Cross of Gaspé

[1] Planting the cross symbolized the ownership of the territory on behalf of the King of France, Francis I.

The original 30 feet (9.1 m) wooden cross was probably planted on the edge of the basin north of the York River.

The cross was carved in 1934 from a single block of grey granite, extracted from the Auguste Dumas quarry in Rivière-à-Pierre, Quebec.

The cross weighs more than 42 tons and was transported to Quebec City on two cars by rail from Rivière-à-Pierre.

From 1934 to 1979 it was on Queen Street facing the current "Place Jacques-Cartier" business centre, on the same site of a Second World War memorial.