Gaspé (city)

Gaspé is a city at the end of the peninsula of Gaspé in the east of the Quebec in the area of Gaspésie-Island-of-the-Madeleine and the MRC of Coast-with-Gaspé, with the Canada. With the census of 2001, the city had a total population of 14.932 inhabitants.

Geography

The city includes/understands, with municipal fusions, in addition to the downtown area of Gaspé, several villages (or districts), in particular River-with-Fox, Douglastown, Handle-with-Griffon the, Cape-of-Rose trees, Cape-with-Os, Saint-Majorique and Small-Cape.

The National park Forillon is entirely included/understood within the limits of the city. Three rivers with salmon sprinkle the Town of Gaspé and form an attraction particularly snuffed of the sporting fishermen during the summer.

History

Gaspé comes from the micmaque word of origin (Gespeg), meaning “end of the ground”. It is the July 24th 1534, at the time of its first voyage in America, that the navigator Jacques Cartier takes refuge in bay of Gaspé and plants there a cross as a possession of the territory in the name of the king of France, François Ier. This gesture is worth in Gaspé the title of “Cradle of the Canada-French”

Gaspé accommodated the Jeux of Quebec during the summer 1993.

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Municipalities bordering

Sources

  • Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
  • Commission of toponymy of Quebec
  • municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

See too

Grattan O'Leary

External bonds

  • Town of Gaspé

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