-Day 1 Bonjour Québec
Travel to Québec City
Meet your tour director
Details: Québec city walk
French-speaking patrons enjoying croissants in cafes. Ornate church spires peeking out from within the city walls. Is this really North America? Explore the Old World grace of Quebec City with your Tour Director as you stride along 17th century cobblestone streets. Historical animation of Upper Town conducted by your Tour Director. Stops include the beautifully lit National Assembly, Dufferin Terrace, Chateau Frontenac, famous architecture such as Aux Anciens Canadiens, gates and walls of Vieux Quebec, rue du Tresor (artist’s street) and the most photographed cannon ball in Quebec.
Details: Dufferin Terrace
Navigate your way through the street performers, vendors and tourists on this landscaped promenade for one of the best views of the St. Lawrence River, Levis & Lower Town.
Details: Dinner
Enjoy a delicious meal inspired by the local cuisine.
Day 2 Québec City Landmarks
Breakfast
Details: Forts-et-Châteaux-Saint-Louis National Historic Site guided visit
Forts and Châteaux-Saint-Louis National Historic Site is a well-hidden secret. Located under the Dufferin Terrace in Old Quebec City, it reveals the remains of the residence and seat of power of the French and British governors from 1620 to 1834. Immerse yourself in more than 200 years of colonial history of diplomacy. Accompanied by a guide, explore the archeological remains and discover this place where important decisions once marked North America.
Details: Spirit of Lower Town
Explore the narrow streets of the original settlement of Quebec lined with grand architecture and imposing cathedrals. See the impressive ramparts of Haute-Ville and the Old Port and browse the stylish boutiques, chic cafés and popular restaurants that have taken residence in the fully restored 17th and 18th century buildings.
Details: Guided tour of La Citadelle
Why was the Citadelle built? What is a bastion and what is it used for? The tour takes students through the Citadelle, telling the story of its construction as it relates to history and the garrison's place as a military site in Québec City. The various stops introduce the buildings, bastions and strongholds and their functions in fortification and the city against the American attacks.
Details: Dinner and traditional entertainment at a sugar shack
Students enjoy a hearty authentic Québecois meal complete with traditional music and entertainment. After dinner there is a presentation on the production of maple syrup including a taffy pull.
Day 3 Québec--Montréal
Breakfast
Basilica of Ste-Anne de Beaupré
Travel to Montreal
Details: Copper Museum visit
Discover the art of metal embossing at the Copper Museum in Quebec and learn how this fine arts tradition is slowly disappearing worldwide.
Details: Montréal Science Centre visit
If you’re intrigued by science and technology, passionate about ecology or conservation, then a visit to the Montreal Science Center is a must. The Center offers several interactive exhibits and workshops where you need to use your knowledge, imagination and creativity to find solutions to improve our world including the interactive news room (idTV) and the game room that has you find solutions to real life ecological issues (Mission Gaia).
Details: Montréal tour director-led sightseeing
Students experience the city’s highest points and lowest depths, and everything in between. At the highest point, Saint Joseph’s Oratory rises majestically on Mont Royal. The church’s dome is second only to St. Peter’s in Rome. On the other end of the spectrum, students witness the double-decker city of Montréal – an underground city comprised of a series of tunnels and galleries connecting shops and restaurants.
Details: Dinner
Enjoy a delicious meal inspired by the local cuisine.
Day 4 Montréal
Breakfast
Details: Cosmodome Gemini Program
The focus of this half day program is for students to experience what it is like to live in space and the challenges astronauts face. Students will engage in eleven activities that will enhance their knowledge of space and will get to try out a training simulator just like the ones that astronauts use to train for space! Ignite a passion for space science in your students and see where it takes them!
Details: Notre-Dame Basilica visit
When he saw his church completed, the Protestant architect of the Notre Dame Basilica was so inspired that he converted to Catholicism. The blue-and-gold interior certainly is inspiring: practically every bit of the immense wooden church is covered in gold leaf. The imported stained-glass windows show the history of Montreal, further illustrated by the statues of famous residences outside. This famous Basilica helps demonstrate how the church played an important role in Canada’s history.
Details: Montréal Museum of Archaeology: Pointe-à-Callière guided visit
Visit the very site where Montréal was founded over 350 years ago, learn about Canada's archaelogical history and visit Pointe-a-Calliere where important archaeological remains and artifacts collected from archaeological digs at the site are displayed.
Details: 18th Century Pirate-Themed Dinner
Do you have what it takes to be a pirate? Find out when you join the crew of the infamous Balthazar la Moule and enjoy a dining experience that is truly out of the ordinary. While enjoying your delicious feast, musicians and a lively cast of characters will entertain you with songs and tales of adventure from the high seas.
Day 5 Montréal--Ottawa
Breakfast
Travel to Ottawa
Ottawa Animations
Dinner
Details: Mont Royal and Beaver Lake visit
Overlooking the city of Montréal, Mont Royal boasts breathtaking views from the highest point in the city. Considered to be the oldest protected area in Québec, this large urban park was designed by celebrated landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. Inspired by “the poetic charms of natural scenery,” the park would be his only creation in Canada. Students can experience the public sculptures, paintings and installations, explore Smith House, the Chalet and the Beaver Lake Pavilion, and see a cross originally erected in 1643 to give thanks to God for saving the colony from a flood.
Details: Ghosts and the Gallows (Haunted Walk & Jail Tour)
Throughout the city, your tour guide recounts Ottawa’s supernatural encounters and students learn why Ottawa was once considered the most dangerous town in North America. Afterwards, tour the Old Carleton County Jail, built in 1862, and learn about early prison life, as you see the jail cells, death row and the last working gallows in Canada. Students learn about classic tales of strange occurrences and ghostly visitations.
Day 6 Ottawa
Breakfast
Details: Parliament Building tour
Access to the Centre Block is currently restricted due to an ongoing heritage rehabilitation project in 2019. West Block may be substituted instead.
Details: Orienteering Rally on Parliament Hill
Explore the statues and learn about the monuments in Parliament Hill's open-air gallery by joining an orienteering rally.
Details: Canadian War Museum visit
Reaching out of the landscape toward Parliament Hill, the Canadian War Museum is a stunning masterpiece of architectural design. Learn respect for the men and women who serve in the military through a vast collection of military artifacts and impressive works of art.
Details: Canadian Museum of History visit
Open the doors to one of the most striking architectural masterpieces of our time. Start your journey in the Grand Hall, housing the largest collection of totem poles in the world, take a trip back through 1,000 years of Canadian history in Canada Hall, and come face to face with 27 fascinating people whose decisions and actions helped shape Canada into the nation it is today.
Details: Evening dinner dance
Get out your dancing shoes! The dinner and dance evening is guaranteed to be a night full of fun, dancing, singing, and even a few surprises.
Day 7 Goodbye Ottawa
Breakfast
Travel home
Details: National Gallery guided visit
During this guided tour of the National Gallery of Canada, one of the architectural jewels of Ottawa, you’ll experience works by Vincent Van Gogh, the Group of Seven, and Pablo Picasso among other priceless works of art. Afterwards students explore the gallery independently.
Details: RCMP Stables visit
Get an up close look at the majestic horses who perform the world-famous Musical Ride and who personally escort Her Majesty the Queen during her carriage rides through Ottawa. Tour the stables where the horses' training begins, peer into the Royal Carriage, and learn more about our Mounties.
Tour Includes:
- Round-trip transportation
- Breakfast daily (except arrival day)
- Dinner daily (except departure day)
- Full-time services of a professional Tour Director
- Guided sightseeing tours and city walks as per itinerary
- Visits to select attractions as per itinerary
- Overnight security chaperone
- 6 overnight stays in hotel with private bathrooms
- Tour Diary™
- Note: Tour cost does not include airline-imposed baggage fees, or fees for any required passport or visa. Optional excursions, optional pre-paid Tour Director and multi-day bus driver tipping, among other individual and group customizations will be listed as separate line items in the total trip cost, if included.
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