2 
During an excursion along the north coast of Gaspe he found no 
evidence of ice action at all for 100 miles, between Fox river and Ste. Anne- 
des-Monts, and believed that the higher part of the peninsula was unglac- 
iated even by local ice. 
He describes the most important of the local glaciers as occupying 
the trough of Chaleur bay, and as 120 miles long and 30 to 40 miles 
broad, with a thickness of 900 or 1,000 feet in Restigouche ‘ml ley. 
One of the later geologists who refers to the glaciation of Gaspe is 
Goldthwait 1 . He examined the raised beaches in various places, and 
apparently thinks that the Labrador ice-sheet crossed at least a part of 
Gaspe peninsula; he states that “the dominant movement in the region 
southeast and south of the Magdalens, namely, over Cape Breton and 
northern Nova Scotia, was southward, with a divergence toward the semi- 
circular border of the shallow basin in which the Magdalen islands 
occupy a nearly central position”. However, in other writings he refers 
with approval to Chalmers’ suggestions as to local glaciers, such as the 
Chaleur glacier, and leaves the matter open. 
' Hayes, in 1918, describes the Laurentide ice-sheet as moving south- 
ward over Nova Scotia to the Atlantic ocean, but thinks there may have 
been local glaciers radiating outward from Nova Scotia at a later time' 2 . 
1 Geol. Surv., Can., Mus. Bull. No. 14, 1915, p. 10; and Twelfth Inter. Geol. Cong., 
Guide Book No. 1, 1913, pt. I, p. 17. 
2 Geol. Surv., Can., Sum. Rept., 1918, pt. F, p. 24. 
