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Month: November 2022

Quebec City and Montreal

Quebec City and Montreal

Quebec City The first morning in town, Boo and I headed out to Battlefields Park and the Plains of Abraham. We walked through the park, viewing the Martello Towers, stopping to read the signs, then around the Citadel walls and onto the Terrasse Dufferin for great views of Old Quebec or Vieux Quebec. We walked back along the Rue Saint Louis and Saint Louis Gate to Esplanade Park and Parliament. Tours That afternoon I had booked the Free Walking Tour of…

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Maritime Provinces: New Brunswick

Maritime Provinces: New Brunswick

After 3 days in Fundy National Park, I spent a week in the lovely Saint Andrews by the Sea. Saint Andrew’s Charlotte County Archives and Old Jail. From 1831 all the way to 1979 the stone jail held men downstairs in 10 cells with only narrow slits for light. Women and children were held upstairs. Two men were hung in the back, one as late as 1942. They found the scaffolding for the second hanging during remodeling and updates; that…

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