The region is located northeast of New England, southeast of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, and southwest of the island of Newfoundland.

Acadian settlements had primarily agrarian economies, although there were many early examples of Acadian fishing settlements in southwestern Nova Scotia and in Île-Royale, as well as along the south and west coasts of Newfoundland, the Gaspé Peninsula, and the present-day Côte-Nord region of Quebec.

* 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.

In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of Francis I.

So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony — New Brunswick — was created in 1784 ; followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada ( French Canada ) along the St. Lawrence River and Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital settled by 1796 in York, in present-day Toronto.

In 1944, he and Elisa traveled to the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec, Canada, where he wrote Arcane 17, a book which expresses his fears of World War II, describes the marvels of the Rocher Percé and the extreme northeastern part of North America, and celebrates his new romance with Elisa.

the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough ), the Beauce region, the Gaspé Peninsula, Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean region, and Quebec City.

The gulf is bounded on the north by the Labrador Peninsula, to the east by Newfoundland, to the south by the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island, and to the west by the Gaspé and New Brunswick.

NASA satellite image of the Gaspé Peninsula.

Mont Albert, in the Chic-Choc Mountains of the Gaspé Peninsula.

The Gaspésie ( official name ), or Gaspé Peninsula, the Gaspé or Gaspesia, is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, extending into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The area of the Gaspé Peninsula is near that of Belgium, at.

* List of people from the Gaspé Peninsula

Chaleur Bay is the large bay opening to the east ; the Gaspé Peninsula appears to the north and the Gulf of St. Lawrence is seen to the east

The northern shore is formed by the south shore of the Gaspé Peninsula.

* Bonaventure Island and the Bonaventure River in the Gaspé Peninsula Region of Quebec

planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of King Francis I.

Large swaths of rural Quebec, mainly the Gaspé Peninsula and the north shore, were served from 1927 by an entity known as Corporation de Téléphone et de Pouvoir de Québec, and in 1955, this became known as Québec Téléphone.

The Honguedo Strait ( French: Détroit d ' Honguedo ) is a strait in eastern Quebec, Canada, flowing between Anticosti Island and the Gaspé Peninsula.

Forillon National Park, one of 42 national parks and park reserves across Canada, is located at the outer tip of the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and covers 244 km².

Several families in the Gaspé Peninsula region were forced to re-settle in the surrounding areas and hold a vivid memory of the events that unfolded during those times.

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Hunter-gatherers would eventually flourish all over the Americas, primarily based in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, with offshoots as far east as the Gaspé Peninsula on the Atlantic coast, and as far south as Chile, Monte Verde.

* July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.

Other islands include Île d ' Orléans near Quebec City, and Anticosti Island north of the Gaspé.

* Gaspé, Quebec

It is spoken by the francophone population of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by small minorities in areas in the Gaspé region of eastern Quebec, by small groups of francophones in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, in the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and a small swath of the northernmost portion ( St. John's Valley ) of the U. S state of Maine.

The eldest of four children, Lévesque was born in the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Campbellton, New Brunswick and raised 133 km away in New Carlisle, Quebec, in the Gaspé peninsula, by his parents, Diane ( née Dionne ) and Dominic Lévesque, a lawyer.

Lévesque attended the Séminaire de Gaspé and the Saint-Charles-Garnier College in Quebec City, both of which were run by the Jesuits.

* Gaspé, Quebec, Canada ( 2009 )

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Pair at Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec

Born in Newport, Quebec in the Gaspé Peninsula, Mary Rose Anna Travers " La Bolduc " was a Native descendant Mi ' kmaq Métis.

2: A very large Darrieus wind turbine on the Gaspé peninsula, Quebec, Canada

The Míkmaq (; Mi ' kmaq: ) are a First Nations people, indigenous to the northeastern region of New England, Canada's Atlantic Provinces, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec.

George d ' la Forge's maintenance of the language in North American diaspora is not as surprising as it might seem, as considerable numbers of Jersey people had been involved in the economic development and exploitation of the New World ( see New Jersey ), although much of the concentration focused on the cod fisheries of the Gaspé peninsula in Quebec, Canada, which were controlled into the early 20th century by Jersey-based companies or companies of Jersey origin employing Jersey labour.

Following CN's privatization in 1995, the company undertook a network rationalization program which made the IRC line between Moncton and Rivière-du-Loup, along with its trackage on the Gaspé Peninsula, redundant and it was sold in 1998 to short line operator Quebec Railway Corporation which now operates the New Brunswick East Coast Railway and associated subsidiaries.

Labrador is an irregular shape: the western part of its border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador Peninsula.

* Labrador Peninsula, encompassing all of Labrador and most of Quebec

* Ungava Peninsula, Quebec

During 1755-1763 Acadia consisted of parts of present-day Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and the Gaspe Peninsula in the province of Quebec.

The northernmost point of the Ungava Peninsula, Cape Wolstenholme, also serves as the northernmost point of the Labrador Peninsula and of the province of Quebec.

Poitou is believed to be the region of origin of most of the Acadian and Cajun populations of North America ( settlements founded in New Brunswick, Louisiana, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, Maine and Newfoundland ).

The Jacques Cartier Strait ( French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier ) is a strait in eastern Quebec, Canada, flowing between Anticosti Island and the Labrador Peninsula.

Eight Inuit families from Inukjuak, Quebec ( on the Ungava Peninsula ) were relocated after being promised homes and game to hunt, but the relocated people discovered no buildings and very little familiar wildlife.

The Hammer of Thor, located on the Ungava Peninsula, Quebec may be an inuksuk.

WCFE's signal is also carried in Quebec City on cable as well as most of the Gaspe Peninsula and Saguenay.

Astrophyllite is found in a few scarce, remote localities: Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada ; Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA ; Narsarsuk and Kangerdluarsuk, Greenland ; Brevig, Norway ; and the Kola Peninsula, Russia.