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Cohort 1
Aanischaaukamikw Cree Culture Institute
Region: Eeyou Istchee
The Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute is the regional cultural institution of Eeyou Istchee (museum, library, educational center and performing arts center). The project aims to develop the organization, their potential to attract more visitors and further develop their product in order to reach other markets.
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Attitude nordique plein air
Region: Côte-Nord
Attitude nordique offers various packages allowing its clientele to taste and appreciate the products specific to the region during outdoor activities such as sea kayaking, "paddleboarding" and zipline. The project consists of fitting out a chalet with sanitary block and drinking water, adding climbing as a new 4-season activity, adding a floating dock, renovating the trails and developing winter accommodation and kayaking.
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Broadback Outfitting
Region: Eeyou Istchee
The Broadback outfitting wishes to improve the experience at its fishing camp in preparation for the inauguration of the future Assinica National Park, and to highlight emerging Aboriginal tourism. The opportunities and benefits that create the robustness and prosperity of the Broadback Fishing Camp lie at the intersection of emerging Indigenous tourism, linked to the future Assinica National Park and other tourism realities in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region.
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Caniapiscau Réservoir Expéditions
Region: Côte-Nord
The Caniapiscau Reservoir is the largest body of water in Quebec. It is virtually an unexplored body of water offering a great potential for catching huge Lake trout, landlocked salmon and/or northern pike. Each year more and more tourists make there way all the way up the trans taiga road to the end of the road at km 666 which takes you to one of the most remote and secluded areas in North America and ends at a float plane base at Lac Pau. The project aims at introducing a new fishing adventure package where anglers could choose between one of two packages offered.
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Chibougamau Adventure
Region: Baie-James
Chibougamau Aventure is a package and guides service company specializing in “snowbike” and off-piste snowmobiling. It also offers mountain bike rental in summer. Its project aims to provide tourists with atypical accommodation (domes) and the rental of jet skis.
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Cree Nation of Chisasibi
Region: Eeyou Istchee
The project consists of organizing a visit to Chisasibi, in particular by going to meet the community and discovering the Cultural and Heritage Center. Visitors can take the time to interact with locals and artisans, tour the old village of Fort George, and stop at the bay.
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Damville Outfitting
Region: Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
The Pourvoirie Damville project targets an international clientele looking for travel, discovery, immersion and experiences, all in a setting offering a high standard of quality. Services will focus on wilderness life and winter activities will be added to the tourist offer to accommodate visitors on an annual basis.
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Etua’s Arctic Adventures
Region: Nunavik
The project aims at offering Arctic char and salmon fishing experiences, and to revive ecotourism and adventure tours to bring Canadian and international tourism back to Nunavik: a combination of kayak and boat trips in Ungava Bay to visit unique places such as Akpotek Island, and Arctic wildlife viewing. Social media will be used for promotional purposes to promote the project.
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Les gérances de la horde sauvage
Region: Côte-Nord
Les gérances de la horde sauvage offers 5-day European fishing trips with release for trout (red or gray) and pike landlocked salmon, on sites accessible only by seaplane. The project aims to improve and isolate the reception camps for snowmobilers and ice fishermen, as well as to rebuild new camps where others burned down more than 20 years ago, which made cease exploitation of this sector, known for trophy landlocked salmon fishing.
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Mushuau-nipi Corporation
Region: Côte-Nord
The Mushuau-nipi Corporation is aimed at both tourists and locals seeking authenticity in the practical teaching of their culture and language. Such an immersive stay with a First Nation of North America, in the millennial tradition of a nomadic camp in the middle of the country, has no equivalent in this corner of the world. The project aims to put in place the optimal conditions for the Corporation to further deploy its mission and to reach a stage of commercialization that maximizes the customer experience as well as the management and profitability of the company.
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Nabisipi Uenapeu Outfitting
Region: Côte-Nord
The Nabisipi Uenapeu outfitter, located in an ancestral Innu territory, offers fly fishing trips for Atlantic salmon. The project aims to make the outfitter eco-responsible thanks to its electrification, to build accommodation for recreotourism and to increase the reception capacity of the outfitter.
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Nibiischii Corporation
Region: Eeyou Istchee
Nibiischii ensures the sound management and responsible development of the Lacs Albanel-Mistassini-et-Waconichi wildlife reserve, a wildlife reserve dedicated to the conservation, enhancement and use of wildlife as well as to the practice of recreational activities. The objective of the project is to diversify the offer by developing winter products and new 4-season accommodation (Creetopias, floating cabins, etc.). Currently, Nibiischii only operates between June and September and mainly for a clientele of fishermen.
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Nunawild
Region: Nunavik
Nunawild aims at developing a world-class ecotourism infrastructure for northern travel fans and wildlife photographers. The project includes boat trips on the Koksoak River, historical tours of selected sites using a comfortable and safe tour boat, and eco-cultural Inuit tours by dog sled.
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Wedge Hills Lodge
Region: Nunavik
Wedge Hills Lodge offers unique and premium Arctic travel packages. The project aims to accommodate safarists and wildlife photographers, and to develop adventure activities (fatbike, bicycle fishing, packrafting), a nature camp and an Arctic Safari Eco-Lodge.
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Wiinipaakw Tours Solidarity Cooperative
Region: Eeyou Istchee
The Cooperative currently offers ecotourism cruises where tourists are invited to explore Rupert Bay and its islands in the company of trained Cree staff. The project aims at offering one-day or 2-3 night stays in James Bay, with camping accommodations on the islands.
Cohort 2
Association de protection de la Rivière-St-Jean
Region: Côte-Nord
The Haute-St-Jean Outfitter invites you to live an Atlantic salmon fishing experience in an atmosphere of relaxation and rejuvenation. Our project is divided into four parts: developing a snowmobile relay, finalizing the solar energy installations, building a new service site in the Étang sector, obtaining the bear hunting permit, maintaining and developing services responding to medium and high-end markets, as well as diversifying the activities offered by the outfitter.
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Athéna Aventure
Region: Côte-Nord
Located 15 km from Sept-Îles on the beautiful beaches of the St. Lawrence River, not far from the mythical Moisie River (Mishtashipu), Athéna Aventure wishes to make known the Innu culture from several angles and facets still unknown: animal taxidermist collection, accommodation in cabins and micro-cabins, therapeutic spa experiences, culinary experiences, fly fishing packages, sea excursions, lobster fishing, marine animal observation, snowmobile excursions beyond the 50th parallel, cultural immersion packages Innu.
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Auberge Nature
Region: Côte-Nord
The project consists in setting up a nature inn that will allow customers to immerse themselves in a true North Coast experience. It has four divisions: a festive inn, an inn offering nature activities at sea and in the forest, a diving station to train customers in this activity sector, a possibility to rent equipment or to be guided, as well as a hostel associated with a travel agency. Initially, the project aims to consolide the activities already operated by the three partners: to offer gin and its derivative products from the Vent-du-Nord distillery, to provide a place to stay during the stay of visitors in the region and to train more divers and to sell more diving related products.
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Aventures Nitassinan
Region: Côte-Nord
Aventures Nitassinan will offer sustainable and responsible tourism products combining Innu culture and adventure and nature tourism on the Nitassinan of Nutashkuan. Sharing the Innu culture will be at the center of the service offer; it will be the WOW of the customer experience. The adventures will be guided and will include experiential accommodation.
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Baie-Johan-Beets Outfitting
Region: Côte-Nord
Expand and diversify the ecotourism offer around the Château and the village of Baie-Johan-Beetz by developing various circuits in Minganie, inland and on the St. Lawrence River, in partnership with communities and local stakeholders or regional. Our project is in line with the principles of sustainable tourism and also includes the development of regional gastronomy, unusual accommodation and traditional indigenous activities.
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Chalets Didoche
Region: Côte-Nord
The Chalets Didoche is a brand-new ecological accommodation site located in the heart of nature, by the sea, with top-of-the-range and energy-autonomous accommodation units. Our project aims to develop various recreational and eco-responsible activities that go directly with our ecological and 100% autonomous accommodation. We aim to develop strategic partnerships, improve our performance and the efficiency of our homes as well as evaluate business opportunities with the current reception building.
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Diana Lake Lodge Outfitting
Region: Nunavik
Outfitter Diana Lake Lodge aims to redevelop and reopen the former Diana Lake Lodge, nestled in the wilderness of Nunavik and bordered by Hudson Bay to the west, Ungava Bay to the north and Labrador to the east. Once fully renovated, the lodge will offer sport fishing, ecotourism, adventure tours, wildlife viewing and photography, all with comfortable accommodation.
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Expéditions Pirsuq
Region: Côte-Nord
Pirsuq Expeditions is an outdoor and adventure company offering sea excursions with observation of marine mammals and aquatic birds as well as a guide service for off-trail snowmobiling. The project consists of building a docking station to improve the service offer by adding survival courses in an isolated environment, initiation to winter camping, ice fishing, as well as a reception area for off road snowmobilers. In addition, the company intends to acquire a sailboat to offer initiation to sailing and accommodation on the installation. We also plan to offer the excursion service by inflatable to discover the impactites on René-Levasseur Island.
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Festival du conte et de la légende de l’Innucadie
Region: Côte-Nord
The Innucadie Trail is a historic circulation space between Nutashkuan and Natashquan. It will take the form of a poetic stroll presenting works by our famous local artists: the poets Joséphine Bacon and Gilles Vigneault. This project aims to promote the inter-knowledge of our peoples and constitutes a rare and original example of multicultural integration contributing to a better understanding of our differences. It is a symbol of reconciliation between peoples.
“A space where the silence of nature could be heard, a place of reflection and meditation in a natural sound environment.” – Gilles Vigneault
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Lac Goéland Outfitting
Region: Eeyou Istchee
The project is called “Outpost camp”. The aim is to offer, from the outfitter's main site, accessible by seaplane, a unique experience of isolation in the forest, where customers eager for extraordinary wildlife experiences and exceptional fishing will be accompanied by pilot guides, which will offer a unique experience. Clients will stay in comfortable base camps that will give them an insight into the ancestral lifestyle of Aboriginal peoples. A river exploration component is also in the expansion plans. The addition of different packages will diversify the offer and make available a brand-new product in the southwestern region of Eeyou Istchee Baie-James.
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Noryak Aventures
Region: Côte-Nord
Noryak Aventures offers packages from 1 to 8 days, punctuated with original dishes with local flavor, in exceptional territories of the North Shore. In river descent or sea kayaking, Noryak Aventures puts quality and authenticity at the heart of its approach. The project will make it possible to consolidate certain strategic products, to develop new adventure products outside the summer season, and to evaluate the implementation of infrastructures on an operation site for storage, cooking, accommodation and hospitality.
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Ungava Polar Eco-tours
Region: Nunavik
Ungava Polar Eco-tours offers trips to explore the magnificent Ungava Bay territory. With its main camp located in the Tasiujaq islands, home of the world’s greatest tides, our clients will get the opportunity to witness the breathtaking tidal currents, polar bears, Muskox, Caribou, seals, birds and more. With modern and safe accommodation and with experienced guides, our clients can relax and take in the beauty that Nunavik has to offer. Although our main focus is to showcase the Tasiujaq Islands, we offer catered tours to our clients’ requests, including boating tours in the Ungava Bay.
Cohort 3
Anticosti Ecotours
Region: North Shore (Anticosti)
The project consists of offering eco-responsible interpretation activities of the marine environment for non-divers on Anticosti Island (tours and visits of the coastline, observation of marine fauna) as well as land-based visits of the island's points of interest. Eventually, the development of winter activities will be studied. The company already has all the necessary qualifications and insurance to offer these new services.
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Attitude Nordique
Region: North Shore
The business is in the process of meeting supply and demand by expanding its parking lot to ensure the safety of customers. The project also aims to add a cultural component in collaboration with the Innu community in order to offer events with Aboriginal flavours, traditional activities, and a sharing of Aboriginal knowledge. The addition of a package of guided fishing tours, a "lunch shore", and lodging in a prospector or Shaputuan tent is also envisaged, not to mention the development of trails and facilities for the via ferrata and zip lines at Baie du Garde-feu.
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Chibougamau Aventure
Region: Baie-James
The project aims to diversify and increase the current offer by developing a new axis of specialized services, namely group travel. Chibougamau Aventure aims to develop a new vacation center that will allow clients to discover the region through a multitude of activities specific to the local culture, in terms of the supervision of visitors, the equipment made available to them, and the vacation site that will serve as the main landmark during their stay. Visitor management in a developing region is crucial to the sustainable growth of today's tourism industry.
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Green Point Outfitters
Region: North Shore
Where adventure and relaxation meet in the great outdoors, Green Point Outfitter, located on the St. Paul’s River on the Lower North Shore, offers an adventure for everyone. The project aims to diversify the summer and fall service offer from Atlantic Salmon fishing packages to trout, saltwater fishing and whale watching tours. In the wintertime, the projects consists in offering snowmobile tours, cozy cabin rentals and great local dishes. This project will make the necessary upgrades as well as investments in new clean technologies possible to ensure a high quality and eco-friendly standard for the guests.
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Johnny and Billy Cain Outfitters
Region: Nunavik
The project aims at extending the existing season by six weeks with the creation of a new ecotourism and adventure experience on the Leaf River, featuring kayaking and the renovation of two remote camps. The Leaf River and its estuary offer some of the most diverse fishing in Quebec (sea trout, Arctic char and Atlantic salmon), as well as the opportunity to observe numerous marine animals, such as beluga, bearded and ringed seals, which feed in the estuary and migrate up the freshwater river in pursuit of migrating fish. Muskox, caribou, black bear and other wildlife are also easily observed in the estuary and valley. Note: JBCO is the only 100% Inuit-owned and operated outfitter registered with the Quebec Outfitter Federation and the Nunavik Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks.
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Parc nature de Pointe-aux-Outardes
Region: North Shore
At Parc Nature, creativity knows no bounds. The project has two components. Firstly, the development of a 4-season reception and interpretation infrastructure with a unique theme; there is no interpretation center that approaches the marine environment from the angle of primary productivity (phytoplankton), which is the basis of the St. Lawrence food chain and marine ecosystems. What's so fascinating? Realizing that this microscopic alga is considered one of the world's largest CO2 collectors and oxygen producers. Then there's the development of new, high-end, unusual accommodations. Imagine sleeping in giant bird's eggs overlooking the river. This innovation in unusual accommodation adds to the existing range of giant bird nesting boxes.
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Shore Grow
Region: North Shore
Shore grow is a family run company with two touristic offers, the Whiteley Inn a 8 room waterfront property, and Salmon Bay Farm a scallop farm located in a protected bay in Bonne Esperance, just 45 minutes from the southern Labrador border. Guests can enjoy interactive experiences, learn about scallop ecology, sample local flavors, and take boat tours showcasing the local fishing industry's evolution, while enjoying the comforts of home at the inn. The project aims at broadening the services and extending the tourism season with new accommodations and ecotourism experiences.
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Traditional site Uamastakenis
Region: North Shore
This project consists of establishing a traditional Uamastakenis site that will serve as a base camp for all cultural activities. Located 78 km north of Baie-Comeau, in the Nitassinan, it will offer an immersion in the life of the nomads according to the seasons. Offering stays from one day to five days with rustic lodging, authentic seasonal activities in different cultural heritage sites, groups will be accompanied by a guide to live an enriching and instructive experience.
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Willie’s Camp
Region: Nunavik
Willie’s camp was a Caribou sport hunting camp owned by the George river cooperative association. This camp operated successfully from 1996 to 2017 when a moratorium was introduced in Quebec to cease the sport hunt for Caribou. The camp has remained unused since then. The project aims thus at changing its vocation to create a fishing camp in July and August, and a Caribou viewing and hiking camp from mid August through September. This camp is 200km west of Kuujjuaq and has great potential for both of these activities.