Chandler, a village in Gaspé county, Quebec, at the mouth of the Grand Pabos river, and on the Atlantic, Quebec, and Western Railway, 70 miles from Gaspé. It owes its existence to an important chemical pulp-mill erected in 1912 at the mouth of the Grand Pabos river, and it derives its name from one of the promotors of the mill.

Source : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 33.