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Portrait of Pink Lake

Pink Lake is one of the most popular sites in Gatineau Park and has been for a long time.

This may be because it is one of the first parking areas you come to going up the parkway, but it’s certainly worth the stop.

Although there is something pink about the lake, it takes its name from a family of settlers who arrived from Ireland in the 1820s and tried to eke out a living farming these rocks. Continue reading