Eastern Canada, Here we Come – Trois Riviere, Quebec -2025 – Part 2

We went to the Ursuline monastery. It was $10 each to go through and it didn’t take very long but we still enjoyed what we learned and saw. In 1639, Marie de l’Incarnation and two other Ursuline nuns from France had this monastery build and even today, it’s an impressive teaching complex. They had a reputation for embroidery and they passed the teachings down for three centuries. Many of the items have survived to this day. When Quebec was seiged in 1759, the monastery was partly destroyed by shelling but because the nuns provided accommodations and medical care to the British, they were allowed to resume teaching.

We also walked over to the Cathedral of Assumption, construction of this building commenced in 1854. There are 125 stained-glass windows created by Guido Nincheri, recognized among the most beautiful in North America. It was a beautiful church.

I meant to mention, it was pretty rainy the whole time we were here but that doesn’t stop us ! I think it also was only 12-15 Celsius, not too warm for the summertime.

One last thing we did was to go to the Moulin seigneurial de Pointe-du-Lac. The building, built in 1765 are beautiful, I loved the architecture. It is a flour mill and woodworking shop. It was interesting to learn about the flour making process and the sawmill is just like it was way back when. They have trails to walk here as well but it was pouring down rain this day so we didn’t do the trails.

So that’s that. Our 2 1/2 month trip is done, we left 24 June and returned home 29 August. The drive home from Trois Rivieres to where we live was just over 5 hours and we were glad to pull into our driveway, it was a long day.

It was nice to go through my photos and do these posts as I had forgotten a lot of the things that we saw and what we did.

Thanks for staying with me during this trip and next Posts, I hope to be posting about our trip in May-June 2025 when we went to England, France and Belgium.

Until next time…