Cap Éternité
The name of the cape was made official on December 5, 1968. To the west of the bay, the Éternité River gave its name to the municipality of Rivière-Éternité.
Its impressive rock mass and steep cliffs make it a major tourist attraction site in the Saguenay Fjord National Park. Cape Eternity inspired painters, poets and writers, including Charles Gill (1871–1918) and William Chapman (1850–1917).
Notes and references
- ^ Toponymy: Cap Éternité
- ^ Charles Gill,Le Cap Éternité, posthumous edition, 1919, Song IX:
Dizzying pediment of which a world is the temple,
It’s eternity that this course makes you think:
Let the hour go past him
Silently, oh my soul, and contemplate. - ^ Cap Éternité, Commission de toponymie du Québec; William Chapman in 1916:
Let us suppose that the end of the centuries had come,
That all was engulfed under a frantic breath
That he remained standing in the dreary expanse
Only a colossus of stone at the edge of the Saguenay.
