I enjoyed very much this winter journey in Québec: so many nice places and so many interesting activities:
First of all the life in winter: Etienne Trudeau is a bike courier: he talks about the icy roads and also about the wet snow and enjoys making the deliveries (a good way to maintain a good health).
Laura Cherry , an educator, enjoys to go to the Mont-Royal and to do jogging with her shoes with crampons.
But in winter the people of Montréal can avoid the cold walking in the Réso : 32 kilometers of tunnels connecting 8 underground stations, two suburban trains stations and 60 areas of residential and commercial buildings.
Winter means for Tommy Ferland and his children Andy and Ethan ice hockey: in the garden there is a small skating rink where the children play every day in winter.
In the kindergarten Véronique Tremblay who cares for 7 children organizes every day a moment otside in which the children play in the snow.
Sébastien Johnson alias Majuscule is manager of the Boys-scouts centre and spend a good time with the children outside ("l'hiver on aime ça".
Then we discover the Parc Oméga, with Léonard Turgeon: reindeer, wild boars, foxes and moose. The manager Charles de Reinach shows also the wolves. They receive every year 300.000 visitors.
Winter in Québec means taking off the snow, the state is charge of the roads with their snow plow tractors: private companies take off the snow on the private grounds.
Dominique Claude Desjardins is in charge of the ice road between Oka and Hudson on the Ottawa River : the driver pay a toll for this crossing in winter.
At the end of the winter the twin brothers Félix and Samuel Samuel begin to collect the sap of the maple trees: besides they enjoy to play traditional music with friends (the tradition of the "veillées".
The people of Montréal have a great sense of humour: at "Le Bordel Comédie Club" Alex L'Evêque , a young humorist has his moment of humour, Alex has studied in the "École Nationale de l'Humour": Magali Saint-Vincent is beginning there her study under the supervision of Christelle Pare , the pedagocic manager of the school: about 80 % of the graduates have now jobs in radios, televisions or advertising companies.
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaël with Véronique Saumure (the beaver tail pastries, the Grande Roue, the sauna , the tasting of poutine and the ice skating moment), with Vanessa Quintart and Goulwen (the nice dog sled tour), with Geneviève Jodoin and Frédéric Boudreault at the Isle-aux-Coudres (the snow shoes tour, the music at La Fascine), with Rémi Aubin (the ice fishing in the fjord and the walk in the forest): very nice encounters with very nice Quebec men and women.