Keybeck as the locals call their city--not Quebec!



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 First to answer Kimber's inquiry: did we like the fries, curd and gravy? Yes it was tasty and comforting. The test of a true curd is if it squeaks as you bite into it. Our curd squeaked which means it is a fresh curd. Could I live without poutine in my life? Yes most definitely! I tasted it, I liked it and now I can die and say I have had the best poutine in all of Canada!

We woke up to the alarm clock this morning so that we could meet up for our 8:00 AM shore excursion. This morning we went to see St. Anne de Beaupre (beautiful prairie), the oldest pilgrimage site in North America. St. Anne is the mother of Mary which means she is also the grandmother of Jesus.

View of St. Anne's from side

This basilica and church was first built in the 1600's by two fishermen who had safely made it to shore. Unfortunately they were fishermen and not architects and they built the church too close to the water and during a storm and high tides it was washed away. The church we now see is the 5th one built and it is a church that the world built during the Great Depression. Countries in Europe had heard that it had burned down once again and many artists and architects came over and gave their time and money and trade to rebuild the church. What we see now is a result of many, many donations and efforts from all over the world.




  The doors to the basilica were taken from a local church that could no longer survive. Even though most of the country and province are Catholics, not enough are practicing and the churches couldn't survive without its members. One of the local Quebec churches had to shut its doors but donated the beautiful copper doors of their church to St. Anne's.

Inside St. Anne's Bascilia--Mass about to start

Front of St. Anne's



View of Montmorency Falls from bus window



View of Falls while on a suspension bridge looking down



Another view of falls looking down and
out over the St. Lawrence



One of the very large bronze doors
that we donated by a local out of business church

 It is a beautiful church with mosaics and carvings that represent all who have contributed to it.

From there we went to Montmorency Falls, larger falls than Niagara Falls. Print this post