Dowker Island
Dowker Island is a small island and bird sanctuary in Lake Saint Louis, south of the town of Baie-d'Urfé (but administratively part of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot), in Quebec. It was formely known as île Sainte-Geneviève. The owner, Leslie Rose Dowker, now deceased, built a house that has since been destroyed by fire. Its ruins still stand on the island. In the winter, one can hike out to it over the ice; it is a beautiful and peaceful walk that provides lots of sky, snow, ice, and a few brief hours under the natural elements that are as close to unstructured nature as one will find in the area. It has a basic, globular island shape with two arms extending north and east-north-east, forming, between them, a small cove where boats occasionally moor in the summer. In the winter the whole area is full of foot and cross-country ski tracks; as well as, in recent years, with the cleanup of the Saint Lawrence River, lots of ice fishing.
During the 1970s, former Pointe Claire Mayor Art Seguin, then the MNA for the region, lobbied in Quebec City for Dowker Island (also known as Lynch Island) to be the site of the province's first Casino, with hydrofoil service from downtown Montreal.
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