Gaspé is a city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the city had a total population of 14,819. Gaspé is where Jacques Cartier took possession of Nouvelle-France (now Canada) in the name of Francois I of (...) (from Wikipedia)