July 26, 2024

Special Blogpost: Newfoundland

Greetings! We recently returned from a trip to Newfoundland (new-fun-LAND), an island that, along with the continental portion of Labrador, makes up the easternmost Province of Canada. This is the fourth Province (of ten) that we have visited. Below, you will find information from our trip. Newfoundland (which became the 10th Province of Canada in 1949) is an island, which is twice the size of New York, and has a population of 500,000 people, 200,000 of whom live in the capital of St. John’s and the surrounding area. Together with its continental counterpart, Labrador, this Province is three quarters the size of the state of Texas. It would take 11…

July 26, 2024

Special Blogpost: Montréal

Greetings! We recently returned from a trip to Montréal (mohn-tray-AHL), the largest city in the Canadian Province of Québec (kih-BEK). While we have been to Canada several times, I have decided to try to visit all ten Provinces in Canada. We have visited Ontario (Toronto) and British Columbia (Vancouver), and ventured to Québec during a trip during which we also visited a second Province (Newfoundland and Labrador), which has a separate blogpost entry. Below, you will find information from our trip. Montréal is an island, and has a population of about two million people. Eighty percent of the population (mostly people who live near the city center) is bilingual (French…