{"id":10754,"date":"2022-07-18T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=10754"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:49:07","slug":"visiting-quebec","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/visiting-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been to Montreal twice as an adult. The first time in the late 1980s and the second time in 2009.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My first visit was to attend an Esperanto gathering. From my visit, I mostly remember the Tam-Tams, the Pie-IX subway station, and the hundreds of canes and crutches left in the chapel of Saint Joseph&#8217;s Oratory. I remember some beautiful walks in the neighbourhood, using my poor high school French in stores, and the August heat and humidity. I also remember asking the friend I was staying with about the motto on Quebec licence plates, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Je me souviens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He explained some of the subtle meanings of the phrase, which translates as \u201cI remember,\u201d and I tried to understand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My second visit was also to attend a conference, this time the National Campus and Community Radio Association\u2019s annual conference, held this particular year at McGill University. During this visit, I had less time to explore the city, but I had some fun taking pictures at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/en\/lhn-nhs\/qc\/canallachine\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lachine Canal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/memento.heritagemontreal.org\/en\/site\/silo-no-5\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silo #5<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had forgotten until recently that I visited Quebec with my family in the early 1970s, too and that we spent some time in Quebec City during that visit. My dad recently gave me some digitised slides of the trip, including this one of me, aged about 6, in front of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-cite.com\/en\/businesses\/parc-de-la-chute-montmorency\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Montmorency Falls<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is almost a hundred feet taller than Niagara Falls in Ontario.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think I\u2019m due for another visit to Quebec sometime soon!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Catherine at Montmorency Falls\u00a0by L. Fisher<br \/>\n<em><strong>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10758,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[63],"class_list":["post-10754","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/10754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=10754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}