REGION HISTORY:

South of the St-Lawrence river and northeast of the Eastern Townships is the tourist region Chaudière-Appalaches. It is dominated by the Chaudière river, notorious for its ice jams and spring flooding. The Craig and Gosford Roads, opened in the early 1800s, allowed immigrants from Scotland and Ireland to homestead on land in this area. Thetford Mines, known for its asbestos, and "la Beauce" with rolling hills, maple bushes and snowmobile trails are also part of the region. "Beaucerons" speak French in amazingly fast spurts and exhibit a fiercely entrepreneurial spirit.

Chaudière-Appalaches also includes the shore of le fleuve St-Laurent south of Quebec City, where some of the first settlers farmed and built sawmills and grist mills.




Some excellent tourism information below...