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Healthy and Safe Vacationing Together, Here in Québec!
Now that summer is in full swing and that travellers are responding to our invitation to say Bonjour Québec, the Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec would like to reiterate the importance of complying with the current sanitary guidelines, to ensure our collective health and safety, particularly the obligation to wear masks in closed public spaces […]
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Irish visitors celebrate Coollattin connections during plaque unveiling
It was a long way from home and yet, 19 Irish visitors had a homecoming of sorts this week. The delegation from south County Wicklow, south of Dublin, have been visiting Smiths Falls and vicinity for the past few days, staying until Sunday, July 2, but on June 28, came to a place of familiar […]
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In the summer of 1847, a version of hell came to Grosse Île.
No place in Canada represents the life-changing crucible of immigration better than Grosse Île. From 1832 to 1937, this small island in the St.-Lawrence River 48 kilometres east of Quebec City served as a quarantine station where immigrants to Canada were screened for disease. More than four million mostly Europeans passed through the station, with […]