Charlevoix

摘要

LA MALBAIE, QUEBEC - When French explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed down the St. Lawrence River on his way to founding Quebec City in 1608, he stopped overnight in a small bay 61 miles northeast of his final destination. When the tide dropped that night and grounded his ship, he complained bitterly: "Oh, the bad bay." The name stuck, and today the charming little bay in Quebec's Charlevoix region still carries Champlain's French description - "La Malbaie" - but it's definitely not "mal" or bad, at all. If anything, the bay is emblematic of the incredible beauty of Charlevoix - the 3,700-square-mile area in the Canadian Shield that was named a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.