2023-07-15 00:19:31
On the North Shore, the community of Pessamit is launching a pilot tourism project, Tourisme Pessamit, and the band council wishes to promote its history and culture.
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Tour guide Annuk St-Onges launches a canoe near the Pessamit tourist information booth, which has been open since Monday. She welcomes the curiosity of visitors.
“They asked a lot of questions. They were interested. What’s fun is that we are able to answer their questions as well, and to explain, to teach them a few words in Innu, because we are losing our language like Quebecers.” she said.
The Innu is one of five guides trained for six months at Collège Mérici for the Tourisme Pessamit project, which aims to promote the history of the community.
Canoe rental is one of the activities offered in the Pessamit Tourism pilot project; there is also an autonomous historical and cultural discovery circuit, a lively traditional site, as well as guided tours.
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“We went to Nitassinan, we went to the forest, we lived what our ancestors lived, our grandparents lived. I say hats off to my culture, because they were brave, to row against the current, to leave from here to Pessamit, to go to Manic 5, I say hats off, they are a very brave and strong people “said Annuk St-Onge.
The rain does not stop the tour guides. “We will still do the circuit inside the community center. Of course, we don’t have the chance to show people the St. Lawrence River, the church, the cemetery, the whole historic square of Pessamit.
We still do not offer the possibility of tasting Labrador tea, bannock with blueberry jam,” said the coordinator of the Pessamit Tourism pilot project, Alexandra Kanapé.
The Vice-Chief of the Innu Council of Pessamit recognizes that there is a demand for Aboriginal tourism, but also sees this new offer as a way to improve understanding between nations.
“With our tourist guides, we are able to offer tourists, those who want to, to come and see us, to come and sit with us, to have tea with us, to understand why, when we pass messages at the level of territorial protection, to understand why, when we send messages at the level of territorial protection, we try to protect the minimum of what we have, of what we currently have left, “added the vice -Chief of the Innu Council of Pessamit, Jérôme Bacon St-Onge.
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Located next to the Takutaut station in Pessamit, on route 138, the tourist information kiosk is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until mid-October.
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