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EXPERIENCE Quebec Province Visitors photographing the

National de la Mauricie

road between Saint-Mathieu burnished fall colors of Parc
the late 19th-century red-
12 "'-= and Saint-Jean-des-Piles. From brick-and-wood-frame homes
Parc National here, there is also a drive with of lakeside villages such as
de la Mauricie good views of the narrow Lac Georgeville and North Hatley,
Wapizagonke valley. With and in the resort city of Magog
⌂ Off Hwy 55 N Shawinigan
£ Shawinigan # Daily trout and pike in the lake, at the northern end of the lake.
Benedictine monks from
the area is an angler’s delight.
∑ pc.gc.ca
France bought one of the lake’s
Campers, hikers, canoeists, most beautiful sites in 1912
and cross-country skiers love 13 and established the Abbaye
this 207-sq-mile (536-sq-km) Saint-Benoît-du-Lac. Today
stretch of forest, lakes, and Lac Memphrémagog the monks produce cider and
pink Precambrian granite. @ g Magog n 2911 a celebrated blue cheese
The park includes part of the Milletta, Magog; www. called l’Ermite. They are also
Laurentian Mountains (p300), tourisme-memphremagog. renowned for Gregorian chant,
which are part of the Canadian com and visitors can hear them
Shield, and were formed sing mass in the abbey church.
between 950 and 1,400 million This area belongs to the
years ago. La Mauricie’s rugged Eastern Townships, or the
beauty is also access ible to “Garden of Quebec” that 14
motorists, who can take the stretches from the Richelieu
River valley to the Maine, Richelieu Valley
New Hampshire, and Vermont n 1080 Chemin des
borders in the US. Set among Patriotes Nord, Mont Saint-
rolling hills and farmland, in a Hilaire; www.vallee-du-
landscape that is part of the richelieu.ca
Appalachians, the Townships
are among Canada’s top This fertile valley follows the
maple-syrup producers. Richelieu River from Lake
Lac Memphrémagog itself Champlain to the confluence
is long, narrow, and surrounded with the Saint Lawrence River.
by mountains. It even boasts Fort Chambly, also known as
its own monster, a creature Fort Saint Louis, in the indus-
named Memphré, first spotted trial town of Chambly, is the
in 1798. The lake’s southern best preserved of a series
quarter dips into the state of of buildings that the French
Vermont, so it is no surprise erected to defend this vital
that the British Loyalists flee- waterway from Dutch and
A sculpture in Lac ing the American Revolution British attack. It was built from
Memphrémagog of the were this region’s first settlers. solid stone in 1711 to replace
lake’s mythical monster Their influence can be seen in the original wooden
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