An informative booklet on the Mi’kmaq community of Gesgapegiag was created following a concentrated two-week effort by four teachers at the Wejgwapniag School in Gesgapegiag. Ramona Jerome, John Martin, Gertrude Martin and Roger Martin demonstrate the pride and history of Gesgapegiag in this collection of articles.
Writing in 1936, Olive Willett Smith, a Gaspé native, began her travel book Gaspé the Romantique this way: "In summer, as the thermometer hovers in the nineties and the humidity tags along, go to the Northland; to Gaspé, that eastern arm of the Province of Quebec stretching out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the air is like champagne."
The production of the book Once Upon a Time in the Gaspé was a successful intergenerational project organized by the Committee for Anglophone Social Action and funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
John Mason Clarke was an American palaeontologist and a world authority on Devonian life and time. He was author of more than 10,000 printed pages, distributed among 450 books and papers.
The Heart of the Gaspe contains early twentieth-century sketches of the peoples and places of the Gaspé Coast, along with photos and illustrations.
The Gaspé, Including an Account of L'Île Percée, by John M. Clarke,examines the history, customs and geology of the region, at a time when a new road running down the south shore of the St. Lawrence River was opening the area to tourism.