Jacques-Cartier National Park, Quebec.
Very quiet and, to me, the best view of the park!

September 2007


The 177 kilometre-long Jacques-Cartier River is located in south-central Quebec and is easily accessible for nearly all of its length, from its source in the Laurentian Mountains midway between Chicoutimi and Quebec, to its mouth 30 kilometres west of Quebec City.

The river is protected for most of its length by Jacques-Cartier Provincial Park in the north and by other publicly owned lands to the south (77% of the shoreline is publicly owned). Most of the river (128 kms) has been nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers System for its outstanding beauty, its enormous recreational potential, and for its heritage value in representing the natural and historical evolution of Quebec.


Of outstanding, indeed spectacular, beauty in Jacques-Cartier Provincial Park, the river also displays the geological evolution of southern Quebec. The primary feature of the valley is its representation of the two main geological structures associated with Quebec: the Canadian Shield to the north and St. Lawrence Lowlands in the south.

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