Gaspe

Gaspe is a city at the tip of the Gaspe Peninsula in the Gaspesie– lles-de-la-Madeleine district of eastern Quebec in Canada. Gaspe is situated around 650 kilometers 400 mi upper east of Quebec City, and 350 kilometers 220 mi east of Rimouski. As of the Canada 2011 Census, the city had an aggregate populace of 15,163. Notwithstanding the city, Gaspe's region incorporates the networks of Cap-aux-Os, Cap-des-Rosiers, Douglastown, Haldimand, Jersey Cove, L'Anse-e-Fugere, L'Anse-a-Valleau, L'Anse-au-Griffon, Penouille, Petit-Cap, Petite-Riviere-au-Renard, Pointe-Jaune, Riviere-au-Renard, Riviere-Morris, Sandy Beach, Saint-Majorique, Saint-Maurice-de-l'echouerie, Wakeham, and York Center.

The city's domain involves 1,440 square kilometers 560 sq mi and fringes the ocean and the St. Lawrence River for somewhere in the range of 130 km 81 mi. French is the principal dialect learnt by a large portion of Gaspe's populace where about 90% of the populace is French Canadian. Gaspe is the place Jacques Cartier claimed New France now part of Canada for the sake of Francois I of France on July 24, 1534.

Gaspe claims the title of "Support of French America", on the grounds that on June 24, 1534, traveler Jacques Cartier ended in the inlet subsequent to losing a grapple amid a tempest and asserted ownership of the region by planting a wooden cross with the lord's escutcheon and the sentence Vive le Roi de France signifying "Long experience the King of France". Cartier met there an indigenous clan that alluded to the domain as Honguedo, most likely a Mi'kmaq word signifying "meeting place".