Social History Archives | Touring the Gaspé Peninsula

Wonderland of Gaspé

Wonderland of Gaspé is one of the earliest films for a bilingual audience made to present the Gaspé coast. The work of Montreal’s Associated Screen News, it offers […]

The First Nations in the Gaspé

The first tourists to the region marvelled at the unique ability of peoples of the First Nations to build canoes and manoeuvre them on the region’s many rivers. […]

Eleanor Roosevelt Slept Here

Who is the most famous person to have visited the Gaspé? American presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush have fished rivers in the region. So too have members […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tour of the Gaspésie

“We can repair all your troubles” was the slogan for the Garage P.B. Dubé in Port-Daniel Est, an important claim in a region that still had few garages […]

The Gaspé Highway – Where Disaster Often Strikes

The Gaspé highway has been the victim of natural disasters ever since it was built. The first disaster to affect the new road occurred in July, 1930 when […]

Bathing

One of the key reasons to travel east from Montreal in the 19th century was to “take the waters”. Doctors prescribed sea bathing as a tonic and a […]