| Isle-aux-Grues | |
| Native Name: | Old name=Île Crane |
| Nickname: | --> |
| Map: | Quebec |
| Location: | Saint Lawrence River |
| Coordinates: | 47.0594°N -70.5431°W |
| Archipelago: | Isle-aux-Grues |
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| Length Km: | 7 |
| Width Km: | 2 |
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| Country: | Canada |
| Country Admin Divisions Title: | Parish municipality |
| Country Admin Divisions: | Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues |
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Isle-aux-Grues (French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.
The Isle-aux-Grues is measuring about 7 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide. However, its dimensions increase to by, if including the flats which connect it to Île aux Oies. It is one of the twenty-one islands which make up the Isle-aux-Grues archipelago.
The island has an airstrip which is the only access to the island during the winter. Isle-aux-Grues is also served by a ferry during the summer.
Children from Isle-aux-Grues attend school in Montmagny, Quebec, travelling by plane each day.[1]
On May 19, 2010 at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, a Cessna 172 airplane carrying four people crashed on Isle-aux-Grues, killing three people initially. The fourth later died in hospital.
The toponym "Île aux Grues" was made official on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]