Statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay

[1] The statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay was sculpted in honor of Sainte-Vierge [fr] after the misadventures of "Charles-Napoléon Robitaille", a traveling salesman who, to go to Saguenay, absolutely had to take the rivers.

One winter day when he was heading towards Lac Saint-Jean, the ice broke under his feet and he fell into the water; he struggled but in vain.

At the Havre de Québec, we load the Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay statue on board the Union steamer from the company St-Laurent, a boat that provides service between Quebec and Chicoutimi.

The steep wall of Cape Trinity making it impossible to dock a boat as imposing as the steamer Union, we leave the statue at L’Anse-Saint-Jean.

The statue is therefore separated into fourteen pieces, previously assembled by Louis Jobin using wooden dowels, to manage to hoist it.