Up early to blog more!
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| The Jacques Cartier Bridge. |
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| St. Joseph's Oratory - largest Church in Canada. |
St. Joseph is the Patron Saint of Canada and St. John the Baptist is the Patron Saint of Quebec.
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| View from Mount Royal. |
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| Olympic Stadium viewed from Mount Royal. |
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| Tallest Statue in Montreal - Georges-Etienne Cartier statue. |
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| Montreal Cross. |
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| Royal Victoria Hospital. |
The Royal Vic is shortly to be closed and a new hospital built. It is recognised as Quebec's major transplant centre.
We hopped off and had a brief look around Dorchester Square which was, at one time, a graveyard.
The paving in the square contains a number of crosses like this to acknowledge the people who had been buried there.
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| The Boer War Memorial. It is the only equestrian statue in Montreal. The horse is not mounted, but restrained. |
Lunch called so we went down to the Old Port and dined on a patio. On our way there and back, Jim took some more photos.
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| The Basilica. |
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| 1000 de la Gauchetiere - the tallest building in Montreal. |
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| St. Patrick's Basilica. |
This minor Basilica is known for its historic links to the Irish-Canadian community. According to the guide, there are 300,000 citizens of Irish descent in Montreal. It is the oldest English-speaking Roman Catholic Church in Montreal
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| Paul de Chomedey, sieur deMaisonneuve, founder of Montreal. |
Some metal sculptures in the original site of Hotel-Dieu, a hospital founded in 1645 by Jeanne Mance, the first nurse of New France.
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| Carving on a wall in Chinatown, Montreal. |
It was time to leave Montreal and start our 2-3 hour journey to our hotel outside Quebec City - a full day and it wasn't over yet!
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