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