The land around Rimouski is less and less a territory for productive activities and more and more a space for leisure activities. Thus the hinterland of Rimouski can be considered a social product. As an object of considerable and diverse market forces, this product is part of strategies which deneutralize space. Appropriation-expropriation of a milieu of life is achieved by interveners originating from Rimouski and monopolizing a know-how strongly valued by society. The process is as follows : land appropriation by absentee land holders, utilization and frequentation of a space for leisure purposes, crystallization of such practices by the State. Those who enclose space, and those who organize it, are those who consume it. From the point of view of the division of labor, in opposition to the « executants », most of them participate in the same social stratum, the « competents ». It is through these urban-rural and hearthland-hinterland relations, and even in a greater sense, through social structure that analysts will interpret major changes in space production.