Forestville

Forestville is a town in the Cote-Nord area of Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River along Route 138, around 103 kilometers 64 mi southwest of Baie-Comeau. There is a vehicle and traveler ship benefit from Forestville to Rimouski, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence that is more than 50 kilometers 31 mi wide at this point. The city works the Forestville Airport.

Forestville is known for its chasing and angling: moose chasing season is mainstream and there are numerous lakes and waterways to angle in and also shorelines and outdoors spots for the mid year and crosscountry skiing in the winter. It is additionally host to the Boréal Loppet which is a crosscountry skiing race with fluctuating separations including 60 km. The territory was notable to the First Nations, while the principal European pioneers touched base in 1844 after the development of a sawmill by Edward Selvin, of Les Eboulements.

In 1849, the factory was sold to William Price. One of the directors of the Price Company was Grant William Forrest passed on November 15, 1878, after whom the new settlement was named. As composed by Surveyor P.H. Dumais in 1873, the little town, "with its house of prayer and its windmills", was initially spelled Forrest-Ville, yet the English form of his content demonstrated the spelling Forestville. Being at the mouth of the Sault aux Cochons River, the place was likewise on the other hand known as Sault-au-Cochon.