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Article: Snow secret - Head for Canada's unspoiled Gaspe Peninsula to enjoy winter sports.
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 13, 1997
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If you're looking for winter sports and outstanding winter scenery, follow the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River 200 miles east of Quebec City. Voila! You're on the Gaspe Peninsula, an unspoiled panorama of rolling hills, snowy pastures and woodsy cliffs, all built on an ancient landmass that dates to a time before there were any trees in North America.
Here is rural Quebec at its most scenic. Farm life hasn't changed very much here during the past hundred years. Tidy family farms cluster around little country villages, each crowned with a slender, silver church spire. Cattle peer from the doors of snug barns, their nostrils ...