Best of Baie-Comeau
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Port
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada
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Activity Level
Moderate
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Excursion Type
All
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Wheelchair Accessible
No
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Starting At
$139.95
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Minimum Age
Information Not Currently Available
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Duration
Approxiamately 2¾ Hours
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Meals Included
Meals included
Combining history, the grand nature of the landscape, and the living experience of lumberjacks, this tour offers an excellent overview of Baie-Comeau.
Robert McCormick, President of the Chicago Tribune, founded Baie-Comeau in 1937 to supply pulp and paper plant for his newspaper business. Today, Baie-Comeau is a high-tech industrial hub for hydroelectricity. Learn about the city's rich religious and cultural heritage and the strong character of the 23,000 hearty souls living in this remote location.
Snap a few photos from the Havre St Pancrace lookout, 1,900 feet above sea level. During Prohibition, this isolated spot was a popular delivery point for contraband liquor.
At the Village Forestier d'Antan Interpretive Center, forestry activities such as cutting, hauling and driving are explained. Typical buildings, period objects, and old photographs illustrate the lumberjacks' living conditions and way of life.
End your tour with a walk through Baie-Comeau's Old Town, including Place La Salle. This quaint commercial arterial is full of sites of historical interest, specialty food shops, souvenir stores, art galleries, fine restaurants, and nightclubs. See Champlain Street, where Brian Mulroney, former Premier of Canada, spent his childhood.
Notes:
Wear comfortable walking shoes.