I’ve just returned from a 2-week journey along Quebec’s little-known (and even less visited) Lower North Shore. It is a largely roadless region of windswept boreal forest and tundra dotted with small fishing villages on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

The area’s more than two dozen communities are mostly English-speaking (with links to neighbouring Newfoundland and Labrador). French and Innu First Nation speakers also reside in the area. Many of the villages are on the cusp of extinction because of a dearth of economic opportunities and the lack of road connecting them to the outside world. 

I’ll be filing an assignment about my trip for Explore magazine to run in the coming months. And perhaps some other publications. 

Stay tuned.