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Chaudière-Appalaches

Region in Quebec, Canada

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Overview

Chaudière-Appalaches is a region in Quebec. It includes Beauce, one of the most prolific maple syrup producing regions in the world.

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Air Montmagny (+1 418-248-3545) operates on-demand charter flights year-round from Montmagny to the small landing strips on Île-aux-Grues and Grosse-Île.

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Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport

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Cities

Lévis

located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City

Montmagny

a base for exploring Grosse Isle

Saint-Georges

the main centre of the Beauce region

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli

a centre for sculpture

Grosse Isle

historic quarantine station for inbound ships from Ireland and Europe

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UnderstandChaudière-Appalaches is a consistently overlooked part of Quebec, but it is an extensive and beautiful region. A peculiarly strong local accent is used by a small percentage of the population of Chaudière-Appalaches.

Get inFrom Waterville, Maine and other points south, US 201 crosses the Appalachian mountains and reaches the US-Canadian border at the southern end of the region, becoming Route 173 (Route du President Kennedy).

Get aroundCroisières Lachance runs seasonally from Berthier-sur-Mer to Grosse-Île and Île-aux-Grues; total cost per-person for boat and national historic site admission is about $60/person.

SeeGrosse-Île National Historic Site was a quarantine station for Irish fleeing the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s.

DoSugaring off in early spring in the centrepiece of the maple syrup harvest. Visit a cabane à sucre or the Festival beauceron de l'Érable (Beauce maple festival) in late March.

EatThe Beauce region produces 90% of the world's maple syrup, and no visit to the region would be complete without a trip to one of many "cabanes à sucre" or sugar shacks.

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