Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Montreal's oldest Chapel, also known as the sailors Church.

Marché Bonsecours, once the city's main agricultural Marketplace.

City Hall.

Another view from Place Jacques-Cartier, a Public Square filled with cafes, performers, and lots of people

Beaver Tails, a popular chain selling fried dough pastries, which are basically elephant ears. But I had to have one and with all of the choices available, I went with the Canadian theme of having the maple glaze

Notre Dame Basilica of Montreal

Place d'Armes, facing the church and surrounded by other beautiful and old buildings

Notre-Dame Basílica reflected in the glass

Saint-Jacques Street, once known as Canada's Wall Street

We finished our tour with a short listening jam session at the Montreal Jazz Festival

Inside the greenhouse

In addition to the gardens, we also checked out the biodome. This was once the velodrome for the 1976 Olympic Games. They have now converted it into four ecosystems with wildlife and plants

Face to face with a polar bear! Okay, it was a fake holographic attraction that we waited over 15 minutes for 20 seconds of interaction

Penguins too

Finally, real penguins

Olympic Stadium

We were dragging all day long, so we turned in early and got lucky by finding some seats to enjoy the free jazz music playing in front of the hotel

Saint-Roch Church, the largest church in Quebec City

St-Joseph street

Underpass mural art

Looking down Saint Paul Street

Funicular up to the old city

Lunch.. Lisa got the French onion soup

Looking down Du Petit-Champlain

Fairmont Lê Chateau Frontenac

St Lawrence River from Terrasse Dufferin. The cruise ship below is the Holland America Veendam, a cruise that we had looked at booking but it was too expensive

Lisa walking along the perimeter of La Citadelle

Fountaine de Tourny

Parliament Building in background

Another view of the Fairmont Lê Chateau Frontenac, the most photographed hotel in the world

Basilique-Cathedral Notre-Dame

Inside the church

Dinner, outdoor patio near City Hall

Street performer on St-Jean

Canadian Museum of Nature

Queen's Lantern

Queen's Lantern from the inside

Dinosaurs exhibit

Supreme Court Building

Inside the courts

In the throes of chaos

Canadian Snowbirds air stunts

They closed off a number of streets around the capital to accommodate the thousands of people that descended upon the capital

We say enjoying cheese curds

Canadians for the day

National Gallery and spider sculpture

Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica

Museum of Canadian History

Looking across to Parliament Hill from the History Museum

History Museum, interior

Canadian Coat of Arms

Mask from the Indigenous Peoples exhibit

Napoleon and Paris exhibit

Dusk sets, almost time for fireworks

Unfortunately for us they closed the bridge to get to the other side, so we were stuck at the history museum. The rain started and we had to make a choice weather to watch the fireworks at 10 p.m. and then hope to get the right bus back where to start walking towards the other bridge and hope to watch the fireworks from there

Fortunately for us, we did manage to watch the fireworks from the second bridge

After the fireworks, it was just a 15-minute walk back to our air Airbnb