Refuge du Martin-Pêcheur
The place
Refuge du Martin-Pêcheur in Chaudière-Appalaches, Saint-Georges/Beauceville sector (Beauce, Québec, Canada), at 414 m altitude, Appalachian plateau. Continuous Québec Chaudière-Appalaches cluster (batches 234-346). SÉPAQ shelter or outfitter's lodge ("Martin-Pêcheur" — Megaceryle alcyon, the belted kingfisher, a riverine, fish-diving, hook-billed bird symbolic of Chaudière-Appalaches nature), area with mixed Beauce maple-birch forest (Acer saccharum, sugar maple, Canada's emblematic tree, producing 71% of world syrup, 175 M kg/year) and the Chaudière River (250 km through Beauce, tributary of the Saint-Lawrence; site of the Lac-Mégantic disaster of 6 July 2013, 47 dead, DOT-111 oil train derailment in the town centre), heritage of the Abenaki (Algonquian people, "Wolinak," 4,000 people, Odanak-Wôlinak Saint-François reserves + scattered Kamouraska remnants).
The setting
Chaudière-Appalaches Saint-Georges/Beauceville Beauce Québec Canada 414 m Appalachian plateau, continuous cluster batches 234-346, SÉPAQ/outfitter Martin-Pêcheur Megaceryle alcyon belted kingfisher Chaudière-Appalaches, maple-birch forest Beauce Acer saccharum Canada's emblem syrup 71% world 175 M kg/year, Chaudière 250 km tributary St-Lawrence + Lac-Mégantic 6 July 2013 47 dead DOT-111 oil, Abenaki Wolinak 4,000 Odanak-Wôlinak St-François/Kamouraska.
