Buildings & Structures Archives | Touring the Gaspé Peninsula

Restigouche Hotel – a Century of Hospitality

One of the best-known hotels in the entire region was the Restigouche Hotel in Matapédia. Located where the Restigouche and Matapédia rivers meet, the Restigouche Hotel was famous […]

A Fisherman’s Paradise – Intruders not Welcome

The Cold Spring Camp on the Matapedia River is one of the most prestigious in the Gaspésie and has attracted fishermen from far and wide since the beginning […]

Religious Tourism

Tourism and the desire to travel began with the need of believers to make pilgrimages to shrines and places of worship. Several of the Quebec’s most popular destinations […]

To the Lighthouse

What manmade feature near Gaspé is almost as popular as Percé Rock? The correct response is: the lighthouse at Cap-des-Rosiers. At 34.1 metres in height, the Cap-des-Rosiers lighthouse […]

Rebuilding the Highway

By the 1950s, the Perron Boulevard was thought to be old and antiquated. Barely wide enough for two vehicles, it was thought to be dangerous and in need […]

Ladder to Success

Matane was the first of the region’s cities to recognize the value of allowing visitors to observe the Atlantic salmon up close. As early as the 1850s the […]

Billboard Tourism

There is often a forest of billboards at the entrance to many cities and towns. On many scenic routes, billboards have vanished, banned by cities and towns to […]

Tourism Information Kiosk

Tourist information bureaus were created in many cities and towns to disseminate information to travellers. Almost every town seemed to have a tourist information counter. Today, they are […]

Tee Time?

The golf course in Metis Beach was so rustic when it first opened that it traversed the front yard of several cottages. The Cascade finally moved the first […]

Creating a Tourism Industry

For much of its history, the Gaspé was a destination with no attractions. Aside from Percé Rock and the highway itself, there were few ‘attractions’ that tourists could […]

Tennis Anyone?

What to do in a seaside resort where it is too cold to swim? Lawn tennis came to Quebec from England in the 1870s. Tennis required nothing more […]

A Gîte Like No Other

Mountain lodges have a long history in the European Alps. National parks in both the United States and Canada imported the model and designed buildings to accommodate the […]