Francis Vachon Photographe

A young Cree plays street hockey in the Waswanipi Cree reserve in the province of Quebec, Canada, July 17, 2009. Waswanipi is a Cree / Lynu / Innu reserve located on provincial road 113 and has a population of 1,473 people.

A saptuaan longhouse is pictured in the Waswanipi Cree reserve in the province of Quebec, Canada, July 17, 2009.

A saptuaan longhouse is pictured in the Waswanipi Cree reserve in the province of Quebec, Canada, July 17, 2009.

More Waswanipi Cree native reserve images on my stock site.

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• Kitigan Zibi Algonquin native reserve
• Inuksuk
• Mashteuiatsh innu / Montagnais native reserve artwork

The Norkraft Domtar pulp mill is pictured July 15, 2009 in Lebel-Sur-Quevillon (QC). Stopped since November 2005 for a lock out, the Domtar mill permanently closed its door December 18 2008. The pulp mill and the sawmill, also closed, where responsible for 70% of the job in this mono industrial town of 3000 citizens located 600km north of Montreal.

The Norkraft Domtar pulp mill is pictured from the air July 15, 2009 in Lebel-Sur-Quevillon (QC)

The small town of Lebel-Sur-Quevillon (QC) is seen from the air July 15, 2009

A sign warns motorists of the presence of oversized wood truck near the Norkraft Domtar pulp mill in Lebel-Sur-Quevillon (QC)

More Lebel-Sur-Quevillon images on my stock site.

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• Some images of Ile d’Orléans
• A trip to Saguenay Lac St-Jean
• Wendake’s Kabir Kouba waterfall

I was just passing by on my way to see my dying step-mother, so I just stopped a couple of minutes to photograph the obvious. A couple more Mashteuiatsh innu / Montagnais native reserve images are on my stock site.

A tipi-shaped artwork is seen on a promenade facing the lac St-Jean lake in the innu (Montagnais) reserve of Mashteuiatsh (also called Pointe-Bleue) in the province of Quebec, Canada. The reserve is the home of almost 2000 Innu-Montagnais.

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• Kitigan Zibi Algonquin native reserve
• Inuksuk
• Max “One-Onti” Gros Louis

Just to have something different, I tried the Stadacona paper mill in HDR. I still have many “normal” images of the White Birch Paper Stadacona in my stock

Sun rises over Papiers Stadacona paper mill in Quebec City. Owned by White Birch Paper, the five paper machines at Stadacona have the capability of producing more than 400,000 tons of newsprint, 80,000 tons of directory stock and 45,000 tons of paperboard packaging and multi-ply uncoated specialty grade paper

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• (Very) early morning in Quebec City
• Old cannons – HDR
• Chateau Frontenac in HDR

Two Greenpeace activists, one hiding behind a sign, are seen chained to the Ministry of Natural Resources in Quebec city July 27, 2009. 6 activists chained themselves to the building and two of them setup a huge banner early morning to disrupt regular business in protest against the destruction of Quebec’s intact forests. Photo Francis Vachon/THE GAZETTE

A Greenpeace activists shouts as she passively resists to her arrest at the Ministry of Natural Resources in Quebec city July 27, 2009.

French Canadian singer Pierre Lapointe performs during a concert at the Festival d’ete de Quebec (Quebec city Summer Festival) on the Plains of Abraham July 19, 2009.

More Pierre Lapointe photos on my stock site

Karkwa band member Louis-Jean Cormier performs during a concert at the Festival d’ete de Quebec (Quebec city Summer Festival) on the Plains of Abraham July 19, 2009.

More Karkwa photos on my stock site.

Sorry for the blackout on my blog. Now you know why.

Last photo of my son Edward with her Grandma Carole, 4 days before she died on July 17 of various illness including lung cancer, sclerosis, bone cancer and fibromyalgia. Carole was the mother of my girlfriend Cindy.