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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 […]

Building the Roads

The journalists and drivers who drove the Gaspé tour for the first time during the summer of 1929 were generous in their praise. One of them reported: The […]

Out with the Old, in with the New

…its chronic weakness and general decrepitude The bridge over the Metis River was at the end of its life when the new Gaspé highway was built. The local […]