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

Making the Pages of National Geographic

When the National Geographic recognized the Gaspésie as one of the world’s 50 destinations worth travelling to in 2009, the region’s tourism association celebrated and shared the news […]

The Gaspé Peninsula 1,000 Miles of Motoring Grandeur

“Have you ever had a French Canadian vacation?” was the tag line for a series of eight folders produced by the Province of Québec Tourist Bureau. Each brochure […]

Group Travel

Getting to the Gaspé has often meant travelling in groups. For many tourists, their first visit to a new part of the world is in a group. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]