Gaspé

Gaspé, a peninsula in the east of Quebec province, comprising the counties of Gaspé and Bonaventure, projects into the Gulf of St Lawrence, between the estuary of that name on the north and the Bay of Chaleurs on the south. It has an area of nearly 8000 sq. m., and about 35,000 inhabitants, the greater number engaged in the important fisheries, which, with the export of lumber, form the staple business of the country.—GASPÉ BASIN, where Cartier landed in 1534 (see CANADA), is a port of entry in Gaspé Bay, now the seat of extensive fisheries. Pop. 726.