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Location Date Edmundston
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Today was moving day. We moved from PEI west making our way toward Huntsville, Ontario where we will visit for a few days with friends at their lake cottage. (It's really a 4 bedroom house, but they call it a cottage.) So, we left Charlottetown at 8:20 AM and 68 degrees. Before leaving the area, we decided to check out Rocky Point, which is a peninsula on the other side of Charlottetown Harbour. When we stopped to take photos, several cows made it clear that they wanted our attention, so we spent a little time visiting with them. Beamer thought they were interesting until he decided that barking was a more appropriate response to the fact that they were approaching our car. We then drove along the Gulf of St. Laurence on our way back to the Confederation Bridge. After stopping for a few minutes at a gift shop so that Steve could buy a hat, we paid the 46 CAD or $38 US toll and got to make the 7 mile crossing in a dense fog. We never saw any of the gulf at all today. And when we hit land on the other side, whala, the sun was shining and the air was clear. Well, we saw in 2 days ago on the way over so it was what it was.
We made it a point to stop at Steve’s favorite convenience store (the one that stiffed him for $5.00), and take a photo of the sign. Steve definitely wants to remember this place. See the photo.
Early on our trek today we gained a passenger…a common house fly. He entered the car and refused to exit despite my repeated coaxing. I did everything I could think of, but he would not leave. And my attempts to do him in were unsuccessful, too. He came all the way to Edmundston with us. Must have wanted a free ride to visit friends.
The drive today was otherwise uneventful. Most of it was through thick forest land…nothing but trees…nice healthy trees, but nonetheless, just trees. Eventually, when we approached the border of Maine, the road opened up and we could see hills and passages cut through the limestone to allow for the highway to pass through. We turned north and followed the border of Maine for miles. We were an elbow away from Houlton, then Presque Isle, then Van Buren and finally Madawaska, always sandwiched between Maine and the St. John River. This river originates in northwestern Maine and travels some 400+ miles across Maine and New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy at Saint John, NB.
We arrived at our hotel in Edmundston, NB around 4:30 PM and got settled in for the night. Tomorrow we will cross into Quebec and travel all the way to Ottawa. On the way I will pass through Riviere-du-Loup, a small farming town near the Gulf of St. Lawrence where my grandmother was born and raised before immigrating to Maine as a young wife and mother. My head will be outside of the car as we pass through taking in the sights of this place where I still have family and my cousin, Jeannine, resides. I have never met her, though we have corresponded a number of times. Perhaps we will have time to visit with her next time through.
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Sharon Gauert Looks like beautiful country. Hope you enjoyed PEI; we loved our day there. Did you have lobster? Had the best lobster bisque.
Jeannine Murray, a name scottish! I write a book 600 pages Des Écossais à Rivière-du-Loup et leurs descendants 1763-2004, in French! Sorry! The first governor of our country after the conquest of Canada by the English name was James Murray. The same James Murray bought the lordship of Rivière-du-Loup in 1763. His nephew Richard Murray lived in Rivière-du-Loup in the 1760s ...
sheflysx Nope. Had lobster in Cape Cod.
sheflysx My husband is Stephen James Murray and his people came from Ireland. I asked him today if he thought his people might have come from Canada like mine. LOL
Jeannine Hello my cousin Jackie, I lived at Rivière-du-Loup. When you will leave Highway 185, you will take Highway 20 west. You hardly see the city ... Too bad, it's a beautiful city peite 20 000. To get home, he would have to leave the highway 185 and follow into the city streets that could lead you to the Pointe, Hayward street, the marina and the cross that can cross the St. Lawrence River (22 miles) to go to the North Shore. My house is the eighth from the ferry terminal. As you told me, I know you have little time because you have to leave Quebec and tomorrow you make Ontario. Next year, I expect you in my part of the country and also to thy paternal grandmother. Via Highway 20, you drive to Notre-Dame-du-Portage and St. Alexander Saint-André. If you feel like it, leave the motorway at the 2nd exit and turn right, you go down a hill watching the river and the Charlevoix mountains on the north shore right ahead and reach on Route 132. Turn left , drive to the village, continue to the end of the village, around 2000, you could see the house where grew your grandmother and my grandfather. The house and barn are currently under renovation ... maybe next year renovations are completed. From here you can continue on the 132to Kamouraska, Saint-Denis, La Pocatière where 132 joins Highway 20 but you can also reach Highway 20 before arriving at La Pocatière. I hope the sun will be there. Actually, it rains... Good road, my cousin!
Diane Thanks for sharing! It's fun to see the places you are visiting. Very much enjoyed the PEI and Antigonish blog. Way back around 1964, we had also gone to see the home of Anne of Green Gables. I bought the book and my mother and I went horseback riding. And, we went swimming. I remember that year the Gulf Stream somehow influenced the temperature of the ocean and it was very warm to swim in.
Rudy Martzke Jackie, great insight and details. Rudy and Mouse from Temecula, CA.
Norm used to visit/monitor a Grossman's Building Materials store in Presque Isle every other year...very far up in Maine...
Doris Bonneau DearJackie and Steve, John and I were delighted to reconnect with you in Maine at Bob Limoges 'last week. We wish you happy travels. I truly enjoyed your blog. Doris