Biggest Constructions Site in Canada, Photograph by: Rapide Blanc – Romaine River
The Montreal Gazette, By William Marsden, Postmedia News April 15, 2011
Nicolas Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere photographed the river’s magnificence — its raging waters, its hurtling falls, its woodland caribou, black bears, moose, salmon and trout, its spectacular mountain vistas and rocky cliffs, and dense forested valleys — capturing the river’s last moments before the machines moved in. Their film, Chercher le courant, will be archived as a record of a lost world.
On May 13, 2009, about eight months after the paddlers completed their trip, Hydro-Quebec unleashed the bulldozers for what will become the biggest construction site in Canada. Continue reading