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Québec<br />
As the largest French-speaking region<br />
outside France and Canada’s largest<br />
province, Québec offers a Gallic charm all of<br />
its own. This manifests itself in a great<br />
culinary heritage of sublime restaurants and<br />
delightful pavement cafés. Québec City is<br />
North America’s only walled city and<br />
Montréal is a sleek and buzzing metropolis,<br />
but away from the urban centres Québec<br />
Province spreads out across the vast unvisited<br />
tracts of tundra on the shores of Hudson Bay<br />
to the pastoral and idyllic Eastern Townships.<br />
The Laurentian Mountains are the<br />
playground of the Québecois throughout the<br />
year, while the St. Lawrence River is the<br />
beating heart around which European settlers<br />
gained a foothold. On the south shore the<br />
Gaspé Peninsula’s mountains are draped in<br />
dense forests that grow down to the water’s<br />
edge. The north shore is home to the thriving<br />
arts scene, the charming villages of Charlevoix<br />
and the grand Saguenay Fjord. In the far<br />
north, expedition cruising departs from<br />
Kuujjuaq into the Arctic Circle to see polar<br />
bears, narwhal and Inuit culture while the<br />
Gulf of St. Lawrence is the seasonal home to<br />
blue, fin, humpback and beluga whales.<br />
Québec offers perhaps the most complete mix<br />
of culture, scenery and wildlife of any of<br />
Canada’s provinces.<br />
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