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Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspé in 1534. Gaspé claims the title of "Cradle of French America", because on June 24, 1534, explorer Jacques Cartier halted in the bay after losing an anchor during a storm and claimed possession of the area by planting a wooden cross with the king's coat of arms and the sentence Vive le Roi de France ("Long live the King of France").
From Gaspe Bay, on September 14, Wolfe sent Major John Dalling to march 130 miles (210 km) along the shore up the St. Lawrence. There he reached Mont-Louis, Quebec on September 23, after marching for eleven days. Along the way they took four prisoners.
Gaspé Bay is where Jacques Cartier took possession of New France (now part of Canada) in the name of François I of France on July 24, 1534 - the beginning of France's overseas expansion.
The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia [2] (French: Gaspésie, ; Mi'kmaq: Gespe'gewa'ki), is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Gaspé, Gaspésie, Gaspee, may refer to: . Gaspé, Quebec, a city in eastern Canada; Gaspé (electoral district), a past federal electoral district of Canada Gaspé (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Quebec
Cross of Gaspé at the time of its erection in 1934. The Cross of Gaspé is a monolithic granite cross installed in 1934 in the town of Gaspé, Quebec, commissioned by the Government of Canada to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of French explorers in Canada.
The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) was originally a hiking trail which ran from Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it followed a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continued to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle ...
The administrative region of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine was created on December 22, 1987. It brings together two geographical units: the Gaspé Peninsula (20,102.69 km 2, 7,761.69 sq mi) and the Magdalen Islands archipelago (205.4 km 2, 79.3 sq mi).