Anticosti Island is a 3,200 square mile island located at the mouth of the St. Lawrence Seaway between the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and Newfoundland. Once owned by French chocolate magnate Henri Menier, who transformed the ecology of the island with his introduction of white tail deer for hunting, silver fox for breeding, and leopard frogs for eating mosquitos, students investigate numerous aspects of this very different island ecosystem. They study such things as the foraging ecology of deer, visiting archaeological and marine fossil sites, and participate in marine, arctic/alpine and old-growth forest studies, boreal fen investigations, whale watching and birding excursions, and cave explorations.

Students stay at the Carleton Lodge, a former lighthouse station, where they are treated to comfortable accommodations and excellent regional cuisine. They are greeted each morning by many of the 10,000 deer that currently inhabit the island, which, with the Atlantic salmon that swim the island's wild rivers, have made Anticosti Island a hunting and fishing paradise.