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The Poetic Peninsula

Draw in black ink route No. 6 from Ste-Anne-des-Monts to Gaspé. Along the route, we find the name of all the villages and rivers that we meet.

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Highway No. 6 between Sainte-Anne-des-Monts and Gaspé, 1930

Along Quebec Highways Tourist Guide

Department of Highways and Mines

Provincial Tourist Bureau

Les Amis des Jardins de Métis Collection

 

The poetic names of the Haute Gaspésie have a special beauty, l’Anse Pleureuse, Manche-d’Épée, Grande-Vallée and Petite-Vallée, Grand-Étang and Rivière-au-Renard. Geography is everywhere and has inspired the name of almost every village.

Elsewhere in Québec, the villages are most often sanctified by their association with a patron saint. But this ritual is less present in the Gaspésie. And even when it can be found, the holy association takes on geographical resonance, like in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts.