Grande-Entrée Explained

47.5528°N -61.5472°WGrande-Entrée is a village in the municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine. It is located on Grande Entrée Island (Île de la Grande Entrée), part of the Magdalen Islands archipelago, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. The village is made up of two points of land facing each other which, between their arms, form a bay where boats can enter as if in a natural harbour, hence the name Grande-Entrée.^[1]

Scots settled on the island at the end of the 18th century, but Basque fishermen had already stopped over there during the 16th century. An identification guide formarine fishes of the estuary and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence was completed in 2008.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Grande-Entrée (Municipalité) . Commission de toponymie Quebec . Government of Quebec . 8 March 2024 . 2002-01-24 . Adjacent to the village municipality of Grosse-Île in the Magdalen Islands, this municipality was officially established in 1929.
2. Web site: C. . Nozères. D. . Archambault. P.M. . Chouinard. J. . Gauthier. R. . Miller. E. . Parent. P. . Schwab. L. . Savard. J.D. . Dutil . Identification guide for marine fishes of the estuary and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and sampling protocols used during trawl surveys between 2004 and 2008 . Regional Science Branch Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Maurice Lamontagne Institute . 8 April 2024 . en, fr . 2010 . Important source of information on the status of marine resources harvested in the estuary and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence..