Cultural Archives | Touring the Gaspé Peninsula – The History of an Epic Road Trip

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 […]

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 […]

Cabines

Cabines are one of Quebec’s contributions to holiday architecture. Simple and inexpensive to build, cabines provided little more than a bed and a roof overhead. But they compensated […]

Location, Location, Location

The recipe for success in tourism has yet to be written. Is it timing, ingenuity or simply hard work? One of the key ingredients is location. The village […]