DISCOVERED
"Hidden in plain sight, Anticosti Island is Canada’s best- kept wilderness getaway."
ADMITTEDLY, WATCHING THE brand-new Toyota 4Runner get loaded into a steel container, then hoisted onto a ship in the Quebec town of Havre-Saint- Pierre left me with an uneasy feeling. A larger port – several hundred kilometres west, in Montreal – has become notorious for people’s prized SUVs making their unexpected departure from Canada to unknown points overseas, making this scenario a troubling sight. Plus, having already enjoyed the 1,700 km drive from southern Ontario with the Toyota, I’d grown quite attached to the green truck. I needn’t have worried though. Several hours later in the village of Port-Menier, a deckhand unstrapped the truck and drove it out, good as new and ready for the rest of my adventure on Anticosti Island. Hidden in plain sight, Anticosti Island is Canada’s best-kept wilderness getaway. With an area of nearly 8,000 square kilometres, it’s 40 per cent larger than the entire province of Prince Edward Island, yet remarkably few Canadians have ever heard of Anticosti, let alone know its location in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It’s a shame that
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