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Port-Menier, Quebec

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The village is the hub of Anticosti Island. Its population doubles in the summer with seasonal workers and tourists. The economic mainstays are outdoor tourism, especially deer hunting, and forestry/logging. Services available in Port-Menier are: general and grocery stores, gas station, banking
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became the first owner and Seigneurial Lord of the entire Anticosti Island. Together with him, the first few settlers arrived on the island. But no significant development took place until 1895 when Henri Menier bought the island and hoped to set up a
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After Henri Menier's death, the island and the village remained in his family until 1926 after which it became property of a succession of logging companies. The village was thereby not much more than a
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and saw little development. In 1974, the Quebec government bought the island and set up a working municipal council in 1984.
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in 1895 but the bay proved too shallow for the large ships he would need. In 1900, he moved the settlement to
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church, general store, bank, bakery, hotel, plus homes and rooming houses for the workers, and a 30-room
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to service the logging operations that harvested softwood timber for building lumber and
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and established Port-Menier along the waterfront with a 1,000 metre (1000 yard)
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for the manufacture of paper products. The community was centred on a new
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business designed to take advantage of the abundant supply of
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Port-Menier can be reached via a ferry that runs between
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Index

Port-Menier

Anticosti Island
Quebec
L'Île-d'Anticosti municipality
French
Henri Menier
Sept-Îles
Havre-Saint-Pierre
Saint Lawrence River
Port-Menier Airport

Anticosti Island
Louis Jolliet
seignory
Bay Sainte-Claire
Ellis Bay
wharf
sawmill
Wood pulp
cannery
fish
lobsters
Roman Catholic
Scandinavian
French Canadians
Quebec City
Gaspé
coal
Sydney

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