page_title: Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Quebec
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Quebec / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Gros-Morne, Gaspe peninsula Français&#160;: Photographie représentant le village de Gros-Morne. À l'avant-plan, des filets de pêche suspendus pour le séchage et un petit bateau de pêche ("flat") tiré sur la grève. Au centre, une série de maisons alignées le long du rivage, derrière lesquelles on trouve plusieurs autres bateaux de pêche. La route traverse le village pour ensuite remonter la montagne, à droite du cap.
context_page_description: Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. Located in the administrative region of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the regional county municipality of La Haute-Gaspésie, the municipality comprises the communities of Mont-Louis, Ruisseau-des-Olives, L'Anse-Pleureuse, Les Côtes-du-Portage and Gros-Morne.
  The municipality had a population of 1,118 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
  The eponymous Mount Louis is one of two prominent hills that line the Bay of Mont-Louis. The 465-metre-high hill was named after King Louis XIV of France.
context_section_description: The place was first inhabited by twelve families in 1697 and fifty-three in 1699, but was abandoned by 1702. Later that century, fishing businesses set up in the Mont-Louis Bay, east of the mouth of the Mont-Louis River. It was considered at that time as the best location on the Saint Lawrence River for cod fishing. In 1758, the post was destroyed by General James Wolfe during his Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign.
  By 1863, Mont-Louis had grown to 200 inhabitants, and four years later, the Parish of Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis was founded, which was named after Maxime Tardif (1821–1850), a secretary to Bishop Pierre-Flavien Turgeon. In 1884, the municipality was established, taking its name from the parish.
caption: Gros-Morne circa 1930
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