History of Gaspé, Québec, Canada

In 1534, the year of the discovery of Canada, Jacques Cartier entered Gaspé Bay and planted a cross there, declaring the territory a French possession. Since then, Gaspé has always been called the Cradle of Canada.

The Micmac Indians have lived here for centuries, but colonization began around 1765, when the British government granted land to dismissed British officers and soldiers. Twenty years later, in 1784, more than 300 Loyalists, who escaped from the United States after the defeat of Great Britain, settled there.

seigniory, in the co. of Lotbiniere, in the rear of the S. of Tilly, is bounded N.E. by Lauzon; N.W. by Desplaines and St. Giles. - 1 1/ 2 l. in breadth and depth. Granted, Mar. 25, 1738, to Dame Angelique Legardeur, widow of Auberr de Gaspe. - There is not an acre of tillage in this S., and it is scantily supplied with water, although it gives rise to 5 or 6 streams besides the Riviere Noire and Ruisseau Gosselin in the S.E. angle.

GASPÉ, a district of Quebec, comprising the counties of Gaspe and Bonaventure, is surrounded from Cap Chat to Cap des Rosiers by the waters of the River St. Lawrence ; thence to Pointe aux Macquerau by the waters of the Gulf, this point being the boundary between the two counties; thence to Point Magouacha by the Baie des Chaleurs, and thence westward to the uppermost end of the District by River Restigouche : the whole extent being about 375 miles of coast, intersected by numerous smaller rivers, bays, and harbors, and being throughout a most valuable and inexhaustible fishing coast, more particularly so the County of Gaspé, and the Magdalen Islands, situate in the centre of the Gulf. The chief resources of the District, with respect to exportation, are the cod, salmon, mackerel, herring, and whale fisheries, and lumber ; the former principally in the county of Gaspé, and the latter principally in the county of Bonaventure. The imports, consisting of the necessaries of life in the...

GASPE, a maritime county of Quebec, occupying the east portion of the Gaspé Peninsula, has an area of 2,909,940 acres. Chief town, Percé. Pop. 26,875.

GASPE, a district of Quebec, comprising the counties of Gaspé and Bonaventure, is surrounded from Cap Chat to Cap des Rosiers by the waters of the River St. Lawrence; thence to Pointe aux Macqueran by the waters of the Gulf, this point being the boundary between the two counties; thence to Point Magouacha by the Baie des Chaleurs, and thence westward to the uppermost end of the district by River Restigouche; the whole extent being about 375 miles of coast, intersected by numerous smaller rivers, bays, and harbors, and being throughout a most valuable and inexhaustible fishing coast,-more particularly so the county of Gaspé, and the Magdalen Islands, situate in the centre of the Gulf. The chief resources of the district, with respect to exportations, are the cod, salmon, mackerel, herring, and whale fisheries, and lumber; the former...