Iles-de-la-Madeleine Specialty Attractions
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Specialty Attractions in Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec.
Island-brewed beers, a pub, product tastings and guided tours are available at this microbrewery facility, located at the end of Coulombe road on Cap-aux-Meules.
For more than 20 years talented artists have been using the islands' most plentiful resource to create original, long-lasting and beautiful sculptures. Sand is hardened using a secret process to create an attractive and durable material from which lamps, vases, hourglasses, murals and much more are formed. The products of Artisans du Sable have been well-renowned world-wide.
Below Rocher du Dauphin's surface, on Grosse-Île, lies large salt deposits that are excavated to be exported throughout eastern Canada and the United States. The mine is a whopping 300 m (984 ft) deep and is 1.6 km (1 mi) in diametre. More than a million tones of salt are produced annually, which is mostly used to de-ice slippery winter roads.








