Port of Mont-Louis

Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine (Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis), QC · Transport Canada · Transport Canada · St. Lawrence River / Gulf of St. Lawrence

The Mont-Louis wharf is a Transport Canada-owned public port facility located east of the village of Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River (north Gaspé coast), about 560 km downstream from Quebec City, and is listed under the federal Ports Asset Transfer Program. From the 1950s to the 1980s the wharf served the Mines Gaspé company, which operated the Murdochville copper deposit, with large fuel tanks built on site for ore transshipment; that commercial cargo activity has long since ended. In 2017 Transport Canada decided to rockfill (enrocher) the structure without public land or sea access, and the enrochement work was largely complete by autumn 2019 despite local efforts to preserve pedestrian/sport-fishing access. The wharf has no current commercial cargo operator; the surrounding community retains a fishing heritage anchored by two onshore fish-processing plants (Cusimer and Atkins et Frères), but these are not cargo tenants of this wharf.