Best Places to Eat

¨ L’Express (p249)

¨ Liverpool House (p248)

¨Manoir Hovey (p268)

¨Chez Boulay (p283)

¨ Vent du Large (p325)

Best Places to Sleep

¨ Auberge Saint-Antoine (p281)

¨Hôtel Gault (p244)

¨Maison Historique James Thompson (p279)

¨Hôtel Le Germain (p246)

¨ Auberge Festive Sea Shack (p311)

When to Go

Dec & Jan Head to Mont-Tremblant – one of North America’s best ski hills.

Feb Bundle up and join in the frigid festivities in Québec City’s fete of the year, Carnaval.

Jul Montréal’s summer-long party gets under way with the Fes-tival International de Jazz.

QuébecWhy Go?Québec truly feels like a country within a country, an island of linguistic and cultural identity floating on the greater Canadian sea. Of course, this is Canada, with all the inter-play of vast wilderness and cosmopolitanism implied, but Québec’s embrace of terroir, its language, its passion for everything, from winter snow to wine to gastronomy, is something else, an ‘else’ that encompasses identities both distinctly North American and European.

Montréal and Québec City are bustling metropolises with a perfect mixture of sophistication and playfulness, and history-soaked preserved quarters tucked away around town. The rustic allurements of old Québec are scattered among the Eastern Townships, and produce from bucolic Charlevoix graces the tables of the region’s stellar restau-rants. Past these creature comforts is the raw outdoors: the jagged coasts of the unblemished Gaspé Peninsula, the vast taiga and tundra of the North Shore, and the windswept iso-lation of the Îles de la Madeleine.

Includes ¨Montréal ..................... 229The Laurentians ......... 258Québec City ............... 272Charlevoix ...................291Saguenay ...................296South Shore ...............302Gaspé Peninsula ........308North Shore ................319Îles de la Madeleine ... 324Far North .................... 327The Outaouais ........... 329

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1 Montréal (p229) Drinking up the nightlife in this happening city.

2 Québec City (p272) Savoring the unparalleled culture, history and charm of this walled city.

3 Tadoussac (p296) Getting sprayed by whales in the Saguenay River fjord.

4 Baie St Paul (p291) Soaking up the artsy vibe and sampling local delicacies in this attractive, little town.

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7 Parc National du Bic (p306) Getting back to nature in this spectacular place.

8 Mingan Archipelago National Park (p322) Sea kayaking amid these remote, sculpted islands.

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