From Peterborough To Stouffville

Thursday morning I took Trouble to the groomers in Peterborough and me to the hair dresser next door. When I came out I was met with Christmas. Tim Horton’s was filming a Christmas commercial in the street in front of the shopping center and the whole street was closed off.

To compensate for the inconvenience they were handing out Tim Horton gift cards. I have no idea how much it is worth. There was also this beautiful old home across the street.

As soon as Trouble and I got back to the park we hooked up the car and left. This time we went through lots of little towns with unique little houses.

And we drove along by some beautiful lakes.

Friday afternoon I went back into one of the towns we drove through to go to the Post Office to mail a birthday card to one of our grandsons in Japan. While there I took a picture of this beautiful old church.

And this neat Art Deco movie theatre.

And finally this interesting house.

To Peterborough and Beavermead Park

Shortly after we left Quebec, QC we passed through Montreal.  For some reason the GPS took us downtown so we got a really good view of the bridge there.

These are two of the many churches in Montreal.

There was lots of farm land as we drove with a few cities scattered here and there.  This is one of the churches in the small cities.

Here is one of the many farm houses.

Peterborough has a famous attraction.  It is a very old lift lock that takes boats from one level of water to another.  It has to have two boats to work.  On on the upper level that wants to come down and one on the lower level that wants to come up.  The last time we were here we got to watch it in operation.

When walking around we saw these geese.

We stayed at Beavermead Park on Little Lake.  The camp ground is nice with level spots but only 30amp service and no sewer.  It makes up for it with lots of walking trails and very large grounds.  There are lots of ducks that come around at all times of the day.  they are very tame and Trouble was not at all impressed.

They even let me hand feed them.

I think Trouble was missing all of his buddies.

The RV shop here ordered a new jack for us and it should be there in five working days.  In the meantime we are going to Stouffville.

Quebec Country Side

After lunch we re-boarded the bus for a tour of the country side.  We headed across a bridge to Ile d’Orleans.  This island has lots of farms, orchards, and vineyards.

 

We stopped at a chocolate makers for candy.

This old house had very interesting flowers made of metal.

We drove back to the mainland and continued east to Parc de la Chute-Montmorency.  This beautiful 83 meter-high waterfall is 20 meters higher than Niagara Falls.  It is bordered by trails and lookouts as well as a bridge over the falls.  There is a cable car that takes you to the top on the left of the falls or you can climb the 487 steps of the panoramic stairwell that winds its way up the cliff side to the right of the falls.

  

Right down the road there is another falls that was very pretty.

There are many old homes in the area.

There is even one that looks like it should have been in The Addams Family.

Next stop was Cuivres D’Art Museum/Boutique.  I didn’t take my camera in so I can’t show you the pictures but I can tell you that The artist, Albert Gilles, work in copper and silver is beautiful.  They gave us a demonstration of how you go from a flat piece of copper to a 3-D piece of art.

We drove on to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre church.

These brass doors are an example of Albert Gilles’s work.  As you can tell—they are exquisite!

The inside of the church was equally as beautiful.  There were stained glass windows all around and frescos on the ceiling.

I particularly liked the baptismal area with this enameled copper piece of art.

 

The archway above the baptismal had seashells.

This is a close up of one of the door panels.  It is of the birth of Christ.  In Albert Gilles’ gallery he had done this work in silver so I am assuming that this was a reproduction of that work.

There were also beautiful granite or marble sculptures in the alcoves around the outside of the church.

On the ground floor was the chapel.  There was a totally different feel to this area.  The ceilings were low and curved and there was a blue haze to everything.

This is a picture of the ceiling detail.

Tomorrow it is off to Peterborough to see about getting the jack on the coach fixed or replaced.

Old Quebec, QC

We took a bus tour of Old Quebec this morning.  This Hotel du Ville (means City Hall) has been mistaken for a real hotel.

 

It rained on and off all day so some of the pictures have rain drops.  These are the tents for the Cirque du Soleil that is showing right now in Quebec.  This is a paid show.

In another part of the city under some over passes is another Cirque du Soleil show that was created for Montreal.  This show was standing only but it was free.

This is the Chateau Frontenac with the bronze roof.  It was originally a fort.

This is another view of upper Old Quebec form the waterfront park.

Here are some of the old buildings in the lower city.

 

This is looking up the street at the Funicular that takes you from the lower level to the upper level.

These street musicians were setting up to play in the Petit-Champlain section.

This little church was in the same area.

As was this large 3-D mural that Wayne is standing in front of.

This is a bust of Louis the Fourteenth in the small park in the Petit-Champlain section.

More street scenes.  Note the hanging metal sculptures.

These are some of the stairs you have to climb between the upper and lower city unless you take the funicular.

Here is Wayne on the street with the hanging sculptures.

There were also cute sculptures in the windows and on the walls.  I especially liked these cats.

 

This woodpecker was huge.

There was also a nice park among the shops.  Too bad we didn’t have time to do more than walk through this area quickly.

  

We reloaded the bus and went by the Parliament building.  If you look closely at the left side of the building, you are seeing a screen that is painted to look like the building while they are doing reconstruction work on it.  Pretty clever.

Next stop was the parks.  This was Parc de l’Esplanade, Les champs de bataille, les Plaines of Abraham, and Park Jeanne d’Arc.

They were getting ready for a big music festival of military bands.

The flowers were beautiful.

This was one of the many cannons in the park.

There are lots of museums throughout the city.

 

This was a former Prime Minister’s house.

When the tour ended we all went to eat lunch then back to the bus for the afternoon tour.