Canada
Val-Jalbert Ghost Town
A seventy-metre waterfall thunders over a mill village stopped in 1927 and carefully woken again.
The trolley climbs past company houses whose paint peels at the exact pitch of memory. Above the rooftops, the Ouiatchouan falls white and enormous.
Val-Jalbert preserves a pulp-mill company town abandoned when the mill closed, its convent, store and houses now interpreted rather than left to rot. A cable car rides beside the falls that powered everything. The mill restaurant serves Lac-Saint-Jean's emblems, tourtière and gourgane soup, beside the illuminated water.
Family
The trolley, cable car and costumed interpretation turn industrial history into a children's day.
Couple
Stay into the evening for the illuminated falls above the quiet village.
- Val-Jalbert preserves a complete 1920s mill town beneath its seventy-metre falls.
- The cable car rides beside the water that once powered the mill.
- Lac-Saint-Jean's tourtière and gourgane soup are served inside the village.
The mill restaurant serves the region's celebrated tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean and gourgane-bean soup.
Fresh-blueberry desserts arrive the moment the bleuetières ripen.
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