New Carlisle, Quebec

New Carlisle, Quebec is a small town in the Gaspé region best known as the birthplace of René Lévesque, although he was actually born in Campbellton, New Brunswick. The population is approximately 1430, half English-speaking and half French-speaking. New Carlisle is the seat of Bonaventure Regional County Municipality.

Originally settled by Loyalists in 1775, it was named by the then Lieutenant-Governor Nicholas Cox after his home town of Carlisle in England.