Tursujuq National Park project

On the eastern coast of Hudson Bay not far from the Inuit community of Umiujaq, this park project covers a phenomenal 26,910 square kilometres and includes many exceptional attractions.

The Lake Guillaume-Delisle, for example, with its brackish tidal waters is a summer playground for migrating seal and beluga. Adjacent to the lake –sometimes called Richmond Gulf– are the unusual but well-known Hudsonian cuestas. For their part, the two circular basins of Lake à l’Eau-Claire in the eastern part of the park project territory are the result of a double meteoritic impact. With a surface area of 1,211 square kilometres, the two basins combine to form the second largest natural lake in Québec.

The Tursujuq National Park project is moreover located in the transition zone between boreal forest and tundra and possesses vestiges of human occupation dating back more than 3,000 years, including former trading posts from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Efforts to develop the park project have been underway since the 1990s, and involve the Inuit communities of Umiujaq and Kuujjuarapik, the Cree community of Whapmagoostui, the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs (sustainable development, environment and parks) and the Kativik Regional Government.

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Belugas