Heritage Tour to Quebec
Heritage tour to Quebec
July 20-August 3, 2012
This round trip bus tour from Grand Forks, ND to Quebec City features stops at places of major historical interest and natural beauty, and wonderful arrangements each evening. Every day of distance travel (average 275 miles per day) ends with dinner around the tables of hosts and hostesses from Duluth, Minnesota to Sudbury, Ontario. After Sudury we visit Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Seven days in the province of Quebec introduce us to the homeland of the French of North America.
Destinations: 7/20 Grand Forks - Duluth; 7/21 Marquette, MI; 7/22 Sudbury; 7/23 Ottawa; 7/24 Montreal; 7/25 & 26 Trois-Rivières; 7/27 & 28 & 29 Quebec City; 7/30 Papineauville; 7/31 Sudbury; 8/1 Saint Ignace; 8/2 Duluth; 8/3 Grand Forks
Excitement, friendship and feelings which the tour generates are over the top. Meals range from picnics to fine casual dining; lodging is four star. From the Quebec Cabane à sucre (Sugar shack) with its traditional food, music, dance and songs to a jet ferry ride to Mackinac Island, or a tour of Montreal, or an evening walk along the cobble stone streets of Old Quebec this tour creates memories of the fascinating heritage of French North America, with its captivating contemporary life style. You will meet and talk with Franco-Americans, Franco-Ontarians, and Quebecois you will never forget. This is a tour that connects people to people for discovery, learning, and greater appreciation of who we are as North Americans.
Cost for the trip will be $ 1 800 per individual which includes all transportation by coach bus, double occupancy lodging in very fine hotels, approximately 30 meals out of 45 for the tour, ferry ride to Mackinaw Island, fees to most sites visited, and all gratuities for bagage handling.
To request a place on this tour please send your name, address, telephone number and number of persons in your party to: virgil.benoit@email.und.edu
By return mail we will ask you to tell us about your goals for the trip and will furnish you with other information. Please make your request as early as possible. Selection of travelers will be made on a first come basis. When the date arrives for confirmation we will ask you to confirm your initial request by making a refundable deposit of $ 500 per person in your group. All checks must be made out to IFM - UND.
You may also send your request to reserve a place to: Virgil Benoit, Box 8198 Department of Languages University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND 58202 as soon as possible.
Your host along the way for this 15 day tour will be Virgil Benoit, Professor of French at the University of North Dakota.
You can view a slide show of the 2009 Quebec Tour as well as hear comments from the travelers on this wonderful tour by going to: www.ifmidwest.org
We take no tourists, only travelers. The highest expectations of a traveler are to understand the people and places he/she meets. We do everything we can to make that happen.