Exhibits

Artefacts from World War I. Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre. New Carlisle was a village where remaining loyal to the British crown and participating in the war effort were important values. The Municipality contributed to one of the most important war efforts during the First and Second Word Wars, and during the Korean War, with 10% of the population having enrolled. (Photo - Heritage New Carlisle)
Werner Alfred Waldemar von Janowski: New Carlisle’s Spy

The permanent exhibition at the Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre deals with an important aspect of the history of New Carlisle: that of its military past and its veterans.

Agricultural objects from the 18th and 19th centuries. Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre. Upon arrival in Gaspésie, each family received land, farming tools (an axe, a hammer, a saw, a hoe, a spade, nails and a pair of hinges), seeds, provisions for three years, bedding and furniture, in order to begin a new life. (Photo - Heritage New Carlisle)
The Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre: An Overview of Our Permanent Exhibition

The Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre's permanent exhibition, through eight themes and more than 150 artefacts, retraces the history of New Carlisle, from the arrival of the loyalist pion

42-pound salmon, Cascapedia River, c.1910. (Photo - Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
If a River Could Only Talk: The Cascapedia -- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Introduction:

The arrival of the new governor general, the Marquess of Lorne, and his wife, Princess Louise, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1878. (Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
The Cascapedia River: Domain of the Governors General of Canada

The Grand Cascapedia River tells a fascinating tale about the lives of the men and women who shared a time on one of the most famous Atlantic salmon fishing rivers in the world.

George Merchants taking a load of supplies up-river, c.1900. (Photo - Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
A Community and a Salmon River

The Cascapedia River begins as two fast flowing streams high in the Shick Shock Mountains.

A nineteenth century engraving of Princess Louise and the Marquess of Lorne. (Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
Princess Louise and the Cascapedia River

Princess Louise, who was the sixth child of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, and wife of the Marquess of Lorne, governor general of Canada from 1878 to 1883, first came to the Cascaped

The catch of the day! (Photo - Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
The Cascapedia Giants

The Atlantic salmon is one of the most fascinating fish in the world.

Edmund Davis (centre) with one of his prize fish, c.1890s. Davis is the only fisherman to have ever caught three Atlantic salmon weighing over fifty pounds each on the Cascapedia River. (Photo - Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
The Mysterious Death of a Fisherman on the Grand Cascapedia River

“Such a beautiful country is not an accident. God must have created this wonderful wilderness, where all is happiness, all is peace.”

Salmon fishing on the Cascapedia River, late 19th century. The Cascapedia has been a popular fishing destination since the 19th century. (Photo by Notman Studios. Cascapedia River Museum Collection)
The Grand Cascapedia River: A Photographic Journey

The fabled Grand Cascapedia River is known by most fishermen for its large Atlantic salmon that are sometimes called the Cascapedia Giants.