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Montreal - Day 3

Friday, Nate and I explored Old Montreal. It's where the first French settlers originally landed and started what they called Ville Marie. We had the absolute best breakfast at this cute cafe/bakery in Old Montreal before going to the Pointe-a-Calliere museum.


Pointe-a-Calliere is supposed to mark the birthplace of Montreal. Today it serves as a pretty cool archaeology museum that traces Montreal's history from the Native Indians that first lived in the area to the French settlers to modern day.


You can go up to the very top of the museum too and get a pretty good look around.

The foundations of the buildings on the left actually sit on remains of the wall that once surrounded Ville Marie (aka Montreal).

After leaving the museum, we did some more walking around and stopped in this little chapel, Notre Dame de Bon Secours. It's one of the oldest church in Montreal.

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