When Ariane Arsenault bought a second shop to accommodate her small but growing soap business three years ago, she was captivated by the expansive views of Canada’s Magdalen Islands. “You step out the door and turn left, you see the ocean. When you turn right, you see the ocean,” she says. “It’s beautiful.”
A lifelong resident of this archipelago in Quebec, far into the Gulf of St Lawrence, Arsenault has always lived beside vast bodies of water.
