We leave Gaspe, QC this morning with a gray sky and some drizzles coming down on us. Our plan today is to follow the shoreline of the Bay of Gaspe and the the Gulf of St. Lawrence and to cross into the province of New Brunswick. The coast line is magnificent as it has been everyday up here, and one cove after the other is more beautiful. Especially Perce, QC is impressive because of the rock formation at its coast and worth a stop. By lunch time the sun is strong enough to have burned away the clouds and we have a clear sky and temps have risen to the lower 50th. We take it easy and enjoy the coast line, and call it the day when we cross the Restigouche River Estuary into the province of New Brunswick. We stop in Campbellton, NB and do some town sightseeing, enjoy the local brewery and drift slowly into the evening.
Coastal view of Perce, QC
Wood carving on house front in Perce, QC
The other us of drift wood
Crossing into new Brunswick over the Restigouche River Estuary
Salmon Boulevard in Campbellton, NB
Memorial for The Grand Derangement
Scottish Heritage Monument, Campbellton, NB
And as we say "Au revoir" to the province of Quebec and enter the English speaking province of New Brunswick I can't help to observe that French heritage changes to Scottish heritage, and yet both are so connected to each other that it makes you wonder what would have become of New France or New Brunswick if the other wouldn't have been present. Which builds the perfect bridge to my todays quote in the light of some politicians being enticed to alter our history books.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians." - George Lucas, American filmmaker and philanthropist
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