The event that won the 1998 Island Tourism Development and Innovation Award.
The brain child of local artist, Yolande Painchaud, this multidisciplinary theatrical production of 50 actors and musicians, recounts the history of the Islands from the year 1000 AD to the present day.
The 250 seats hall is doted with three different sets with the action taking place at the side sets (representing the ship Hopewell of Charles Leigh with the other the Grande Hermine captained by Jacques Cartier) as well as on centre stage and in the aisles. This theater piece is represented in French and has been translated into both English and Spanish.
It is three o'clock in the morning, the fishers have awoken early in anticipation of the first day of the lobster season. They take advantage of this gathering time to recount in detail the days gone by. Each one recalls from his knowledge a story from our collective past. One of these storytellers advances the idea that " the first people to come to these Islands were the Micmacs " and from there one will see and hear the history of the ISlands brought alive with scenes from Cartier's arrival, Charles Leigh, the first owner of the Islands, the coming of the first Acadian and Abbé Alain with 250 of his parishioners from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon fleeing the French Revolution. You will also discover one of the finest pages of Island history, the story of the " Ponchon " and finally the play ends with the fishers departing for the deeps in search of lucrative lobsters grounds!
