After a long flight down the great river, after a bird’s eye view of the breathtaking coastline on the Lower North Shore, the immensity of boreal forest, the thousands of lakes, rivers and islands that set this unexplored region of Quebec apart, your plane touches down in Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon, a place long isolated from major urban centers.

Here begins your exploration of this extraordinary jewel, once dubbed The land God gave to Cain.  But Jacques Cartier got it wrong. The dynamic and determined developers in Blanc-Sablon and the neighbouring communities of Bonne-Espérance will show you just how wrong he was!

Life out here emerged from centuries of visits, short and long; from a fabulous history of great whale hunters, of shipwrecks, of fortunes made and lost in the Atlantic fisheries.  Still today, the original Acadien, Newfoundland and Indigenous accents are heard up and down the 200 km-long Coast.

Cruise with the Coasters* in the Straight of Belle Isle, where icebergs often linger on the long, beautifully cool days of summer.

*Coasters are our own homegrown adventurers, storytellers, and community leaders, who will accompany, guide and entertain you on visits and tours during your trip.