No rain today! Big walking day. We found pastries and coffee around the corner at Boulangerie Louise. There seems to be a bakery or restaurant every 20 feet in this town and they are well attended. our goal was to see Chateau Ramezay which is a museum of Montreal history. It is about 2 miles from our AirB&B but we meandered all over the neighborhoods. Many streets are pedestrian only so lots of people out walking their dogs, sipping coffee with friends. We stopped at St Viateur Bagel bakery which has been in Montreal since the 1950's. We got a half dozen tobring back to Jake & Nath (but only 4 made it back?).
Walked to Chinatown to relive old times talking Jacob out of buying Nija swords, resisted the almond cookies we used to get, and ended in the old city with the coblestone streets and stone buildings. The museum if very French centric but the quick version is Jacques Cartier came in 1535 then Samuel de Champlain came in 1603, the British take over in 1760, Ben Franklin tries to talk Canada into helping with the American Revolution in 1775 (he lived in Montreal for half a year or so), and it's been breweries, banking and bagels since then. And hockey of course..
We grabbed some Montreal smoked meat for lunch to check all the Montreal boxes, caught the Metro back up to our place and then we all walked the neighborhood with the dog. Beautiful green parks, a dog park so Tyler could blow off some steam, Poke bowls for dinner outside and back to the ranch. Jacob has to catch a train early in the morning to Toronto for work so we had drinks on their back deck then home.
Tomorrow we head to Ottawa!
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