Posts in Tag: quebec
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Chateau Saint-Louis NHS – History Beneath Your Feet
This is the second of four posts I am writing on lesser known, but extremely important National Historic Sites in the Quebec City area. In the first post I visited Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial NHS and learned about the 4 million + immigrants who first set foot on Canadian soil there, including my […]
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La Tempete Golf Club Hole by Hole
The people of Quebec have had a love affair with golf since Royal Montreal opened as the first golf course in North America in 1873. Thankfully the days of segregation when the Anglos played at English speaking courses and the Quebecois at French speaking ones are pretty well long gone. Golf is a game that […]
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Coaticook Gorge and Oka National Park
I almost hate to write this, but it is the final day of the Quebec RV trip. Our destinations have been the Outaouais and Eastern Townships regions of Quebec and for five straight days we’ve had phenomenal weather. Last night it rained heavily, but not until we’d had a chance to experience the out-of-this-world Foresta […]
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Foresta Lumina – A Must Visit Attraction in Coaticook Gorge
It’s time to move on again in our RV trip to Quebec. This morning we are leaving Yamaska National Park, where we have enjoyed two wonderful days, cycling the park, biking down Mount Bromont and visiting Granby Zoo.We are headed for the town of Compton, deep in the Eastern Townships and later the mysterious Foresta […]
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Yamaska National Park with a Stop at Beautiful Montebello
It’s the third day of the RV trip to the Outaouais region of Quebec with my adult son Dale. We’ve had a blast at the Chutes du Coulonge adventure park and the lovely Gatineau hills town of Wakefield. But already I’m having regrets – regrets that is about having to leave Plaisance National Park after […]
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Wakefield Quebec and the Gatineau Area
The Quebec RV trip has gotten off to a great start with two fantastic days and nights at Camp Leslie in Otter Lake which we used as an outpost to visit the fantastic adventure park at Chutes du Coulonge. However, there are places to go and people to see, so my adult son Dale and […]
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Chutes du Coulonge – Adrenalin Rush at the Adventure Park
In this post my son Dale and I will visit the Chutes du Coulonge in Quebec and visit the falls and the Adventure Park there which includes some truly hair raising challenges. But first, a few words on how we ended up in this seldom visited region of the province. For the past five years […]
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Le Massif, Quebec – Seven Reasons to Ski It and Love It
For decades I have made it a habit every winter to get my ass down to Quebec for some great skiing, Quebecois cuisine and share some of the joie de vivre that Quebecers have for winter. For the past twenty years or so it has been Alison and me, first skiing the better known hills like […]
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Le Germain Charlevoix, Baie St. Paul – Why You’ll Love It
I usually would not do an entire post based around a hotel, but Le Germain Charlevoix in Baie St. Paul, Quebec is such a unique place to stay that it merits its own post. When I first wrote this post it was the Hotel Le Ferme, but since has become a property of the trendy […]