Monday, July 31, 2006




The Locks at Saint Anne de Bellevue.

We have driven past St. Anne de Bellevue a few times going back and forth to Montreal and thought it a very pretty spot. We took our bikes in - it's about 20 minutes east of where we're staying. It is a quaint town and home to a College - can't remember the name, and a campus of McGill. The locks here are to get boats past a section of rapids, rather than through a height difference in the water.

As an aside, we found out why they used to call Ontario, Upper Canada and Quebec, Lower Canada. Quite literally, the St. Lawrence River rises approx. 70 feet between Montreal and Kingston. I always thought it was geographically mixed up!!

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