Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent

The most beautiful sunsets

An old woman sitting at a window, watching the sun set over the St. Lawrence.

A sunset in Notre-Dame-du-Portage, seen from the veranda of the Boucher family summer residence (July 1939).

For decades the Lower St. Lawrence has boasted that it offers visitors the world’s most beautiful sunsets: the sun reflects, pink and orange, on the St. Lawrence until it completely disappears behind the mountains of the northern shore.