Male & Female Archives | Touring the Gaspé Peninsula

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]