QC Trip Stats (7/07):
Regions visited:
2
Best
region: Montérégie
Town visited most:
Iberville
Most impressive town:
Philipsburg
Least impressive town:
Brossard
Biggest town:
Montréal
Most scenic area:
Upper Richelieu River valley
Most scenic spot:
Baie Missisquoi
Three words:
boisterous,
friendly, narrow
Road Trips:
New England
(7/2007)
Neighboring Territories:
ON, NB, NL, ME,
NH, VT,
NY
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First Contact:
I entered Québec from New York, crossing the busy border crossing at
I-87 near St-Bernard-de-Lacolle. We waited in line for quite
some time before being warmly wlcomed by a Canadian border agent
with a French accent. After getting information from the welcome
center and buying a sweater, we drove north toward Montréal with the
intent to camp somewhere in Québec. The city was very crowded and we
got stuck in a few traffic jams before I saw the real Québec along
the Richelieu River southeast of Montréal. The real Québec is made
up of rushing cold waters, cow pastures, small wheat farms
capitalized by silos, and beautiful Catholic churches surrounded by
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The province is
divided into 86 administrative districts called Municipalités
Régonale de Comté (MRC).
These are collected into administrative units called "régionaux."
I will use these regions to organize the gazetteer and, in turn,
try to organize these by MRC.
Montérégie
Region (7/2007)
Les Jardins-de-Napierville MRC:
St-Bernard-de-Lacolle. Napierville.
Longueuil MRC: Brossard.
Roussilon MRC: La Prairie.
La
Vallée-du-Richelieu
MRC: La Prairie.
Le
Haut-Richelieu
MRC: Iberville. St-Athanase. Sabrevois. Henryville.
St-Sébastien.
Brome-Missisquoi MRC:
Pike River. Philipsburg.
Montréal
Region
(7/6/2007)
Montréal
MRC: Montréal. Coming soon!
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The sun sets over the Missisquoi Bay of Lake
Champlain near Philipsburg. (2007)
A huge European-style building in Montreal.
(2007)
The old town of St. Jean sur Richelieu
is capitalized by its church spire.
(2007)
All photos (c) 2007 J. Bezold. All rights
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