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‘Page 77, Jane 13, 1979 - North Shore News

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By CLAUDE R. LEMIEUX

Yearning for a taste of
European culture? No

need to cross an ocean...

Just drive around the
beautiful province of
Quebec. The fine
French. cuisine found
almost everywhere ....
the old buildings
dotting the rural
highways ... cities like
the provincial capital,
Quebec... all are
somehow
of another
another place.

No matter where you cross
the border into Quebec you
will find a region, rich in
history and natural beauty
but each one different from
the other.

Highway 401 from
Toronto, for example, takes
visitors to the cosmopolitan
city of Montreal and the
ever-popular Laurentians,
while crossing into Quebec
from Ottawa leads motorists
to the beautiful Gatineau
Valley and atso_ the

‘ Laurentians,

reminiscent
time,

by way of
Highway 148 along the
Ottawa River.

Quebec has close to 2,000
km (1,242 miles) of divided
highways but it is along the
first class secondary high-
ways and back roads that
one can best appreciate the
charm and splendor of the
countryside.

First-time visitors to the
province should not miss
Montreal or Quebec City.
On an-extended trip, both
can be visited, since they are
only 240 km (149 miles)
apart.

Montreal, with its 2.7
million population, is the
second-largest French-spe-
aking city in. the world, after
Paris.

All categories of hotels,
fine food, great shopping
facilities and _ interesting
Museums have always been
Montreal's chief attractions.

Add to this exciting
professional sports, the huge
Olympic Stadium, the world-
renowned Botanical
dens and an Underground
City with hundreds of shops

STILL A THRILL for tourists and residents are the
many rodeos held throughout the west each summer.

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and restaurants and you
have one of the continent's
most fascinating cities.

Quebec City, the
provincial capital, also has.
its share of fine hotels,
restaurants,-. shopping op-
portunities and museums,
but it is especially famous for
its historical attractions and
its incomparable. site
overlooking the ‘mighty- St.
Lawrence.

Millions of dollars and
years. of effort have been
spent to restore a large part
of Quebec’s Lower Town to
its 17th century origins, ==

Montreal is the gateway to
the Laurentians, while
Quebec City is the starting

_ point for excursions to the

Isle d’Orleans, the Beaupre
Coast and the Gaspe
Peninsula.

Sai

‘La Belle Province’

A. short distance from

either city is the Eastern
Townships.

THE LAURENTIANS

Just north of Montreal, via
a modern divided highway,
is the largest concentration
of year-round resort hotels
and holiday facilities | on this
continent.

For generations,
Canadians and Americans
have skied in the Lauren-
tians in winter and played
golf and tennis in summer.

The region has more than
200 hotels and motels, 20
golf courses, a flying club,
summer theatre. and ex-
tensive facilities for tennis,
canoeing, fishing, riding, sky
diving, mountain climbing
and other sports. Sight-

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seeing, nature trails, chair
lifts, mountain safaris and
handicraft shops also keep
vacationers busy.

" Mont-Tremblant Park,
138 km (86 miles) north of
‘Montreal, is packed with

beautiful mountains, lakes
and = rivers.

For nature
lovers, it has 965 lake, seven
major rivers, 27 species. of
mammals, 114 species of
birds, 18 of fish and 407
different plants.

THE GATINEAU VALLEY

Just across the Ottawa
River from Canada’s capital
is the increasingly-modern
city of Hull, founded in 1800
by Philemon Wright, from
Massachusetts, who started
the lumber industry which

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