Trip to Venise-en-Québec 5.Fort Lennox, Canals

This is the last post for this particular trip. It predates the critter release, but I was so excited by the aforementioned event.

I've split our two-day trip up into 5 parts, as Québec is quite different.
There are lots of forts dotted across the St. Lawrence, and these big rivers constituted transportation systems in the early parts of colonialisation. Of course, First Nations knew the beauty and power of the rivers. White settlers exploited it for the fur, timber and agricultural opportunities.

Fort Lennox - Sadly it was closed for the season. It was a bit of a detour, but there you go! As is typical, it was built for the was between the US and England.



 

Here is Fort Lennox, seen overhead on the island. Note the canals!

This is a really interesting system of canals in a couple of spots along the river. I had no idea they were there. Tiny lots, with neighbours head to tail. I guess the opportunity of having your sailboat off your dock must have been great.

What was really interesting were the canals. Yes, in Quebec!
Then there is Saint Zotique!

Saint-Zotique is a Quebec municipality, located about 45 minutes west of Montreal . It is named for Saint Zoticus of Comana . The Saint Lawrence River and Lake St. Francis and along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor , the most populated area in Canada .


 

Trip to Venise-en-Québec 4. The Hotel

We made it! It was a long, long drive. Here is our hotel. We were restricted to this hotel, as we were staying on points.
It's a fairly new hotel, attached to the golf course. If you reuse your towels, they give you a $5 credit!

The room was a bit loud, as there is only a curtain separating the bathroom from bedroom. It's new, clean and shiny. I figured out the 'wall' swivelled, in order to watch TV from either the bed or the couch.
Our room had a bar frige. It was stocked with some beer, but mostly wine you could buy.
There was a bar, and a dining area, both with patios. Excellent service.

We figured out the menu, all in French. We used our French with the servers, as best we could.

We did really well. Hubby has to avoid yeast, dairy and eggs. We figured out pain (bread), and pain de banana (banana bread), and so on!


Here is the 360 ˚  tour!
Hotel from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Trip to Venise-en-Québec 3. signage

It was time to refresh our French driving vocabulary. 'Vitesse' = speed! So, in hindsight, these are speed cameras!
There are lots of Catholic churches, with majestic spires. Farming communities, for the most part, then small towns with two catholic churches and a strip club. New York isn't far away, and in hindsight we could have brought passports and driven back through the US.

There were lots of wineries (établissement vinicole, le Chat Botté), maple syrup (produit de l'érable), apple farms (you-pick => auto-cueillette), snow (neige),  strip club (danseurs nues), fire station (caserne d'incendie), garlic farm (d'lail), ice cream (creme de glace), brothers (les frères).

I like the stop signs, they show whether it's a 3-way or 4-way.