Sports & Games Archives | Touring the Gaspé Peninsula

Restigouche Hotel – a Century of Hospitality

One of the best-known hotels in the entire region was the Restigouche Hotel in Matapédia. Located where the Restigouche and Matapédia rivers meet, the Restigouche Hotel was famous […]

A Fisherman’s Paradise – Intruders not Welcome

The Cold Spring Camp on the Matapedia River is one of the most prestigious in the Gaspésie and has attracted fishermen from far and wide since the beginning […]

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 […]

A Gîte Like No Other

Mountain lodges have a long history in the European Alps. National parks in both the United States and Canada imported the model and designed buildings to accommodate the […]

The Good Roads Movement

The Good Roads Movement pushed the government of Quebec to invest in its road network. Born in the 1870s in the United States to encourage local, state and […]

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 […]

The Gaspésie on Foot

Travelling to the Gaspésie often meant doing it the old-fashioned way – on foot. A handful of travellers have left written accounts of their experiences, providing a record […]

The Gaspé Region’s First Tourist Guide of the Tourist Association

The Association touristique régionale (ATR) de la Gaspésie has been producing a tourism guide every year in French and English-language editions since 1986. Still the most popular and […]