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Christmas in Central Canada 2025 – All the Rest

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Jan 3 – Today was going to be our last proper tourist day, and unintentionally we made it count. We started off by going to Dorwin Falls Park, and walking along the river there. It’s smaller and narrower than Montmorency Falls, but no less turbulent. Or less adept at covering the surroundings in ice spray.

An interesting sculpture near the entrance to the park. The sign says (paraphrasing) that the human silhouette made of bark should suggest that a common energy unites humans and trees, “as if there were a unifying force for the universe of life”. The Gothic arch symbolizes “the sacred passage towards a perpetual cycle”.

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Christmas in Central Canada 2025 – Les Aventures Ligouriennes

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Sunrise. Photo by MH

The eating area/lounge in morning light. Photo by MH

Jan 2 – We had a chill morning, before going out and grabbing a quick lunch at a small Tim Hortons. Then we went to the dog sledding place. This was kind of our big tourist event for the trip. I’ve certainly never been dog sledding, and it’s not really a thing in Europe. The receptionist lady was from France, which was cool. She helped us get the right gear, snow pants and outer snow boots as well as a helmet/goggles and also snow gloves for me. Putting on the pants and boots felt like putting on a space suit. :3 Continue reading

Christmas in Central Canada 2025 – Québec City 2

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Dec 29 – I slept a bit better that night. The sick people were gone for one thing (though the damage had been done). We had grocery store bagels for breakfast with red pepper hummus and havarti cheese and cucumber. The toaster had one slot broken so Tharash nearly set one half of his bagel on fire. The weather wasn’t that bad, so we went to the lower old town, stopping in on the way at Notre-Dame.

The seminary attached to Notre-Dame; Google tells me it’s now a University School of Architecture. Photo by MH

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