Cap-à-l'Aigle

By visiting the Gardens of Les Quatre Vents you support the mission of the Centre Écologique de Port-au-Saumon to raise awareness and educate young people and the general population in natural sciences and understanding the environment "from the starfish to the shooting star".

[5] Thanks to journalist Denis Gauthier and Mayor Bruno Simard, the "lilac garden" of Cap-à-l'Aigle was created in 1997 and the development work began in 2002.

To give a leverage to this horticultural complex Konrad Kircher, a horticulturist of German origin, has donated a rare collection of more than 1,000 lilacs to this non-profit organization.

There is also the Pavillon Duchesne, a café-terrace "Le Lilas Café" overlooking the river, a souvenir shop and the barn where artisans present their works.

The architectural heritage of Saint-Raphaël Street includes buildings of great historical value, such as the Bherer barn with its thatched roof and the St. Peter-on-the-Rock Anglican Church.

The village dominates the Estuary of St. Lawrence River, being located at the top of a long cliff, allowing to admire the panorama fluvial whose mountainous coast Pointe-au-Pic, which constitutes the western sector from La Malbaie.

Every weekend before Labor Day, sailing events are held in Quebec including the Triangle Race, the Crescent-Price Cup and the Edmond Desgagnés Challenge.

In the summer of 2014, rockfill work on the Petit Quai de Cap-à-l'Aigle aimed to preserve the structure of the wharf, but condemned it for the boarding of ships.

Located just five kilometers upstream on the river, Pointe-au-Pic wharf offers better deep-water mooring characteristics for cruise ships and merchant vessels.

In 2013, the federal government transferred its rights to the Charlevoix Transportation Infrastructure Management Corporation (SOGIT), which owns the Cap-à-l'Aigle and Pointe-au-Pic docks.

This could be an editing error, since Samuel de Champlain's estimate of the distance between the current Port-aux-Quilles (now a sector of the municipality of Saint-Siméon (Charlevoix-Est)) and the cape Salmon is rigorously exact.

In this respect, in 1993, Louis Pelletier raises the hypothesis that this course, mentioned by Samuel de Champlain, while not corresponding to the course of the current Eagle, can not be precisely located.

By popular usage, this toponymic designation was probably derived from the appellations of the Cape to the Ancient Eagle or the current Gros Cap à l'Aigle.