Grosse Isle Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island in Quebec, Canada
About Grosse Isle
The 21-island Isle-aux-Grues archipelago is uninhabited, with the exception of one tiny community (Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues) on Île-aux-Grues itself. The region (Montmagny Regional County Municipality) is known for bird-watching, goose-hunting and cheeses. Grosse Isle (Grosse-Île, "big island") was notorious for its role as disembarkation point for "coffin ships" — the overcrowded, disease-ridden immigrant vessels in which the starving Irish fled the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s. The island had been established as an 1832 quarantine station for inbound sea traffic toQuebec Cityduring an earlier cholera epidemic, but was clearly unprepared for and overwhelmed by the mass influx of potato famine refugees in 1847. Medical care was primitive and housing and sanitation clearly inad
Top Attractions in Grosse Isle
Explore the best things to see and do in Grosse Isle:
- ★Anna V. Roy
- ★Bertrand Vézina
- ★Grosse-Île National Historic Site
- ★Lisette Vézina Painchaud
- ★Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Sculpture Biennale
Where to Eat in Grosse Isle
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Café aux Quatre Vents
- 🍴Manoir des Érables
Where to Stay in Grosse Isle
- 🏨Auberge Chez Octave
- 🏨Auberge des Dunes
- 🏨Days Inn
- 🏨EconoLodge
- 🏨Hôtel Centre-Ville
- 🏨Hôtel L’Oiselière Montmagny
Grosse Isle Travel Guide Sections
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