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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 […]

Excursion to the Sea

Excursions to tour the Rocher Percé and Bonaventure Island have been popular for more than a century. What’s not to like? Captains regale visitors with stories as they […]

The Last Outpost

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts was for decades the last outpost along the northern slope of the Gaspé Peninsula. It was where the road ended, quite literally. Only a walking path connected […]

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 […]

A Photographer’s Paradise

Today, everyone is a photographer. The advent of digital photography and a camera on every telephone has made a photo device the companion of every traveller. In yesteryear, […]

Artists at Work

Even when on vacation, artists are rarely without a brush or a sketchbook. Some artists choose to live where others vacation. Suzanne Guité grew up in Percé and […]

Birders’ Paradise

Long before there were parks, there were places of such great natural value that citizens and organizations sought to protect them. The nesting site of the gannets on […]

Parks Born in Controversy

The creation of a park is usually greeted with enthusiasm by the local population – but not always. The creation of a national park at Forillon was painful […]

Youthful Gaspésie

Lida Moser was one photographer who was as interested in the people selling handicrafts as the handicrafts themselves. Her work had appeared in American fashion magazines. In 1950, […]

Gaspé Tours – Custom Travel to See the Gaspé in Four Days

There was a time when Quebec had a fully integrated transportation system – when the automobiles and trains worked in close collaboration to move tourists from one point […]

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 […]