The cap Trinité is a rock wall in three plateaus of the Baie Éternité overhanging the Saguenay River, the

Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality Le Fjord-du-Saguenay (''The Fjord of the Saguenay iver') is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Saint-Honoré, which is also its most populous municipality. It is named for the f ...

, in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in

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. This natural elevation is located in

Saguenay Fjord National Park Saguenay Fjord National Park (french: parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay) is a provincial park located in Quebec, Canada. In the regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Charlevoix, Côte-Nord, and Bas-Saint-Laurent, the park is situated along the ...

. There is the

Statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay The statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay is a statue located on Cap Trinité, at the mouth of Baie Trinité, near the village of Rivière-Éternité, and the river Saguenay River, in Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the provinc ...

Toponymy

The

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writes about it: "The origin of the name would be linked to its particular form as described thus :" Cape Trinité was given its name because it is actually formed by three equal caps of size and elevation, the first of which also includes three caps arranged in echelon and forming like three superimposed stages".

Geography

History

Tourism

Cape Trinité is the main attraction of

In culture

Legend

According to a legend montagnais, the cape Trinité would be the result of the combat between Mayo, the first Montagnais, and of a bad

manitou Manitou (), akin to the Iroquois ''orenda'', is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. ''Aasha ...

. While he was paddling on the Saguenay, a creature appeared from the river to attack it. Mayo, responding only with his courage, took the creature by the tail and smashed it on the mountain. It was at the third stroke that the beast was crushed, which explains the three levels of the cape. Where the manitou hit the rock, no more vegetation grew.

Poetry

Louis-Honoré Fréchette wrote, in 1873, a poem titled ''Le cap Trinité''. Charles Gill was also inspired by the Saguenay capes. The song VIII^e of the collection "Le Cap Éternité followed des Étoiles filantes", entitled "Le Cap Trinité", begins as follows:

Photo gallery

Cap Trinite.png, Lucius O'Brien, ''Sunrise over the Saguenay'', 1880 File:Vue du Cap trinité près de la Statue.jpg, The Saguenay River and the

Cap Éternité Cap Éternité is a mountain in the municipality of Rivière-Éternité, the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec, Canada Canada is a country in North Am ...

seen from the first level of Cape Trinity near the

File:Statue de Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay 01.jpg, The

statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay The statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay is a statue located on Cap Trinité, at the mouth of Baie Trinité, near the village of Rivière-Éternité, and the river Saguenay River, in Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the provinc ...

File:Cap Trinite - riviere Saguenay 1933.jpg , Cap Trinité, around 1933 File:Cap Éternité et cap Trinité.jpg, Cap Éternité in the background, and the three levels of Cap Trinité in the foreground