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GATINEAU PARK
PARC DE LA GATINEAU

Giant's Trail
Sentier du Géant

Giant's Trail begins at the parking lot 11 at O'Brien Beach on the Meech Lake.
The Giant's Trail are the trails numbers 36, 50 and Cowden Road and the loop has 16 Km. Very good exercises!!!!
On this trail you have several points of interest as the waterfall at Carbide Willson’s ruins, Rourke’s Clearing, Hope House and Capuchin Chapel. See the map.
When you are walking on the Giant's Trail you are standing on the one of the Earth's oldest geological formation. Although we still may found a few White Pines in the area, most have now been replaced by the majestic Maples because the wood of the white pine forests was exported during the Napoleonic wars.

Le Sentier du Géant commence à la plage O'Brien du Lac Meech.
La promenade du Sentier du Géant est de 16 km et le circuit passe sur le Sentier 36, le Sentier 50 et le chemin Cowden, Un sentier excellent pour faire des éxercisces physiques!!!!
Sur ce sentier il-y-a plusieurs secteurs d'intérêt pour voir: la chute aux ruines de Carbide Wilson, la source du ruisseau Meech, la clairière Rourke, la maison Hope et la Chapelle Capuchin. Voir la carte.
Le Sentier du Géant passe sur l'une des plus vieilles formations géologiques. Encore on peut voir quelques Pines blancs. La plus part des Pines blancs ont été remplacés par de Maples. Pendant les guerres de Napoleon le bois des pines blancs des forêts a été exporté.

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Tomas Willson
"Tomas Willson (1860-1915) settled here in 1907 to study chemical fertilizers. The engineer, who had made a fortune with his discoveries and inventions in the field of electrochemistry considered this the ideal site for one of his most daring experiments. Within these walls, now in ruins, he condensed phosphoric acid to produce phosphate fertilizer. He earned his nickname "Carbide" by developing a methods for the production of calcium carbide. This substance is harmless when dry, but produce acetylene - an extremely flammable gas- when dampened with water. With Willson's process, acetylene could be safety stored in the form of inert calcium carbide. Today, the Willson house, located on O'Brien Point at Meech Lake, is used for federal government conferences."

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