[1] The city is the birthplace of NHL player Mathieu Garon, Quebec politician Joseph-Léonard Duguay, singer "La Bolduc" (Mary Rose Anna Travers), singer and actor Flora Gionest-Roussy and world curling champion John Kawaja.

[5] In 1758, the settlement was destroyed by General James Wolfe during his Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign.

In 1876, it had become the most important civil and religious town in the Gaspésie region, and the place was incorporated as the Municipality of Pabos.

[5] In 1912, Percy Milton Chandler, a Philadelphian manufacturer, built the first pulp and paper mill in the Gaspésie at the mouth of the Grand Pabos River, originally known as Portage-du-Grand-Pabos.

List of former mayors (since formation of current municipality):[10] Centre de services scolaire René-Lévesque operates Francophone schools.