A translation by Judith Turcotte The municipal authorities are responsible for the purification of wastewater and by extension, the discharges of untreated water directly into the St. Lawrence River and they are free to do what they want. The people are preoccupied by the quality of the water entering their homes but are indifferent to … Lire plus
A translation by Judith Turcotte The Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River form a whole that depends on the actions, good and bad, of two countries. Since 1909, Canada and the United States have signed a Boundary Waters Treaty in order to resolve the disputes on the subject of the utilization of the waters … Lire plus
A translation by Judith Turcotte The construction of the seaway (at the end of the fifties) was considered as an important engineering achievement. At its inauguration, Raymond Charette, a journalist at Radio Canada declared: “June 26, 1959, is now a milestone in Canada’s history of ommunications and intercontinental and transoceanic connections.” During the inauguration, the … Lire plus
A translation by Judith Turcotte The St. Lawrence River connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. It is 1197 km long and its estuary is the earth’s largest with a width of 48 km and a length of 370 km. The waters of this great river are our responsibility; however, we are not the only ones to … Lire plus
A translation by Judith Turcotte The waters of the St. Lawrence River hide an aquatic life which evolves in a piecemeal fashion. All the changes, especially those initiated by humans, can have unexpected consequences on the dynamics between the different species. Cod is a good example. There exist two distinct populations of cod in the … Lire plus
A translation by Judith Turcotte More than 80% of the population of Québec live on the shores of the St. Lawrence and its tributaries. They have settled there to travel, to drink its water, to exploit its riches, to enjoy themselves, to cool off and to use as a sewer and waste site. It is … Lire plus
My family comes from Notre-Dame-de-Pierreville, a small municipality located on the shores of Lac Saint Pierre. I was the eldest of a family of six and my mother, Odette, would ship me off to my grandparents’ farm whenever a new sibling was born. I still have fond memories of the farm except for the picking … Lire plus
At the beginning of the year, I was intrigued by a headline: Invasion of a crayfish species worries biologists. What are they worried about? Freshwater crayfish are small, not dangerous and they are good to eat. I have known since my early years that crayfish can be used as bait. I also knew that they … Lire plus
Human beings around the world must deal with immigration and the St. Lawrence wildlife is no different. There are more than a hundred species of fish and close to 2000 marine invertebrates that live in the river. To make things worse, there are no borders on the St. Lawrence. On a regular basis, we learn … Lire plus
Montreal is not the only municipality to have used the St. Lawrence as a garbage dump. Old dumps can be found all along the river. One of my readers commented on one of my blogs. “I spent part of my childhood between Varennes and Vercheres; there was no garbage collection in those days. The river … Lire plus