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Article: Quebec's Charlevoix region the cradle of Canada's tourist industry.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- December 6, 2004
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Byline: Tom Uhlenbrock
LA MALBAIE, Quebec _ At first glance, the colors of the tidy village homes and farmhouses lining the road seemed gaudy _ pumpkin orange, school-bus yellow, fire-engine red.
But when viewed within the backdrop of the Canadian autumn, they blended in perfectly with the fiery patchwork of birches, maples and aspens. A harmony between nature and culture, almost like camouflage.
The homes sit on the two-lane highway that runs along the undulating strip of land between the St. Lawrence River on the south and the Laurentian Mountains on the north in a rural region of Quebec called Charlevoix.
Quebec means "where the ...