During this year 2021, our photographers were in the field and captured some significant moments. Stories, big and small, that make life what it is. At the end of the year, we present you some memorable images. Today, look at rurality.
Posted on December 24, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, THE PRESS
January Marilyn Ouellet, from the Ferme du Coq à l’âne, in Bury, in the Eastern Townships, has decided to offer only her organic baskets in winter and to abandon farming in the fields in summer. The company has four greenhouses heated with biomass, where it grows about twenty varieties of vegetables on the ground.
PHOTO FRANÇOIS ROY, THE PRESS
March Another point of view from Percé Rock, in Gaspésie, when the region is also experiencing a housing crisis.
HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT PHOTO, THE PRESS
April Exploration of the new Lac et Chute Windigo sector of the Montagne du Diable regional park, in the Laurentians
HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT PHOTO, THE PRESS
May Field of fir trees from the Ideal Plantations in Ham-Nord, in the Center-du-Quebec region
PHOTO EDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, THE PRESS
June Moment of relief for Osvaldo Bejar Valdez after he received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The agricultural worker is hired by the Onésime Pouliot farm on Île d’Orléans.
PHOTO DAVID BOILY, THE PRESS
June Houses facing the sea in Port-Menier, the only village on Anticosti Island
PHOTO DAVID BOILY, THE PRESS
June Typical scene of Anticosti Island, where the fauna wanders without fear of tourists, like this curious fox.
PHOTO DAVID BOILY, THE PRESS
July Nautical excursion to the Biophare of Sorel-Tracy, where a great blue heron takes flight, in all its splendor.
PHOTO EDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, THE PRESS
August Chef Martin Picard looks at Raphaël’s bicycle, son of painter Marc Séguin, at Île aux Oies, the former haunt of painter Jean Paul Riopelle, in the middle of the St. Lawrence River.
HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT PHOTO, THE PRESS
September Visit the new Beside Habitat chalets in Chertsey, in Lanaudière, when the fall colors are spectacular.
PHOTO FRANÇOIS ROY, THE PRESS
September Vacationers take advantage of evenings that are still warm enough to build a fire on the beach in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
PHOTO SARAH MONGEAU-BIRKETT, THE PRESS
October Nature is beautiful in Baie-Saint-Paul, in Charlevoix, and we even lose this little white house among the colors. The photo was taken from the new Club Med in the area.