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town along the Ouareau River,
leading to the picturesque
Dorwin Falls.

20
Terrebonne
@ g @ n 3645 Queen
Street; 1 800 363 2788
In 2001, three communities
northwest of Montreal –
Lachenaie, La Plaine, and
Terrebonne – officially merged
Part of the Sucrerie de la Montagne, a to form the city of Terrebonne.
traditional sugar shack in a maple forest Lachenaie and Terrebonne
itself are the oldest sectors,
both founded in the 1670s,
tour includes an explanation though a fire in 1922 engulfed
18 "'\= of the maple syrup-making many of the original buildings.
Sucrerie de la process, which is generally The real gem here is the Île-
Montagne thought to have originated des-Moulins, a pre-industrial
with the Aboriginal peoples. complex of living history
⌂ 300 Chemin St-Georges, They later imparted their with water-powered mills for
Rigaud £ # Year round;
times vary, check website secrets to European settlers, grinding grain, carding wool,
∑ sucreriedelamontagne. whose traditional methods and sawing lumber. One of
com are still in use today. the biggest buildings is the
three-floor factory that was
This Quebec Heritage site the first large-scale bakery in
is set in a 123-acre (50-ha) 19 Canada. Built by the Northwest
maple forest on top of Rigaud Company in 1803, it made the
Mountain near Rang Saint- Joliette ship’s biscuits that sustained
Georges. It is entirely devoted @ n 500 Rue Dollard; the voyageurs who paddled
to the many delights of (450) 759 5013 west every year to trade for
Quebec’s most famous furs for the company.
commodity, the maple tree Two Catholic priests are
and its produce (p294). The responsible for turning
Sucrerie features a recon- this industrial town on
structed 19th-century sugar L’Assomption River into a
shack, where collected maple cultural center. In the 1920s,
sap is distilled and boiled in Father Wilfrid Corbeil founded
large kettles to produce the the Musée d’Art de Joliette,
internationally renowned whose collection ranges from
syrup. More than 20 rustic medieval relig ious art to
buildings house a fine bakery, modern works. In 1978, Father
a general store, and cozy cabins Fernand Lindsay started the
for overnight guests. The Festival International de
heart of the complex is a huge Lanaudière, a series of summer
500-seat restaurant that concerts by some of the world’s
serves traditional banquets of best-known musicians.
ham, pea soup, baked beans, The nearby town of Rawdon,
pork rinds, and pickles, as well 11 miles (18 km) west, has a
as dozens of maple-based deserved reputation as a place
products. Folk music accom- of great natural beauty. Trails
panies the nightly feast. The wind away from the small

The Sucrerie features a reconstructed 19th-
century sugar shack, where collected maple
sap is distilled and boiled in large kettles to
produce the internationally renowned syrup.

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