Isle-aux-Grues (French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.
Geography The Isle-aux-Grues is measuring about 7 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide. However, its dimensions increase to by , if including the flats which connect it to Île aux Oies. It is one of the twenty-one islands which make up the Isle-aux-Grues archipelago.
Transportation The island has an airstrip which is the only access to the island during the winter. Isle-aux-Grues is also served by a ferry during the summer.
Education Children from Isle-aux-Grues attend school in Montmagny, Quebec, travelling by plane each day.
Person connected to the island The Québecois painter Jean-Paul Riopelle died on the island on 12 March 2002.
May 2010 plane crash On May 19, 2010 at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, a Cessna 172 airplane carrying four people crashed on Isle-aux-Grues, killing three people initially. The fourth later died in hospital.
Toponymy The toponym "Île aux Grues" was made official on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "Île aux Grues"
References
External links Tourism website