Charlevoix Attractions

Charlevoix is the name given to the stretch of country along the left bank of the St Lawrence River, from Côte de Beaupré as far as Saquenay. It gets its name from the Jesuit François Xavier De-Charlevoix (1682-1761), who published the first historical record of Canada in 1744. Extensive forests, mountains and the St Lawrence give Charlevoix its charm.

The first settlers arrived in Charlevoix early in the 18th c., when farmers, hunters and lumberjacks began to put down roots here in small numbers, at first in Petite-Rivière-St-François, then in Baie-St-Paul and on the Île aux Coudres.