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5 unusual facts about Gaspe


Battle of the St. Lawrence

U-43’s failed attack on SQ-43 off Gaspé resulted in “one of the most effective counterattacks during the St. Lawrence battle. It was stated that” Six depth charges from the Bangor-class minesweeper Gananoque knocked out it's lights, blew the battery circuit breaker and activated a torpedo in one of the sub’s stern tubes.

Cross of Gaspé

The Cross of Gaspé was originally erected on July 24, 1534 overlooking the bay of Gaspé, by the team of Jacques Cartier on his first trip exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Gaspé, Quebec

In 1600, Englishman Richard Hakluyt used the name Gaspay in his translation of Cosmosgraphie by Jean Alfonse, which became the common spelling in the early 17th century.

This Cross of Gaspé that weighs more than 42 tons, was transported by two railcars of the Canadian National Railway from Rivière-à-Pierre.

Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, Quebec

Its factories, employing hundreds of people, process snow crab, rock crab, and lobster.


Abraham Bogdanove

I have painted the Gaspe, the cliffs of Cornwall, the Riviera, but there's a magnetic force in these rocks here, I believe, which brings us back again and again.

George F. Le Feuvre

The Le Feuvre family was separated in 1901 when George senior, Florence, and their two younger sons, Sidney and John, emigrated to Jersey's cod-fishing settlements at the Gaspé coast in Canada.

Guy Lelièvre

He was also an administration member of several regional associations in the Gaspé region which promotes development.

Jean Alfonse

In them he describes the various places and peoples he and others have seen, many of them for the first time in print (such as Gaspé, the Beothuk, Saint-Pierre Island, the jewels of Madagascar, a continent south of Java) and provides navigational instructions on how to get there.

Justine Lacoste-Beaubien

Born in Montreal, the daughter of Alexandre Lacoste and Marie-Louise Globensky, she married Louis de Gaspé-Beaubien, son of Hon.

Montreal – Gaspé train

The consist of the Montreal – Gaspé train in recent years is composed exclusively of cars built by the Budd Company, many originally used by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Canadian.

Volkswagen Blues

Together in Jack's Volkswagen Minibus, they embark on a journey from Gaspé to San Francisco, passing through Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and the American West on their way, exploring the history of European contact with the native people of the Americas.


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