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Municipality in Quebec, Canada
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Saint-Joseph-du-Lac is a municipality of 6,200 people (2011) in the lower Laurentides in the province of Quebec, Canada.
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In the immediately neighbouring town of Saint-Eustache, local flowers, perennials, trees, shrubs and beautiful riverside scenery within a 20th-century eclectic garden created by Thérèse Romer, a well-known Quebec conservationist.
This is a very popular spot for apple picking in the autumn. There is a shop, cider house and coffee house onsite. Children's activities are available during the apple-picking season. It can get very busy at this time on weekends.
Pumpkin-picking, squash-picking, live music on Sunday afternoons, tractor rides, a children's play area. Picnic tables available so you can bring your own lunch. Dogs welcome. The bistro offers counter service M-F 11:00-15:00 and table service Sa Su 11:00-17:00 for soups, squash chips, salads and hot dishes. The shop sells a variety of gourd-related products, and beer and wine produced by their own vineyard and microbrewery.
long network of trails winds across the lawns and through the gardens and arboretum-style forest.
Varied menu ranging from sandwiches, submarines to pizza, pasta and ribs.
Burgers, steamed dogs, fries, poutine, wings, pizza.
A cabane-à-sucre, or sugar shack, that is open during the springtime sugaring-off. Traditional Quebecois country meals of pea soup, baked beans, ham, bacon, Cole slaw, omelettes, pancakes, and maple products. Tractor ride included with the meal.
A vineyard that produces 50,000 bottles of wine a year. The microbrewery uses their own barley, and they run the only malting plant in Quebec that makes a handmade floor malt. The result is a beer that is 100% Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, from the field to the bottle.
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The nearest airport is Montreal's Pierre-Elliot Trudeau International Airport.
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