St. Jean Port Joli, QC Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The first settlement of any note along Hwy 132, some 80km east of Lévis, is ST-JEAN-PORT-JOLI , where the long main street accommodates the galleries of the region's most popular woodcarvers . A traditional Québécois folk art, woodcarving flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but had almost expired by the 1930s, when the Bourgault brothers established their workshop here. Initially, religious statuary was their main source of income, but their folksy style and francophile themes were adopted and popularized by the nationalists in the 1960s. Along the main road, on the … more »