the island, and would stay over the summer with the inhabitants—descendants of Irish and Norman settlers—the best known of whom was the naturalist William Du Val. Among these inspired visitors: painter Jacques Hurtubise and Kittie Bruneau, the sculptor Morton Rosengarten, the poet Michaël La Chance. Artists and landowners were evicted in the seventies. See also List of islands of Quebec References External links Environment Canada's Bonaventure Page Gaspé Peninsula Coastal islands of Quebec Seabird colonies Landforms of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine