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	Island of Montreal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Helen's Island and Ile Notre-Dame are in the Saint Lawrence southeast of downtown Montreal.
		The south-west of the island is separated by the Lachine Canal between Lachine and Montreal's Old Port; this portion of the island is partially divided further by the Canal de l'Aqueduc, running roughly parallel to the Lachine Canal, beginning in the borough of LaSalle and continuing between the boroughs of Le Sud-Ouest and Verdun.
		The first French name for the island was "l'ille de Vilmenon," noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of Quebec at the court of Louis XIII.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Island_of_Montreal (517 words)

	Anticosti Island
		Anticosti Island is situated right at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
		There are many stories surrounding the goings-on at Anticosti Island including one of a mad trapper whom convinced other islanders that he was, if not himself the devil, at least in the company of a devil.
		Anticosti Island is considered the "Graveyard of the St Lawrence", having claimed in excess of 400 wrecks.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Quebec/anticosti_island.htm (638 words)

	Anticosti Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anticosti Island (French, l'Île d'Anticosti) is a rocky, forest covered island at the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada, between 49° and 50° N., and between 61° 40' and 64° 30' W..
		It is separated on the north from the Côte-Nord region of Quebec (the Labrador Peninsula) by the Jacques Cartier Strait and on the south from the Gaspé Peninsula by the Honguedo Strait.
		It is very large (217 km long and 16-48 km wide - larger than the province of Prince Edward Island), but very sparsely populated (264 people in 1991), mostly in the village of Port-Menier on the western tip of the island, consisting chiefly of the keepers of the numerous lighthouses erected by the Canadian government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anticosti_Island (378 words)

	Anticosti, Île d'
		The island was granted as a seigneury in 1680 to Louis JOLLIET in recognition of his exploration of the Mississippi River.
		The island has a rich variety of wildlife, the most notable being the more than 120 000 Virginia white-tailed deer -- the progeny of 220 brought by Menier in 1896.
		Thousands of ships pass the island each year, and its treacherous reefs have given it the nickname "Graveyard of the Gulf." It is estimated that some 400 ships have foundered on the reefs, most in the 18th and 19th centuries, before the establishment of lighthouses.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000240 (492 words)

	Anticosti Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		French Île-d'anticosti, island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, part of the Côte-Nord region, southeastern Quebec province, Canada.
		Anticosti rises to 625 feet (191 m) in hills along its north coast; it is well forested with spruce, fir, and pine.
		Anticosti rises to 625 feet (191 m) in hills along its north coast; it is well forested with spruce,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9007817 (828 words)

	Anticosti
		Anticosti Island sits proudly at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River where it empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, some 340 miles northeast of Montreal.
		Although Anticosti boasts one of the highest concentrations of whitetails found anywhere, this was not always the case.
		Shots are typically under 100 yards on Anticosti, unless you happen to spot a deer at the far end of one of the island’s numerous meadows.
	www.theoutdoorquest.com /Articles/anticosti.htm (2814 words)

	:: Buckmasters Online :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All 130,000 of the island's estimated whitetail population are descended from that original shipment of deer.
		Anticosti doesn't get the notoriety -- at least any more -- of many deer hunting Meccas, but it is still one of the most popular whitetail destinations around.
		"The camp we hunt is Chicotte on the southern shore of the island.
	www.buckmasters.com /buckmasters_links/features/030225Island.html (649 words)

	CRCA \| KANAWA Magazine Featured Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anticosti literally means (from the French), a place where you can’t land a boat.
		The island is shaped like a football, and in the sea it has played the mid-linebacker position, claiming approximately 400 shipwrecks from the 1600s to the last shipwreck in 1982.
		Salvage was a common practice on Anticosti, but he was accused of being a moonraker (purposefully misleading ships to hit the island shore so he might reap the bounty from the wreckage).
	www.paddlingcanada.com /kanawa/issues/winter03.php (2356 words)

	Chapitre 1 Long-term effects of white-tailed deer on the structure and composition of heavily browsed boreal plant ...
		Anticosti island is a 7943 km2 boreal forest area located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (49°03’- 49°55’N and 61°45’-64°35’W).
		Finally, Anticosti Island and Mingan islands form one biological unit that differs markedly from the Gaspé Peninsula, the nearest mainland to the south, and from the North shore of the St. Lawrence (Roberge 1996).
		Field surveys were conducted from late June to late August 2001 in the western part of Anticosti and on five islands of the Mingan Archipelago (île du Havre, île du Fantôme, île Niapiskau, île Quarry, Grande Île) selected for their large size, their similarities with Anticosti in terms of forest composition and their accessibility (Fig.
	www.theses.ulaval.ca /2003/21004/ch02.html (6001 words)

	CANOE Travel - Canada - Canada's best kept secret
		The island had been in private hands since the 1670s when it was awarded as a fiefdom to explorer Louis Jolliet, before ownership was tossed back and forth between Quebec and Newfoundland.
		The shores of Anticosti Island are dotted with shipwrecks.
		The island's limestone is awash with dozens of creeks and rivers, perfect for a refreshing wade.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/Canada/Quebec/2005/10/12/1259480-sun.html (1188 words)

	Encyclopedia: Anticosti Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Port-Menier is the main town on Anticosti Island, a large, sparsely populated island of Quebec.
		Islands of Quebec Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica (1910-1911) represents the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century; indeed, it was advertised as such.
		Anticosti Island is also a paradise for amateur palaeontologists.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anticosti-Island (1100 words)

	Wreck of the Grannicus, Anticosti 1829.
		Captain Gabriel Gabouri, of the schooner Elize, has lately returned from Anticosti, and states, in addition to the particulars already published of the horrible state in which the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers, from the wreck, supposed to be of the Granicus, were found; that Mr.
		He landed with his whole crew at the post in Belle Bay, Anticosti, on the 16th July, and found in one of the houses, nearly half a bushel of pieces of bone, about six inches in length, and scraps of flesh; that a hole was dug in the floor where they had made their fire.
		Gamache, the keeper of the post near Jupiter River, on the Island of Anticosti, whose family was reported to have been murdered last fall, and of which report no certain contradiction had yet appeared, arrived today, having left his family in good health on Wednesday.
	www.geocities.com /grbosse.geo/granicus/granicus.html (1897 words)

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		Anticosti Island is remote, accessible only by ferry for oil and gas field operations.
		Anticosti is situated in a favorable structural position, on an inflection point -- or a transform zone -- at the leading edge of the Appalachian thrust front.
		The island is bisected by the Jupiter Fault Zone, a right lateral, strike-slip feature similar to the Bowling Green Fault Zone of the Lima-Indiana Field that has 500 million barrels of oil and 2 tcf of gas.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/2004/04apr/tbr_anticosti.cfm (1207 words)

	Anticosti Island - Welcome to Quebec, Canada on The Worldwide Traveler
		Port-Menier (280 inhabitants) is the principle entry point to Anticosti Island which is located at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
		The island, 222 kilometres long by 56 kilometres wide, is known for the history of Henri Menier, the celebrated French chocolate manufacturer who made it his domain at the end of the last century.
		The canyon of the Vaureal River with its falls that plunge 70 meters is a particularly spectacular result.
	www.theworldwidegourmet.com /travel/canada/quebec/anticosti.htm (247 words)

	University of Maine at Fort Kent - Valley Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anticosti is a 3,200 square-mile island that spreads across the entry of the St. Lawrence Seaway between the Gaspe Peninsula and Newfoundland.
		The island remained uninhabited until 1680, when Louis XIV of France gave it to Louis Joillet as a gift for his discovery of the Mississippi River.
		After several failed attempts to inhabit the island, Henri Menier, a French chocolate magnate, purchased the land in 1853 and proceeded to invest five million dollars to transform it into a garden paradise.
	www.umfk.maine.edu /valleyvision/release/default.cfm?recordID=99012 (587 words)

	Journal of Paleontology: New cyclocystoid (Phylum Echinodermata) from Anticosti Island, Quebec, and its bearing on ...
		A third Anticosti Island cyclocystoid specimen of unknown affinities is described from the same locality.
		The Mill Bay Member is the second youngest member of the Vaureal Formation on Anticosti Island and is Rawtheyan (Ashgill) in age (equivalent to Richmondian, Cincinnatian).
		The Mill Bay Member of the Vaureal Formation is a shallow shelf, mixed carbonate-shale sequence in western Anticosti Island that was deposited during a lowstand sea level (Long and Copper, 1987; Copper and Long, 1998).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3790/is_200309/ai_n9295266 (1270 words)

	Anticosti: Quebec’s Graveyard of the Gulf by Nancy Lyon \| Travel Reviews from Travel Intelligence
		Quebec City-born Jolliet, discoverer of the Hudson Bay and the Mississippi River, was Anticosti’s first “owner.” This doomed island was granted to him as a fiefdom and seigniory by King Louis XIV.
		Then he autocratically forbid the island’s remaining 300 settlers from the Gaspé, Newfoundland, the Orkney Islands, New Brunswick and Acadia to possess alcohol or firearms, or to hunt or fish.
		Whatever the truth, the biggest island ever privately owned in the world, one-quarter the size of Belgium, does evoke the stuff of myth, fantasy, and the supernatural.
	www.travelintelligence.com /wsd/articles/art_2539.html (1901 words)

	Serological evidence of bovine herpesvirus 1-related virus infection in the white-tailed deer population on Anticosti ...
		High white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population densities and the occurrence of harsh environmental conditions are present on Anticosti Island, located in the Gulf of Saint-Lawrence (Quebec, Canada).
		This island is the northernmost region of white-tailed deer distribution in northeastern North America.
		Analysis of antibody titers in seropositive animals according to age suggests that BHV1-related viral infection is endemic in the Anticosti Island deer population.
	www.jwildlifedis.org /cgi/content/abstract/25/2/202 (230 words)

	MRNF- Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anticosti Island is a North Shore paradise that owes its international reputation to its enormous
		Since the deer were introduced, the size of the Island's fir forest has shrunk to half its original area, and the residual fir stands will attain their maximum natural life span in the next 30 to 50 years.
		To achieve this, we are working with the Island's outfitters to reduce deer density in the long-term while maintaining the hunting industry.
	www.mrn.gouv.qc.ca /english/press/speeches-detail.jsp?id=2205 (559 words)

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		Pointe-Nord is located on the northern tip of Anticosti Island; our neighbors are, west: Baie Sainte Claire, eighteen miles by land or sea; east: Havre du Brique, thirty miles away, north: Longue-Pointe and Mingan, twenty miles by sea; Havre St Pierre is approximately thirty miles by sea.
		It may look like fantasy dreams, but don't forget we are in 1939; Anticosti is a large island well protected by mother nature, the sea gets very rough at times, and there is only a few harbours for medium size boats; small boat operator has to know the island well in order to survive.
		The island was the property of Consolidated Paper Corporation, due to the economic recession the Company had closed its wood harvesting operation, and was mainly depending on tourism and hunting for revenues.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /gerard/pnord_e.htm (457 words)

	Environmental Studies at the University of Maine at Fort Kent
		Anticosti Island is a 3,200 square mile island located at the mouth of the St. Lawrence Seaway between the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and Newfoundland.
		Once owned by French chocolate magnate Henri Menier, who transformed the ecology of the island with his introduction of white tail deer for hunting, silver fox for breeding, and leopard frogs for eating mosquitos, students investigate numerous aspects of this very different island ecosystem.
		They are greeted each morning by many of the 10,000 deer that currently inhabit the island, which, with the Atlantic salmon that swim the island's wild rivers, have made Anticosti Island a hunting and fishing paradise.
	www.umfk.maine.edu /academics/programs/enviro/summer/anticosti (172 words)

	Information on Safari Anticosti Outfitters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Several different attempts to develop the island failed until the arrival of Henri Menier; the French chocolate magnate who bought the island in 1895 to turn it into a garden paradise.
		In 1926, the island passed into the hands of the Anticosti Corporation for $6.5 million dollars and later became a subsidiary of Consolidated Bathurst which, in 1974, sold the island to the Government of Quebec for $26 million.
		In 1984, Anticosti Outfitters Inc. obtained a lease for the eastern sector of the island.
	www.safarianticosti.com /chasse/en/information/info1.html (125 words)

	Voyage of the Paper Canoe - CHAPTER I.
		The island which divides an upper arm of the gulf into two wide channels is one hundred and twenty-three miles long, and from ten to thirty miles wide.
		Once past the island the ship is well within the estuary of the gulf into which the St. Lawrence River flows, contributing the waters of the great lakes of the continent to the sea.
		Lawrence River, the large and well cultivated island of Orleans is passed, and the bold fortifications of Quebec, high up on the face of Point Diamond, and flanked by the houses of the French city, break upon the vision of the mariner.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/geography/VoyageofthePaperCanoe/chap1.html (1983 words)

	Anticosti Island Is Deer Hunters Paradise Gary Moore - The Caledonian-Record News
		It is then on to camp to sight in the rifles and settle in to await the next morning and the beginning of the hunt.
		On the island, the Vermonters stayed at a camp called "Brick" which is a log style camp with gas powered cook stove and heat, along with hot/cold running water and shower.
		Last year, their Anticosti hunt yielded seven bucks, the largest was a heavy beamed 6 pointer that Lang bagged.
	www.caledonianrecord.com /pages/gary_moore/story/86e6a9d8b (1113 words)

	TrekEarth \| SEPAQ Anticosti Photo
		Known primarily as a paradise for white-tailed deer hunting, Anticosti Island is also a land of great ecological wealth and breathtaking natural beauty.
		Anticosti is 35 km from Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan to the north and 72 km from Forillon Point in Gaspé to the south.
		To give you a better idea of its size, this majestic island is 17 times larger than the Island of Montréal, 50 times bigger than Île d'Orléans, and one and a half times the size of Prince Edward Island.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/North_America/Canada/photo41076.htm (174 words)

	Phase II - bilan environnemental, Côte-Nord, 23 octobre 1997
		The environmental report on the study area draws on four technical reports describing characteristics of this part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in particular, sources of contamination, biological resources, use patterns and development options, as well as the human health risks associated with activities centring on the St. Lawrence.
		The North Shore-Anticosti Island sector encompasses the shoreline areas of the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence between Pointe des Monts to the west and Blanc Sablon to the east, and the shoreline of Anticosti Island.
		The main wintering areas for the Common Eider are located in the Mingan Archipelago and around Anticosti Island.
	www.slv2000.qc.ca /communiques/phase2/bilan_zip_cotenord_a.htm (913 words)

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