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EAST CANADA In August 1996 we flew to Toronto, from there we made a 4 week trip with a rental car. We drove through a part of Canada and through a part of north-east USA. Ontario  We flew with KLM to Toronto, at the airport we collected our rental car. Toronto, is the capital of Ontario, a modern city with many large building in the center of the city. 
In the Skydome, a great covered stadium, we visited an american football match with the Toronto Argonauts. And even if you don't know the rules of the game it is worth visiting. There is so much happening on and of the field just couldn't stop looking and enjoying. The Argonauts won so the mood of the other spectators in the stadium was good.  Casa Loma is a sort of a castle built by the rich Sir Henry Mill Pellatt in 1911. It took 3 years to built and costed $3.500.000. Within 10 years he had some financial mishaps and he had to leave the house. It was getting a ruin when a foundation bought the castle from the city and started to renovate it.  Today everything in and outside is looking as posh at it was before. 
 280 km north of Toronto you will find the Petroglyphs Provincial Park. The highlight there is rockart by the Algonquin indians. The rock art is 500 - 1000 year old. The Algonquin still come to this sacred place to perform their ceremonies. When they have ceremonies here, the park is closed to the public.  Along the St Lawrence river is the city of Kingston. In the 18th century a fort was built here to protect the city for attacks from the water. There ever came an enemie and the fort was never used for this purpose. It became a place to educate soldiers. Today you can visit the fort. In peak season there are shows here. QUEBEC  Quebec is the name of the state and the naam of the capital city. The city Quebec is not the largest city of the state that is Montreal. Coming from Ontario north you will first pass Montreal, a big modern city with not many interesting places. 
On to Quebec city. A nice city with small streets and old buildings. At the entrance gate are some carriage wich you rent, but it is easy to walk there. No big distances.  Around the city is an embankment from which you have great views, from the city and StLawrence river. 
Driving up north we saw the best pictures...   In autumn there are many whales swimming in the mouth of the StLawrence river in search for food. There are boattrips to see the whales. We saw many different species, and we regretted it the boattrip was only 3 hours.   New Brunswick In New Brunswick they are speaking two languages. A large number of people speak french, and some speak english. There is no clear border between a french and english area. Even in one city not everybody speaks the same language. The french speakers call themselves Acadienne. And most are very proud of their heritage. Now and then one sees the french flag with the yellow star of Acadia. 
In the 'Village Historique Acadien' life is portrait as it was in the 19th century. In the
openair museum you can see how farmers and citizens lived.Ofcourse the english speaking community has its own museum: Kings Landing. This also about life in the 19th century. Both museums have a joint venture. When you show the entrance ticket to the other museum you get a discount.  Throughout New Brunswick you will find covered bridges from the early 1900's. This bridge is in Malone, built in 1910 and is 18 meter long. 
The major attraction in New Brunswick is the difference between low and high tide. In the Bay of Fundy the difference is 18 meter in height. At Moncton the river runs dry at low tide, at high tide a tidal wave is coming up river to 30 kilometer inland.  The harbour of Alma is dry at low tide and boats are put on wooden logs to prevend them from falling over. Lobstertime 
 Lobstertraps are seen everywhere and in every harbour lobster is brought in. Read more about this trip and come with us to North East USA |