This article analyzes the relationships that Alma (the protagonist of Georgette LeBlanc’s poetic novel of the same name) develops with the natural world, in contrast with those of her partner Pierrot. Alma weaves close ties with plants, animals and the other humans on the land, acknowledging the relatedness and interdependence of living beings, while Pierrot reproduces a specist and hierarchical model valorizing humans over other creatures and men over women. The author argues that this opposition between a relational (Alma) and “self-created” (Pierrot) identity stems in large part from the dominant construction of gender in the Baie Sainte-Marie region during the first half of the twentieth century.