This is my fourth visit to Canada — but here's what it's like to visit Quebec for the first time

A thrilling journey through Québec province takes Yvonne Gordon from historic cities to dazzling wilderness in one hypnotic trip
This is my fourth visit to Canada — but here's what it's like to visit Quebec for the first time

The splendid autumnal foliage enjoyed from the top of Saint-Sauveur mountain in Quebec

It's a dark evening when we encounter Marie Rivière in the courtyard of a historic building in Old Québec. Chatty, she shares with us that she
originally moved here from La Rochelle in France, met her husband, and they went on to have six children together.

It’s only a few minutes in, when she mentions that she has been dead for 322 years, that it clicks. She’s a ghost.

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