A locality was number 1 settled in the late 17th century. There is a hanker tradition of eel camping here & an interpretative centre in eel fishing is in the village.

Anti-Catholic preacher Charles Chiniquy was born around Kamouraska around 1809. Kamouraska was likewise a location of the 1839 murder of Louis-Pascal-Achille Taché. A event inspired Anne Hébert's 1970 novel Kamouraska, which was made into the film in 1973 by Claude Jutra.

There are salt marshes along a flow of any stream & there exists an ecological reserve touching the village. A marsh will bring home ground utilized by birds for incubation & in the period of migration. Drop along a flow of any stream provide incubation home ground for Peregrine Falcons. Seals can also become seen in the flow of any stream on text. At certain days of season, a mosquitoes found in the lakes may be particularly aggressive.

A village may be reached via Quebec Autoroute 20. Quebec Highway 132 travels through the village.

A title "Kamouraska" comes from either an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge".

Based on data from a Canada 2001 Census: Population: 700 % Vary (1996-2001): -1.0 Dwellings: 389 Area (sq. klick.): 43.51 km² Density (souls by the sq. kilometre.): Xvi.1