Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, QC

[doady]

Ste-Agathe is a small town north of Quebec, near Mont-Tremblant.

The former train station, now a rest stop for cyclists in the former rail corridor

Lupines

The former rail corridor

Uh oh, someone call the language police!

Some sort of car festival on Rue St-Vincent

St-Vincent is a one-way street. Yes, like Ste-Catherine and many other streets in Montreal, it is a one-way street and it is not dead. Take that Hamilton.

Cars are boring, but it was good opportunity for someone with "slanty eyes" to take photos of people without risk of being called a paedophile or a terrorist.

Caterpillar nest... I think...

The rail corridor does not have steep slopes, which makes cycling easy.

 

[syn]

Great pics. What are the people like? Is it a big issue if you don't speak French?

 

[marcus_a_j]

Nice pictures doady. What brought you to Ste. Agathe? Some of the pictures of open areas reminded of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, where Duddy goes to Ste. Agathe to work for the summer at a resort, finds land and wants to buy it.

 

[doady]

^ I have family in Ste-Agathe, so I was just staying there.

Great pics. What are the people like? Is it a big issue if you don't speak French?

The people there are great. Like all Quebeckers some people are extremely rude if you can't speak French (even though they know English), but overall people are extremely polite. Actually in my personal experience the the biggest jerks in Ste-Agathe were the anglophones from Montreal.

But still this is a French-speaking part of Quebec so it is best to know French. 15 min south of Ste-Agathe you will find St-Sauveur and there are a lot of English speaking people there since it is a tourist resort town. Ste-Agathe is more like "real" town, if you get my meaning, which why I like it more than St-Sauveur. St-Sauveur is much better than Mont-Tremblant, which isn't even a real town at all, so don't see the attraction.

BTW, Ste-Agathe is actually located north of Montreal, not Quebec as I indicated in the original post.