Sept-Iles : Meeting Point of Two Cultures
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DURATION: 3 h 15CAPACITY / DEPARTURE: 160 PAX
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AVERAGE INTERVAL OF DEPARTURES: AM / PMTRANSPORT: BUS
Before European’s arrival on the continent, the Innus inhabited tents made of animal skins, and referred to Mother-Earth to feed from their hunting and tracking activities.
The Shaputuan Museum tells the thousand-year-old story of this nomadic people and its ancestral home. The permanent exhibition, Innu utassi (Innu land) follows this community through the seasons and their annual life cycle. In this gathering place, meeting place and sharing place, you will discover past and present Innu culture.
Relive the past by visiting a unique site: The Old Trading Post. Immerse yourself back in 1842, at the time living of Hudson Bay Company, in the center of the retort of the Old Post occupied successively by the French people and the English people. This Old Fur Trading Post has been the first European settlement in Sept-Îles.
A mesmerizing photographic stopover in the Jardins de l’Anse will allow you to admire the panorama of Sept-Îles and its Great Bay (Uashat)