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 built as a school 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 embroidered items have survived to this day. When Quebec was sieged 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.

  • Ursuline Monastery
  • Their chapel inside the building

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.

  • Assumption Cathedral
  • 125 Stained glass windows

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.

  • Moulin seigneurial de Pointe-du-Lac
  • Building built in 1765
  • Welcome !
  • Flour making stuff
  • Sawmill upstairs
  • Outside on the grounds and there are trails you can walk

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…

14 thoughts on “Eastern Canada, Here we Come – Trois Riviere, Quebec -2025 – Part 2”

  1. Wow! I would love to turn my camera loose on the church, Cathedral! Such beautiful architecture both inside and out. The flour mill would also be a great photo op as you know! That’s a long time away from home, I couldn’t be away that long, Susan. I have big time enjoyed this entire series, thank you for sharing!

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    1. I am so glad you enjoyed my posts on this trip John. Quebec is a beautiful province and lots of great architecture and history. Yes it is a long time to be away, I’m always glad to get home. We know people who have sold everything and travel full time, I couldn’t do that so this is a compromise!

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      1. That’s a great compromise! I’ve thought about selling everything and purchasing a top notch travel van but can”t “pull the trigger” on that! My sister has a great travel van.

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      3. No, she has a home on the lake that we grew up on and lives there year round but uses the van for extended visits to northern Michigan to see one of her daughters and other places.

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  2. The cathedral and chapel here are beautiful and I like the stone and architecture of the Moulin seigneurial de Pointe-du-Lac. It is holding out very well, having been built in 1765. It looks very scenic outside the sawmill as well. I enjoyed seeing this tour of my native land, to places I will never get to see. I will look forward to the trio of countries you visited in Europe next. I have only been to England, having spent one week there in 1979.

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    1. Quebec is a great province. I mentioned to someone else that it is full of history and beautiful architecture. It’s so amazing how some buildings, or items, survive for so long! They can’t even control potholes in the roads now ! lol

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      1. I follow a UK blogger and occasionally he does posts showing some architectural venue he has visited – buildings are already old and will outlast all of us combined and still be standing. We had a schoolbus go off the road yesterday because the road was so pothole-laden that he swerved to avoid them and ended up in a piece of the road that just gave way and he ended up in the ditch. There were a few injuries to the kids, but nothing serious, but this is the second time this has happened in that area. Our Governor ran in 2018 with a slogan to “fix the d*mn roads!” She ran again four years ago – same slogan. But we still have a ton of bad roads. She is term-limited now, but says our Michigan State Flower is the orange construction barrel.

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      2. Funny but not funny……..the bus and kids are sad, I’m glad everyone was okay but the Michigan State Flower comment was funny! Every spring they do spring up like wildflowers lol

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      3. I went to Heritage Park today because they are getting ready to do this major construction project … when they did other part of this same road I took an alternate route, but on Facebook local forums, people are saying my alternate route is worse than where they plan to fix! I like going there, so I’ll probably drive way out of my way to double-back and get there without damaging the car. I just got new tires and alignment in November.

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