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Cruisin' Guzzisti
I was out last week in northern Quebec in the Cree Nation community of Ouje-Bougoumou, "The place where people gather", about 750 km north of Montreal.
This community was recently settled in 1992 by cree natives who were scattered across the territory and continuously displaced by mining and logging interests.
They created a quite progressive community which was recognized by the UN, caring for their elders and children.
Getting there was uneventful as is typical with the Norge. The roads are in good condition and the scenery was fantastic following the St-Maurice river, then up through Lac St-Jean, and the Ashuapmushuan wildlife reserve.
I didn't take that many road pictures because stopping entailed being immediately feasted upon by countless black flies. Honestly I swear you could hear them chew, and I think one of them burped!
Band council building
Church & park
Lac Opemiska
Looking to the east from Ouje
Guzzi country
Sun setting on the St-Maurice, this river was used by the lumberjacks to float the wood to the mills from the logging camps
Route 155 follows the shore of the St-Maurice
This community was recently settled in 1992 by cree natives who were scattered across the territory and continuously displaced by mining and logging interests.
They created a quite progressive community which was recognized by the UN, caring for their elders and children.
Getting there was uneventful as is typical with the Norge. The roads are in good condition and the scenery was fantastic following the St-Maurice river, then up through Lac St-Jean, and the Ashuapmushuan wildlife reserve.
I didn't take that many road pictures because stopping entailed being immediately feasted upon by countless black flies. Honestly I swear you could hear them chew, and I think one of them burped!
Band council building
Church & park
Lac Opemiska
Looking to the east from Ouje
Guzzi country
Sun setting on the St-Maurice, this river was used by the lumberjacks to float the wood to the mills from the logging camps
Route 155 follows the shore of the St-Maurice
