Tremblant in the fall is one of Quebec’s best-kept secrets. It just might be the best time of year to take a Tremblant road trip.
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Amazing history at Grosse-Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site
Take a Quebec City day trip to this historic island to learn how Grosse Île operated as an immigration quarantine station in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A sample of beautiful Charlevoix and the southern St. Lawrence
Hit the road for a Quebec City day trip. This short loop can be extended over a weekend and includes a ferry ride and both shores of the St. Lawrence River.
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Gaspé road trip: Be inspired by the sea
Like the sea slowly alters Percé Rock, a Gaspé road trip may change you. If you live between Windsor and Quebec City, it’s your shortest route to the sea.
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Experiencing the natural beauty and motorsport legacy of central Quebec
If you’re like me and prefer to make the most of the klicks you put on your odometer, you might wonder whether there’s anything else noteworthy you can do while paying a visit to the city of Trois-Rivières. My daughter and I turned the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières race weekend into a full-blown road trip, spending an entire week taking in the many beautiful and fascinating sites threaded together by the Saint-Maurice River, which defines the history and geography of central Quebec.
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A monolithic voyage to Quebec’s Mingan Archipelago
Just when I think I’ve seen the full extent of Canada’s geological glory, I find myself staring 30 feet up at a woman’s face carved into limestone. This sculpture is not the creation of humans. This is the methodic work of centuries of erosion, carved from the remnants of a prehistoric seabed thrust skyward out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence after the last ice age. And there are dozens more of them, together making up the largest group of such monoliths in the country, scattered across the islands of the Mingan Archipelago.
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Roughing it amid luxury at Montebello’s Land Rover Experience
This is not a puddle. I’m behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery, staring ahead and considering the water obstacle in front of me. It’s certainly not a lake. In fact, it probably barely qualifies as a pond. But it’s deep – how deep, I don’t know exactly – and like it or not, I’m about to drive through it.
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An ice-covered tour of Quebec City
Quebec City changed me. I’d never been a fan of winter. Aside from the few times each year my daughter would beg us to bundle up and take her ice skating, I’ve long made a habit of sitting under blankets drinking tea and waiting for the coldest months to pass. In Quebec, though, you’ll hear a well-known line from a song by Quebecois poet Gilles Vigneault: « Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver. » My country is not a country, it is winter. It encapsulates a beautiful aspect of French Canadian culture, a deliberate commitment to refuse to put life on hold but instead to fully embrace this unique aspect of northern life.
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Car camping in the Magdalen Islands
The Magdalen Islands — les Îles-de-la-Madeleine in French — are among our most precious hidden gems. Remote, exotic, and utterly beautiful, this tiny archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is a popular French Canadian destination but is virtually unknown outside of Quebec. You can even get there with your own car and, with a bit of ingenuity, camp out in it and take in the islands up close and on the slimmest of budgets.
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