Located in the middle of the world’s largest estuary, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Anticosti Island is about the size of the French island of Corsica in the Mediterranean.
Home to just 216 inhabitants, it welcomes between 800 and 1,000 tourists every summer.
The Island was founded in early 20th century by a wealthy French chocolatier named Henri Menier.
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He owned the island for a few decades and created a private hunting place by bringing the first deer (220 in 1895-96).
As many as 4,000 hunters come to the island to hunt the 200,000 or so deer, who are known to walk freely through the streets of the island’s only town, Port-Menier.
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