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Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé

municipality in Quebec, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ3464433 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t teʁɛz də ɡaspe]) is a municipality in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is the smallest municipality, in land area and population, of the Le Rocher-Percé Regional County Municipality.

Fishing is its primary business, and its harbour handles the fourth highest value of seafood in Quebec. Its factories, employing hundreds of people, process snow crab, rock crab, and lobster.

In addition to the village of Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé itself, the municipality also includes the community of Saint-Isidore.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé” is municipality in Quebec, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, municipality and Quebec, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 84-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-09-06. For this dossier, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, municipality and Quebec is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3464433. VIAF identifies the subject as 158231725. Authority coordinates are 48.417, -64.417. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.