Montmorency Falls
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Location | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
Coordinates | 46°53′27″N 71°8′51″W / 46.89083°N 71.14750°W |
Type | Cataract |
Total height | 84 m (276 ft) |
Number of drops | 2 |
Watercourse | Montmorency River |
Average flow rate | 130 m3/s (4,600 cu ft/s)[1][2] |
The Montmorency Falls (French: Chute Montmorency) is a large waterfall on the Montmorency River in Quebec, Canada.[3]
Location
The falls are located on the boundary between the borough of
Access and tourism
Around 970,000 visitors a year visit Montmorency Falls.[5] There are staircases that allow visitors to view the falls from several different perspectives. A suspension bridge over the crest of the falls provides access to both sides of the park. There is also a funitel that carries passengers between the base and the top of the falls. In the summer the park hosts an international fireworks competition with the falls as a backdrop.[6]
During summer months, the falls give off a yellow glow due to high iron content in the waterbed.[7]
The
In July 2019, it was announced that the Montmorency Falls tourist site will be getting a $33-million makeover.[8]
In popular culture
The Falls were the site of a key scene between the lead actors in the 1947 film Whispering City, which was filmed on location.[9][10]
In his poem "Sleep and Poetry" (1816), John Keats says that human life is "a poor Indian's sleep / While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep / Of Montmorency."[11] Recreational sleighing on the frozen falls is recorded in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration, The Montmorency Waterfall and Cone, to an engraving of a painting by W. Purser, published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836.[12]
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The Falls appeared during the finale of The Amazing Race Canada 5 in 2017 and were the site of the episode's first task in which competitors scaled a cargo net suspended over the Falls.[13]
Gallery
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An early 1760s engraving of Montmorency Falls by William Elliott from a drawing made by Captain Hervey Smythe, Major General James Wolfe's aide-de-camp, on July 31, 1759, from the British Army's encampment, two months before the Battle of Quebec.
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A 1781 etching of Montmorency Falls in May by the British surveyor James PeacheyNational Archives of Canada.
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The Ice Cone, Montmorency Falls, Québec, an 1845 painting by the English artist Robert Clow Todd.
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Montmorency Falls in Winter, an 1850 painting by the French-Canadian artist Joseph Légaré.
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A look at the surrounding areas, opposite the falls. Quebec City can be viewed in the distance
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Photo of the Sugarloaf forming at the base of the falls in winter
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Falls
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Suspension bridge
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Distant view
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View of Montmorency Falls from the Trans Canada Trail
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Wooden trail
See also
- Canyon Sainte-Anne
- Charlevoix tourist train
- List of Waterfalls
- Sépaq
References
- Réseau Sépaq, Parc de la Chute-Montmorency Historic Site brochure, 2003.
- ^ "Le Portrait de Bassin Versant". Plan Directeur de l'Eau 2005 (in French). Conseil de Bassin de la Rivière Montmorency. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Graphique des données à une station hydrométrique". www.cehq.gouv.qc.ca. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- ^ Professor Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay (19 January 2007). "Montmorency Falls, Quebec". Virtual Field Trips. Archived from the original (11500px) on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) highest in the province of Quebec - ^ Québec, Office du tourisme de. "Parc de la Chute-Montmorency". Official Web Site - Québec City Tourism. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
- ^ "Here is How to Get to Montmorency Falls from Quebec City". 12 October 2021.
- ^ Fireworks at Montmorency Falls
- ^ "Montmorency Falls - Quebec City 101". Quebec City 101. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ "Facilities at Montmorency Falls tourist site to get a $33-million upgrade". 12 July 2019.
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- ^ "Whispering City (1947)". Retrieved 2012-01-19.
- ^ 31. Sleep and Poetry. Keats, John. 1884. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Bartleby.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-12.
- ^ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1835). "picture". Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836. Fisher, Son & Co.Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1835). "poetical illustration". Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836. Fisher, Son & Co.
- ^ Yeo, Debra (2017-09-13). "One team climbs all over the others to win The Amazing Race Canada". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
External links
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- Vivre Au Canada.tv: Montmorency Falls during summer
- . . 1914.
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905. .