While New Brunswick is actually the only Canadian province that is officially bilingual, Québec is where you will find all signs, products and most people speaking French. I actually believe that we hear more French spoken here than when we were in Paris!
Here is an example of some of the bilingual signs we saw in New Brunswick:
Here are examples of signs in Québec. Remember that we are driving and really don't know any French!
Of course, all over Canada they use graphics on signs to help. That's if you can figure out the graphic and have time to look at all of them while driving!
How about fast food restaurants. We should be able to spot those easily, right? Unless they change the abbreviated name to represent the French words like Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) did.
A&W remains the same but is that sign telling me the drive-thru is open? And it looks like they have a burger with un goût indétrônable!
Old Québec is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. We took a tour to learn more about Old Québec. This picture is in the Lower Town and you can see the Upper Town above the end of the street.
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| Lower Town |
Fortunately there is a Funicular to get to the Upper Town easily where we could get a better look at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac.
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| Le Château Frontenac |
We did have a wonderful view of the St. Lawrence River from the Upper Town:
We managed to squeeze in a trip to Montmorency Falls in between raindrops.
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| Montmorency Falls |
We're leaving Québec City to spend a few days along the St. Lawrence River in a town called Trois-Rivières. We will continue to travel in the province of Québec for 2 more weeks!
