Riviere-du-Loup, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Whether you come up from the heartlands of Québec or cross over from New Brunswick on the Trans-Canada Highway via Cabano , RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP is essentially the beginning of the Gaspé Peninsula. The town is a prosperous-looking place, whose hilly centre, complete with broad streets and handsome Victorian villas, owes its development to the timber industry and the coming of the railway in 1859, which established Rivière-du-Loup as a crossroads for traffic between the Maritimes, the peninsula and the rest of the province. Its significance as an administrative and commercial centre has … more »