La Cordée
The place
La Cordée in Gaspésie, Cap-Chat/Sainte-Anne-des-Monts sector (Parc national de la Gaspésie Chic-Chocs, Quebec, Canada), at 215 m altitude, northern Chic-Chocs Appalachian range. Continuous Quebec Gaspésie Chic-Chocs cluster (batches 250-380). SÉPAQ refuge (Chic-Chocs 700 km², 1937, sole home of the Rangifer tarandus caribou of the Gaspésie, 100 individuals in 2024, a critically threatened isolated population, the southernmost caribou population in the Appalachians + Mont Jacques-Cartier, 1268 m, the highest peak in the southern Appalachians in Canada + International Appalachian Trail IAT-SIA, 3,500 km USA-QC, completed in 1994 + heritage of the Mi'kmaq (Algonquian people, 60,000, Atlantic region, Mi'kmawi'simk language + Bay of Chaleur, Cartier 1534, discovered and named 24 July 1534 + Restigouche, historical maroon settlement + traditional Mi'kmaq Grand Council governance + Marshall Decision 1999, Supreme Court ruling on ancestral crab/lobster fishing rights, a landmark controversy).
The setting
Gaspésie Cap-Chat/Sainte-Anne-des-Monts PN Gaspésie Chic-Chocs QC Canada 215 m northern Chic-Chocs Appalachian range, continuous cluster batches 250-380, SÉPAQ refuge Chic-Chocs 700 km² 1937 sole Rangifer tarandus caribou Gaspésie 100 ind 2024 critically threatened southernmost Appalachian population + Mont Jacques-Cartier 1268 m highest peak southern Appalachians CA + IAT-SIA 3,500 km USA-QC 1994, Mi'kmaq Algonquian 60,000 Mi'kmawi'simk + Bay of Chaleur Cartier 1534 discovered 24 July + Restigouche + Grand Council + Marshall Decision 1999 crab/lobster ancestral rights.
