Le Lac-des-Sables
The place
Le Lac-des-Sables in the Laurentians, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts/Saint-Adolphe area (Southern Laurentians, Québec, Canada), at 506 m elevation, on the Laurentian plateau. Continuous Québec Laurentians cluster (batches 234-355). Lakeside shelter at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (resort town + Village vacances Villa Bellevue, held Anglo-Italian prisoners 1940-46 WW2, 300 deported fascists, Rocca, Mussolini + Chagall Village Fournier painter, 1985 fresco + Simard-Beaudry Alpine skiing south of Mont Éléphant, 1940s), an area of maple-beech Laurentian forest + Castor canadensis (Canada's emblematic beaver) + Château Sainte-Agathe heritage hotel, Villa Vacances 1899, tuberculosis sanatorium, foundations of the Laurentians as a fashionable destination for wealthy Montrealers in the 1920s.
The setting
Laurentians Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts/Saint-Adolphe Southern Québec Canada 506 m Laurentian plateau, continuous cluster batches 234-355, lakeside shelter + Village vacances Villa Bellevue Anglo-Italian prisoners 1940-46 300 deported fascists Rocca Mussolini + Chagall Fournier 1985 fresco + Alpine skiing south of Mont Éléphant 1940s, maple-beech forest + Castor canadensis + Château Sainte-Agathe Villa Vacances 1899 tuberculosis sanatorium Laurentians fashionable 1920s wealthy Montreal.
