Gamache Bay

Gamache Bay opens into the western end of Anticosti Island, offering shelter on a coast notorious for reefs and shipwrecks. At the head of the neighbouring Ellis Bay stood a fort built by Louis Jolliet, who received the island as a seigneury in 1680. Around 1810 Louis-Olivier Gamache settled there with his family, making his home at the site of the old fort. Cut off during the long winter, the bay received sailors seeking refuge when the gulf was open.