Isle-aux-Grues ( French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the

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, in the municipality of

Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues is a parish municipality in Quebec, in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches. It is known for bird-watching, goose-hunting and cheeses. Demographics ...

, in the

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(MRC), in administrative region of

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

, in

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, in

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Geography

The Isle-aux-Grues is measuring about 7 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide. However, its dimensions increase to by , if including the flats which connect it to Île aux Oies. It is one of the twenty-one islands which make up the Isle-aux-Grues

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Transportation

The island has an

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which is the only access to the island during the winter. Isle-aux-Grues is also served by a ferry during the summer.

Education

Children from Isle-aux-Grues attend school in

Montmagny, Quebec Montmagny () is a city in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality within the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is the county seat and had a population, as of the Canada 2011 Census, of 11,491. The city is on the south shore of the Sain ...

, travelling by plane each day.

Person connected to the island

* The Québecois painter

Jean-Paul Riopelle Jean-Paul Riopelle, (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the ''Refus Global'', the 1948 manif ...

died on the island on 12 March 2002.

May 2010 plane crash

On May 19, 2010 at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, a

Cessna 172 The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is an American four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company.

airplane carrying four people crashed on Isle-aux-Grues, killing three people initially. The fourth later died in hospital.

Toponymy

The toponym "Île aux Grues" was made official on December 5, 1968 at the

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.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "Île aux Grues"
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References

External links

Tourism website
Landforms of Chaudière-Appalaches River islands of Quebec Islands of the Saint Lawrence River Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{ChaudièreAppalaches-geo-stub