Forillon National Park

Forillon National Park occupies the outer tip of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, where the Appalachians meet the Gulf and coast, and in 1970 it became Quebec’s first national park. Its 244 square kilometres include forests, marshes, dunes, cliffs, shoreline, and mountains, supporting seabirds, whales, seals, moose, black bear, foxes, lynx, beaver, and birds of prey. Long used by Mi'kmaq and Haudenosaunee peoples and later tied to timber and fishing communities, the area also carries the painful legacy of the expropriation of 225 families before the park’s creation, an injustice officially acknowledged in 2011. Historic fishing buildings and a World War II fortification add to its layered history.

Québec · Canada