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Article: Travel: 48 hours in Quebec; Gill Williams chills her boots in Canada's hippest city.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 20, 2002
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Byline: Gill Williams
Friday lunchtime
We start our stay with a horse-drawn cart trip in Old Quebec. Once we'd have been met at gunpoint at the gate by French settlers defending the city against the besieging English. Today, we're welcome visitors to the Canadian city protected as a world heritage site. And there's good reason to look after this old town - it's the loveliest in North America, ringed by stone walls like a medieval French city. This is not surprising as Quebec was built by the French. People here still speak French so a phrase book comes in ...
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