacred Heart and Bergeronnes, on left bank of the estuary of the St. Lawrence (maritime section according to divisions of the Flora laurentienne).

Tadoussac constitutes a bastion of the history of the colonization of the News-France. In 1535, by going up the river St-Laurent, Jacques Cartier is seized by its beauty and there drops anchor to visit the places. It is followed of Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit in 1599 and of Samuel de Champlain (1603) which turned there the first pages of the European permanent history to North America. Champlain would have even thought a moment of establishing its colony with Tadoussac, but finally chose Quebec finding in this corner a more accessible area.

Tadoussac is the first North-American French establishment in the north of Florida. One first of all installs there a station of draft of the fur of France in News-France (maintaining in the province of Quebec to the Canada). The establishment was created in 1600 by Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit. Only five of the sixteen men who accompanied it survived the first winter that they passed in l'" Habitation" that they had built there.

The village of Tadoussac is recognized like the oldest village in Canada, has just celebrated its 400e birthday in 2000.

The modern village of Tadoussac is located not far from the original station of draft, with the mouth of the river Saguenay, with the limits of the tourist areas of Charlevoix and of the Coast-North. It is now a tourist destination appraisal, mainly for the observation of the Baleine S and thanks to the wild beauty of the glacial Fjord of the Saguenay river. The village is also recognized internationally since 1998 like belonging to very the sélect club of most beautiful bays in the world and he becomes about it also the first official member in North America. More than 300.000 visitors visit each year this village of less than 1.000 hearts. One finds the oldest still existing wood vault there to the Canada.

The area of Tadoussac is mainly made up of rural areas or savages and is the site of national parks and provincial, such as the marine Parc of the Saguenay-Saint-Laurent and the National park of Saguenay. With a few kilometers of the village, one can climb there the highest sand dunes of Canada. The Large Hotel of Tadoussac also enjoys an international reputation, famous for its red roof. The Small Vault, the Center of interpretation of the marine mammals and the Station of Chauvin draft are among the tourist attractions most snuffed by the visitors of the four corners of the world.

In Tadoussac, one finds a paradise of the Krill and single Plancton in the world, snuffed so much by the plungers. The river Saguenay is thrown in the river St-Laurent and brings cold fresh water there. However, this place, owing to the fact that the river contains salt water and that it is much deeper, one attends with the construction of ideal turbulences so that pullulate a fauna and a single Flore. This is why the whales give each other appointment to it. Sea-bed around Tadoussac became one of the rare underwater National parks of the government of the Quebec.

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