Gaspé is a city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec in Canada. Gaspé is about 650 km northeast of Quebec City and 350 km east of Rimouski. Gaspé has a total population of 15,063, as of the 2021 Canadian Census. Gaspé is where Jacques Cartier took possession of New France in the name of François I of France on July 24, 1534. The most common assumption is that "Gaspé" may come from the Miꞌkmaq word Gespeg which means "Land's end".