In 1975, the year the Montreal Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society presented him with its Calixa Lavallée Music Award, Félix Leclerc entered into a musical collaboration with the orchestrator François Dompierre that yielded, among others, a masterful production of Le tour de l’île, a song that expresses the poet’s love for his adopted land and mirrors the island’s tranquility. The song also reflects the artist’s sovereigntist convictions and his indignation at the Canadian government’s decision to invoke the War Measures Act during the October crisis in 1970.

In 1979, Félix Leclerc accepted to lend his name to the ADISQ (Association de l’industrie du disque et du spectacle québécois) statuettes, the Félix awards. ADISQ presented Leclerc with its Tribute Award in the very first annual awards ceremony.

Félix Leclerc lived on the Island of Orleans until his death on August 8, 1988.