Film · Documentary

The Land of Jacques Cartier (1963)

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his exploration he certainly marvelled at seeing the great auks that have since disappeared from Isle aux Ouaiseaulx, the razor-bills and gannets that are gone from Blanc-Sablon, and the kittiwakes from Anticosti, all the winged creatures of all the islands which he described as being "as full of birds as a meadow is of grass". And that's not even counting the countless snow geese.

Director

Pierre Perrault, René Bonnière

Writers

Pierre Perrault

Country

Canada

Language

French

Release date

June 1, 1963

Original title

Toutes Isles