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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.
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