Cap Éternité

Cap Éternité
Cap Éternité
	Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
Parent range	Laurentian Plateau
Geology
Mountain type	Cliff

Cap Éternité is a mountain in the municipality of

Éternité Bay while to the west is Cap Trinité. Reaching an altitude of 347 m (1,138 ft), it is part of Saguenay Fjord National Park

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The name of the cape was made official on December 5, 1968.[1] To the west of the bay, the Éternité River gave its name to the municipality of Rivière-Éternité.

Its impressive rock mass and steep cliffs make it a major tourist attraction site in the Saguenay Fjord National Park. Cape Eternity inspired painters, poets and writers, including Charles Gill (1871–1918)^[2] and William Chapman (1850–1917).^[3]

Notes and references

^ Toponymy: Cap Éternité
^ Charles Gill,Le Cap Éternité, posthumous edition, 1919, Song IX:

Dizzying pediment of which a world is the temple,
It’s eternity that this course makes you think:
Let the hour go past him
Silently, oh my soul, and contemplate.
^ Cap Éternité, Commission de toponymie du Québec; William Chapman in 1916:

Let us suppose that the end of the centuries had come,
That all was engulfed under a frantic breath
That he remained standing in the dreary expanse
Only a colossus of stone at the edge of the Saguenay.

[1] Toponymy: Cap Éternité

[2] Charles Gill,Le Cap Éternité, posthumous edition, 1919, Song IX:

Dizzying pediment of which a world is the temple,
It’s eternity that this course makes you think:
Let the hour go past him
Silently, oh my soul, and contemplate.

[3] Cap Éternité, Commission de toponymie du Québec; William Chapman in 1916:

Let us suppose that the end of the centuries had come,
That all was engulfed under a frantic breath
That he remained standing in the dreary expanse
Only a colossus of stone at the edge of the Saguenay.

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