The openness of local residents enabled Louise Abbott to create a remarkable documentary study of this overlooked region of Quebec. In The Coast Way, Abbott focuses on the people of the Lower North Shore and the ways in which their lives have changed during the past twenty years. She presents, in photographs and words, an image of a society in transition - where homemade birch brooms and satellite dishes sit side by side. In the early 1970s when electric light finally reached the Lower North Shore, one of the last places in Canada to be provided with electricity, it was quite an event. "The...