Natashquan is a municipality located on the north shore of Jacques Cartier Strait, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the Côte-Nord region, Minganie RCM, Quebec, Canada.

The hamlet of Pointe-Parent, once also known as Pointe-du-Poste or Village-du-Poste, name Matshiteu by the Innu, which means “the point of land”, is located near the Natashkuan Indian reserve, in the municipality of Natashquan.

[2][9] The same year, 1859, the Flora, a three-masted ship 126 feet long, weighing 43 tons, built in Quebec by Narcisse Rosa,[10] ran aground on the banks of Natashquan, it was so silted up that it was impossible to refloat it.

In September 1860, the American sailing ship Moses Taylor, weighing 6,000 tons, loaded with wood, arriving from Liverpool was shipwreck in Natashquan while heading towards Quebec.

[16][1] Located along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northwest of the Little Natashquan River,[2] classified in 2006, the Galets historic site is a place formerly devoted to fishing activities.

[17] Red and white, clinging to their rocky bases, the 12 remaining Natashquan Pebbles bear witness to a past of abundant fishing for cod, salmon, herring and even seal hunting in the spring.“Les Galets is our Eiffel Tower!

[18] Bernard Landry is the initiator of the village collective whit the collaboration of 217 people dedicated a book: «Laissez-nous vous raconter», a volume of more than 1,000 pages, published by the Historical Society of the North Shore, April 2023.

Property of Transport Canada, the port of Natashquan is used by the cargo ship M/V Bella Desgagnés, a boat of the company Nordik Express,[22][23] for the weekly supply of general merchandise to the local population and by a fishing fleet during the season, in Anticosti Island, Côte-Nord and Bas-St-Laurent regions.

The main ports of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the Côte-Nord shore are: Blanc-Sablon, Harrington Harbor, Natashquan, Havre-Saint-Pierre, Mingan, Port-Menier (Anticosti Island), Cap-aux-Meules (Îles-de-la-Madeleine).