Rocher Christie/Christie’s Rock [English]

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A beach shaped through centuries of movement
A rock standing the test of time. Pierced, it catches the eye of bathers and walkers
A piercing gaze
Like that of the Gaspé Peninsula, open to the world, to the movement of grains of sand
The fishers, their boot moored
The water and the onlookers that still come and go
Like history and its pendulum
On this seashore, at the edge of Hugh Christie’s property
Harbour master and customs officer in Paspébiac (1877-1902)¹

A rock standing the test of time

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AUDIO

Interview with Sandi Beebe, April 8, 2025.

Relates the importance of the place to the community.

Also located here is Hall’s Rock, now eroded.

[FRENCH] Interview with Marc Babin, April 11, 2025.

Was a place for swimming. To the north a small spring of drinking water flows.

NOTES

¹ Ville de Paspébiac, “Douane et consulats”, Patrimoine Paspébiac, accessed on May 20, 2026, patrimoinepaspebiac.com/patrimoine-infrastructurel-2/douane-et-consulats. Hugh Christie was also a town councillor in New Carlisle, from 1891 (source : Ken Annett, “William LeBoutillier Fauvel” , Gaspé of Yesteryear 8, no  256 (2015), p. 7. Online version accessed on May 20, 2026. Gaspé of Yesteryear — William LeBoutillier Fauvel.

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1. to 13. Marie-Claude De Souza, 2025.