admin | June 11, 2010
Senior citizens are the backbone of our society. They have built up a wealth of knowledge and experience in their young days to pass on to the young generations. Now it is time for our elderly to play.
Becoming elderly and entering the ranks of senior citizens has advantages when it comes to travel vacations. Here [...]
admin | March 3, 2010
As with all coastal regions, the Magdalen Islands is suffering from the almost constant buffering of the wind and the waves from off the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Unlike most places though, the islands is mostly made of sand and compressed sandstone, of which neither is of much protection against the elements of nature.
There are [...]
admin | November 30, 2009
The aerial link between the regional airports in Mont-Joli and on the Magdalen Islands which had been interrupted in June 2009 may start up again this winter.
The aerial link that was created in October of 2008 was interrupted because there were insufficient numbers of passengers using the option. Exact Air needed at least five passengers per [...]
admin | November 25, 2009
Captain Wayne Dickson of Entry Island has received the medal of public-spiritedness at the National Assembly of Quebec, on Monday, November 9th, 2009, in regard to his actions during the tragedy of the Acadien II, on March 29, 2008.
The Islander Captain and his crew had taken part in rescuing the seal hunters during the shipwreck [...]
admin | November 24, 2009
On November 21, 2009, the survivors and the families of the four seal hunters, who were lost during the shipwreck of the Acadien II, in March of 2008, have petitioned for 2.7 million dollars from the Canadian Coast Guard and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, [in damages].
Their petition as been handed to the Federal Court and [...]
admin | October 30, 2009
Support for tourism development in Grosse-Île
Grosse-Île, Quebec, October 27, 2009 – The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of State for Canada Economic Development, today announced that the Council for Anglophone Magdalen Islanders has been awarded $133,540 in non-repayable funding under the Community Economic Diversification Initiative – Vitality to establish a tourism development plan for Grosse-Île.
Every summer, [...]
admin | October 25, 2009
At a press conference held on October 22, 2009, the representatives of the Regional Organization of Civil Security and the Health and Social Services Agency of the Gaspesia and the Magdalen Islands presented the actions taken to counter the feared H1N1 pandemic by giving general information on the important vaccine campaign which will be progressively [...]
