Les Îlets-Jérémie
hamlet in Colombier, Quebec, Canada
Les Îlets-Jérémie (French pronunciation: [lez‿ilɛ ʒeʁemi]) is a settlement in the municipality of Colombier in the Côte-Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec. Located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, the small community is named after the Jérémie Islets (French: Îlets Jérémie) that are just off its shores and mark the western end of the Jérémie Islets Bay (French: baie des Îlets-Jérémie). The Innu call the hamlet Ishkuamishkut, meaning "where one expects polar bear". Its trading post was once considered as the best trading post on the North Shore.
The islets were named in turn after a certain Noël Jérémie, or Lamontagne, who was born between 1629 and 1638, and died between 1694 and 1697. Around 1660, he established a trading and fishing company. In 1673, the first reference was made to the Îlets-Jérémie Post (later on also written as Îlets-à-Jérémie or Îlets-de-Jérémie) by François de Crespieul. That year, Noël Jérémie was a clerk at the Tadoussac post, but he often went to the islands with his son Nicolas to conduct fur trade with the Innu of Betsiamites and vicinity. Nicolas became an interpreter and clerk of the Hudson's Bay Company, and wrote Relation du Détroit de la Baie d'Hudson, published in 1720.
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