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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Isle-aux-Grues

Isle-aux-Grues (French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.

Geography

The Isle-aux-Grues is measuring about 7 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide. However, its dimensions increase to 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) by 4 kilometres (2.5 mi), if including the flats which connect it to Île aux Oies. It is one of the twenty-one islands which make up the Isle-aux-Grues archipelago.

Transportation

The island has an airstrip which is the only access to the island during the winter. Isle-aux-Grues is also served by a ferry during the summer.

Education

Children from Isle-aux-Grues attend school in Montmagny, Quebec, travelling by plane each day.

Person connected to the island

May 2010 plane crash

On May 19, 2010 at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, a Cessna 172 airplane carrying four people crashed on Isle-aux-Grues, killing three people initially. The fourth later died in hospital.

Toponymy

The toponym "Île aux Grues" was made official on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

References

  1. ^ Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "Île aux Grues"
  2. ^ White, Marianne (20 May 2010). "Four killed in plane crash in Quebec". Montreal: Toronto Sun. QMI Agency. Retrieved 14 June 2014.