Along Rt. 132, the view of the St. Lawrence (looking north from the south bank) from somewhere east of St. Croix.

In the Jacques Cartier Provincial Park, thirty miles or so north of Québec, the Jacques Cartier River flows along, intersecting with several other rivers as it goes.

A calmer section of the same river. The dots on it are canoes, and the dark shadow is the @%&^! camera strap.

A neat section of the river: note that just upriver it's as smooth as glass and then, suddenly, it becomes a rapids.

The extremely neat 'n' tidy port-o-potties, fancy doors, gold doorknobs, and all.

From the Plains of Abraham and the Cidatel at the top of the hill in Québec City, a view of the south bank of the St. Lawrence and some of the roofs and docks of the lower portion of Vieux-Québec. You can see part of the wall that fortified the city to the left of the road. This is a narrow part of the river.

Looking back west across Battlefield Park and towards the new part of the city. The green-roofed buildings are part of the Parliament Hill buildings.

The Hôtel du Parlement, built between 1877 and 1886, which houses the National Assembly. It sits on, predictably, Parliament Hill. The front of it is dotted with statues of famous historic people, including Frontenac. This is where we learned who he was, from reading the French informational plaques telling who each statue was (you can see them in the picture: they're the three little white squares in front of the stairs).

From a different angle, so that you can see one of the many statues and monuments the city boasts of. I think it's of Honoré Mercier, who was Premier of Québec in the late 1800s and wanted autonomy for Québec. We were mainly amused by his boldly gesturing stance and the half-clothed peasants that are clustered beneath him.

The wall that circles part of the city makes for quite a few of these gates (portes). This is the Porte Saint-Louis which is just across a traffic circle from Parliament Hill. Continuing off to the right, out of the picture, is the way up to the Plains of Abraham and the Citadelle.

The wall of the Citadelle, on which construction began in 1820. Thirty years or so later, it was complete. Now the Citadelle houses a museum.

And here is the inside of the Citadelle. On the top of the far wall you can see little stone indentations in which old cannons sit.

At the end of the Avenue Saint-Denis (Montréal has a Rue Saint-Denis, too) you can see where the Ilé d'Orleans (far right) ends and the river gets even wider. This is looking roughly north and east. On the left you can see the top of the Château Frontenac, the tallest visible building, visible from almost anywhere in the city.

Still from the Citadelle, looking more directly back at the city. You can see, on the right, above the docks and Vieux-Port the wooden walkway called Terrasse Dufferin, which runs into the Promenade des Gouverneurs, another walkway, this time one with stairs (309 of them, to be exact), that goes up along the wall of the Citadelle, which is how we arrived at the top of the hill to begin with. (We'd parked in the Château Frontenac, walked down Mont-Carmel to the Terrasse Dufferin, and on to the Promenade.)