As a head guide on  Anticosti Island for more than thirty years, adviser in hunting, fishing and summer vacationning for Sepaq and enthusiastic photographer, I am the privileged witness of many original scenes and moments, some of which are presented to you on this site.

My love affair with  Anticosti Island began in July 1974, when the government of Quebec bought the island from the  Consolated Bathurst . I was engaged as a guide for hunting in the Mcdonald sector. Being a woodsman at heart and having originated from the Saguenay area, I immediately felt like "a fish in water" when faced with such a faunal paradise. Working as a guide on Anticosti  seemed the most beautiful job in the world and I will always think this is true.

Promoted to head guide at the Carleton lodge in 1978, I worked there during five seasons, then returned to Mcdonald for summer vacationning, trout fishing and deer hunting. I then moved to Jupiter 30 and guided for salmon fishing and hunting for several years. Since 1994, I have been the head guide for Jupiter 12, which is the top-of-the-range product of Sepaq Anticosti, from the end of September to the beginning of December. I work at Sepaq’s head office for sales and reservations in Quebec city for the remaining time.

All these years of guiding on Anticosti Island, including many visits on my own for fishing and summer vacationning, gives me an expertise that is very useful in my work advising clients on hunting, fishing and holiday matters. I would thus be very happy to advise you about a stay on  Anticosti Island.  Do not hesitate to contact me . 

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                      René Bourque  September 2008
 

               In January 2007, I gave myself a  challenge to create a web site containing some of  the photographs that I had the privilege to take during all these years carrying a camera on Anticosti island. I wanted to produced a virtual tour showing the various facets of the island.

The first version of  Anticostiphotos.com was on line in September 2007. Your’re looking at a new update, on line since January 17, 2009.

At first, I just wanted to show my photographs and to there after use them as a tool for promotion, putting a personnal vision of  Anticosti island on the Web. Autodidact, not having any experience in programming, I created all the graphics on Photoshop, for then calling upon a programmer for the first version. Then I wanted to be able to do the programming myself and started to follow some cours. This new version will soon be upgraded as my knowledge and my photo bank will involve more.

This site contains recent digital photographs, twinned with some older, digitized in black and white and color. In order to accelerate the remote loading of the images and by constraint of virtual space, all the photographs appearing on this site are in low resolution and lose by the fact a certain quality. For the visitors who would like to have  information, of the impressions or the enlargings of my photographs, do not hesitate to contact me by email. 

                   Good visit on Anticostiphotos.com.