Mountains Archives | Touring the Gaspé Peninsula – The History of an Epic Road Trip

Wonderland of Gaspé

Wonderland of Gaspé is one of the earliest films for a bilingual audience made to present the Gaspé coast. The work of Montreal’s Associated Screen News, it offers […]

A Legendary Tour

The Gaspé Peninsula History, Legends, Resources, Attractions was the inaugural publication of the Department of Highways and Mines to promote the region and its attractions. The dense descriptions […]

The Image of the Gaspésie

Professional photographers created an image of the Gaspésie. Working for Canadian National Railways, the Canadian Government Travel Bureau (founded in 1934) or the Service de ciné-photographie de la […]

Road Maintenance

As soon as automobiles began to circulate, the roads became a veritable nightmare. Roads require maintenance. Municipalities asked for government assistance to maintain the new roads, used as […]

First Past the Post – a Cyclist Explores the Gaspé for the First Time

Cycling through the Gaspé has become popular in recent years. La Route verte offers cyclists a paved road and shoulders along nearly 1,000 kilometres and some of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Last Outpost

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts was for decades the last outpost along the northern slope of the Gaspé Peninsula. It was where the road ended, quite literally. Only a walking path connected […]

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 […]

Birders’ Paradise

Long before there were parks, there were places of such great natural value that citizens and organizations sought to protect them. The nesting site of the gannets on […]

Parks Born in Controversy

The creation of a park is usually greeted with enthusiasm by the local population – but not always. The creation of a national park at Forillon was painful […]

Gaspé Tours – Custom Travel to See the Gaspé in Four Days

There was a time when Quebec had a fully integrated transportation system – when the automobiles and trains worked in close collaboration to move tourists from one point […]