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Milan, Italy. Richard M Trap. . . . Canada, My country.

My country is not a country it’s winter. (Almost 6 months a year)

I create this page because a lot of people want to know where I come from and what append before we arrived in Italy. Begin by the best part, where I was born. MONTREAL (I was really born in Montreal-North, a little town on the Montreal's Island, with 100,000 peoples, but this is another web page, for the moment click on the logo to see something interesting !!!). The major pictures of the old Metropolis of Canada are from post card. Now Toronto, is the Canadian Metropolis, because of its phenomenal growth in the 80’s. I have some pictures and postal card of Toronto at the end. By the way, the background is the Frontenac Castle in Quebec. I have a section on Quebec after Montreal. Now I’ve changed the way I do my web page. The pictures are smaller then it’s faster to upload the page and you just have to click on the picture to see them full size, and more pictures on the subject. The text follows the picture, and you can go to the next picture,like a slideshow to see all the page.

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1 This view of Montreal is nice. We can see, downtown, Jacques-Cartier Bridge( famous guy in 1534), St-Helen’s Island (it was built with the surplus from the construction of the subway in the 60’s. This is a post card. Montreal Island have a population around 2 millions peoples. The nature is always present. The mountain with the autumn color is the Royal Mount, with natural trees, not like in Europe with their plant forest. The SMOG isn’t part of Montreal life. The car traffic begins to be a problem, but nothing compares to Milan.	2 This view of Montreal by night is a post card, and it’s nice. The highest building in Montreal is around 45 floors nothing compare to the US town with their 100 floors and more. Montreal by night, is one of the most secure town in North America. You can walk from Jacques-Cartier Bridge to Westmount, go dancing, go to theater, shopping, see the underground city, the subway or only take a coffee at 4h00am...
3 Montreal have 3 professionals sports teams, the Canadian(National Hockey League, NHL, champions of the Stanley Cup 24 times. A World Record for the number of championship by the same team), the Expos (National Baseball League, the division’s final, is the best that the team done) and the Alouettes (Canadian Football League, they win a lot of championship call the Grey Cup). The stadium you saw there is the dream of the Expos , to have a stadium downtown, it’s not done yet(Spring 2000). I have to admit, it’s a nice dream. If you click on the stadium you’ll see more detail and all the stadium of the others teams. If you click on the team’s logo, you have a direct link to the professional’s teams.	4 A small wink passing on these two chimneys which were a part of the landscape until 1988. Attend the destruction of one, the other one had not wanted to fall during my 6 hours wait on Saputo's roof. When they blew up the base, the left chimney went up and fell again on its base without falling!!!
5 This last photo, take on Internet, do the promotion of Montreal as a cruise destination since few years. They carried a lot of tourists every years. Finally we can take the boat in the direction of the Atlantic Ocean. On our way we gonna stop at Quebec City. A marvelous fortifies city with the taste of Europe. A little French speaking environment. They still speak the French of Moliere of 17th century. Like most town in the province of Quebec. But Quebec is the most French speaking place and has the most flow of tourists.	6 If you arrive by boat in Canada, you’ll have to pass by Quebec before arriving in Montreal. And sometime the boat can't make it to Montreal because of the two nice bridge.(they’re not very high). You’ll see the white bridge, it’s the Pierre Laporte Bridge, in honor to a depute kill in October 1970. The other one, all green, it’s the old Quebec bridge. One of the rare bridge in the world, that the middle keep the bridge from going down. They’ve took three times to built this bridge. He keeps falling every time they put the middle. It’s was to heavy for the side, that’s what they say. He didn’t have any official name.
7 This is a family picture at the Quebec’s Carnival, my brother Michel, his girlfriend Johanne, my wife Nathalie and I in front of the Ice’s Palace. The Carnival stand in February, allows to make several outsides activities, sculpting on ice, crossed the St-Laurence River in boat, to drink caribou (local drink which would wake a dead). Also 2 parades, with body and clarion, fantasy car, public entertainers, the Carnival Snowman, his queen and her duchesses. During the parade of the low city, temperature can achieve -40C, not bad!!	8 Old Quebec is magnificent, with the style of the old continents. His castle, the fortifications, his old houses, its old restaurants, and its winter Carnival. Nature is really on its highlight. The park of the plains of Abraham which extend from the Castle, along the terrace Dufrin and along the Diamond Cap. Stairs which allow to go towards the Bass - city which is magnificent. So a funicular, but we advises you to take the stairs to go down, more amazing !! To go back up it can be a good alternative.
9 You can notice the style of the houses of old Quebec. Houses constructs in 17th century. Preserved in their original states. Old Quebec seems to be the copy of the city of Blois, in the Loire region, in France. Place at the feet of the Cap Diamond, old Quebec counts several good restaurants, a old church and several commerce. Near the port, you can take the ferry towards Levis, to be able to have an open view of the city, its fortress and its castle. The suite of old Quebec, with the streets in old pavements. The terraces from June till September, sometime until October. The port of Quebec allows the cruise boat to come to make stopover. When we leave old Quebec and old ports, we can notice the central station. The old central station was restored in the 80’s. Now, the train and bus arrive at the same station, very useful for transfer. If we continue eastward, we arrive in the region of the Cote de Beaupre.	10 The Cote de Beaupre, region east of the city of Quebec, is a place very colored in autumn, especially the Mount St-Anne. The basilica St-Anne in the region is a place of cult in summer for Montagnais (Amerindians) and the Catholics of everywhere in America. St-Joachim-de-Montmorency is a little villages of 5 000 souls, one of the oldest cities of the region. With the church from the beginning of 17th century, always in very good shape. The picture was taken by the Orleans’s island, a heaven corner at 10 minutes of Quebec city. I lived in the region about 4 year, just at feet of the mountain. If you look for the tranquility, it is the region, after Perkins...
11 Here is the view, in April when I leave in the morning from Beaupre, when I took the road to go to work, not bad. The Subaru Justy 4 X 4, was welcome in this region. I have made 165 000 km in 3 years, with this 3 cylinders ECVT.	12 It’s us! Try to guess where we are, if you’re able! If you click on us you will see where we were. We shall be there in image soon.

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