An Institution

Hotel La Normandie was built in 1937 and is among the first hotels on the Gaspe Peninsula to have offered high quality services to international tourists.

Unfortunately the initial installations were destroyed by a fire in May 1977. A newer hotel in many ways similar to the first building opened on the same site in 1979 then offering 32 rooms. Thirteen (13) units were added in 1990 for the actual total of 45.

La Normandie Hotel, a white impressive building sitting atop the cliffs like a giant seagull, provides breathtaking views at sunrise and sunset on the Perce Rock and the bay. A superb place to stay. It has second floor rooms with balconies overlooking the famed rock, the island and much more.

Perce, the lovely site of La Normandie, is on the popular and beautiful Gaspé Peninsula, where the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River meets the Gulf. This peninsula is hundreds of millions of years old, one of the oldest land masses on earth, but one of the most recently populated. Its coastline is rugged as well as beautiful, a fitting attraction for explorers such as Jacques Cartier, who set up a wooden cross here in 1534 and claimed the land for the King of France, and Samuel de Champlain, who in 1603 gave the place the name of Gachape, from the indian word gespeg, which means the "end of land" in the language of the Micmac Indians.