What are the main parts of a hydropower facility? How does it work? You’ll find out when you visit Jean-Lesage generating station and one of the world’s largest hollow-joint gravity dams! You’ll see a 400-tonne rotor spinning over your head and feel the ...
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The Musée du Fjord opens the door to the marine world of the Saguenay Fjord. It is both a laboratory, a place of learning and wonder where history and science coexist. Through the windows of its aquarium or the portholes of its multimedia vessel, the ...
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A pioneering Eastern Townships winery, Le Cep d'Argent offers an innovative, one-of-a-kind ''champagne'' experience. This unique Québec enterprise. Overlooking Lake Magog, is planted with 60.000 vines on 114 acres of land and is the outcome of three decades ...
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The Festival de l'Oie des Neiges (Snow Goose Festival) is a family and country event that highlights the return of thousands of great snow geese and features the splendour of autumn in the Côte-de-Beaupré. The Festival de l’Oie des Neiges in Saint-Joachim ...
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Calling everyone who loves nature: See where almost half the energy comes from: the Robert-Bourassa generating facility. Climb aboard a bus to discover the sheer immensity of Hydro-Québec’s structures, look up at a dam as tall as a 53-storey building ...
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At the Bagotville Air Defence Museum in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, military aviation is marked by exceptional heroes who lived extraordinary adventures.
- The "Masters of the Sky" exhibition recounts the glory and misfortunes of Canadian aviators ...
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Visit Îles-de-la-Madeleine generating station, the largest diesel-powered thermal generating station in Québec. The Îles-de-la-Madeleine have always relied on fuel oil to meet their energy needs, and this power plant supplies electricity to a population ...
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The Friends of the Lac-Saint-François National Wildlife Area welcomes you to a unique site in the municipality of the Township of Dundee, it is a privileged place to become familiar with wetlands through the discovery of its marshes and swamps. In a completely ...
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Rivière-des-Prairies generating station has stood proudly between the Montréal and Laval shores since the 1930s. Come learn about this run-of-river facility and the introduction of electricity in the Montréal region. Then, follow your guide to the turbine ...
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Discover the two historic sites that make up La Cité de l’Or, located in Val-d’Or in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue. The Old Lamaque gold mine is an interpretation centre. Become a miner for a day and enjoy a unique experience in a real mine as you go 91 metres ...
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