Old Montreal

Today we cruised around town and checked out some of the historical elements of the city. We started at Old Montreal and saw some neat stuff there! The blue bus is an Amphibus (how cool) as it drives around town doing tours and then cruises into the water and turns into a boat! I wanted to go for a ride but it was 30 bucks.

After Old Montreal we cruised over to our neighboorhood and refuelled with some delicious poutine! (it was a good thing I got lost running yesterday and ended up running for 1.5 hours!). Finally, we stumbled accross the oldest building in Montreal. This house was owned by Marguerite Bourgeoys and she housed the Filles du Roi (the Kings Girls) who came over in the late 1600s to marry the French-Canadian men. The Kings Girls were poor or orphaned Frenchwomen that didn't have dowrys. So, when they came to Canada they learned how to run a homestead and the King paid their dowrys when they married. Apparently the ratio was 12 men to 1 woman (a ratio that even Tom might not have been successful with).