This painting reflects the changes that were taking place on the outskirts of Vincent’s village of Jeune-Lorette from the mid-nineteenth century onward, as city people from Quebec began to establish country homes and hunting camps in the area. The figures grouped in the boats, the steamboat, the house and boathouses, the jetties, and the tree trunks lying on the riverbank—all of these elements demonstrate the rapid progress of settlement and the arrival of tourists.