Saint Augustin

Saint Augustin is a district and settlement in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality in the Cote-Nord locale of Quebec, Canada, known by its vast English-talking populace as St. Augustine. Its domain extends along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, though the settlement itself is situated on a promontory in the Saint Augustin Bay at the mouth of the Saint-Augustin River. On the contrary shore of this waterway is the Innu settlement of Pakuashipi.

The larger part of its tenants are Metis, relatives of Inuit and Europeans, a large number of whom still practice subsistence exercises, for example, chasing, angling, wood cutting, catching and wild berry gathering, utilizing both customary and present day innovations. The zone was initially possessed by Innu and Inuit clans, who were for the most part uprooted once Europeans started to misuse the territory.

In the late seventeenth century, a French post may have been built up on Vieux Poste Island. Around 1720, an exchanging post was built up around which the settlement shaped. It was first recognized as Saint-Augustin– Saguenay, named after Augustin Le Gardeur de Courtemanche 1663– 1717 who in 1702 was allowed the land concession "from the stream rang Kegaska to the one named Kesesakion" for a time of 10 years and who was the King's Commander of the Labrador drift in 1714.