Cap Éternité

Cap Éternité is a mountain in the municipality of Rivière-Éternité, the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec, Canada. It overlooks, to the southwest, 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.

Cap Éternité
View of Cap Éternité from the upstream course of the Saguenay River.
Highest point
Elevation347 m (1,138 ft)
Coordinates48°18′20″N 70°17′26″W
Geography
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
RegionSaguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
Parent rangeLaurentian Plateau
Geology
Mountain typeCliff

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.

View of Éternité Bay from Cap 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
  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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