The Oshawa Times, 6 May 1961, p. 36

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10 TODAY SATURDAY, may o, 1961 PAGE TWELVE BY PIERRE LANGLOIS Scene at Lac Masson. OU roll north from Montreal along a magnificent toll. highway. The land is fairly flat for about 30 miles, until you come to Saint-Jerome, and by the time you have reached Shawbridge, you are in climbing hill country. You have entered the Laurentians, one of North America's outstanding all-season playgrounds. You may have come to the Laurentians in the win- ter time for the superb skiing, on one of the gay ski trains or perhaps driven along the fine roads kept clear of snow down to the pavement by the giant ploughs operated by the province. But if you think of the area only as a winter resort, you should return in one of the other seasons - in the freshness of spring, the lushness of summer or the spectacular beauty of fall - and you'll find how fully justified the phrase "all-season resort" can be. The Laurentian countryside consists of rolling hills. As part of the great Laurentian Shield, covering more than three-quarters of the province of Quebec, it is marked by evergreens, open slopes and picturesque valleys. Its hills rise from 700 to more than 3,000 feet. It is criss-crossed by good roads, dotted with excellent resort establishments, sprinkled with lovely lakes and streams its forests alive with wildlife and its. waters Excellent accommodation with game fish. at Mont Tremblant. That is the bare description. It is only a part, a very small part of the Laur- entian story. All kinds of water sports. Part of its extra at- traction and charm it must share with much of the rest of the province. A PROVINCE de Que- bec, beginning with the "Douanes - Customs" Signs posted at the border, is pleas- antly flavored with French, the major language of this great, sun-bathed section of { the continent. It thus offers - the romance and interest of | foreign travel without one even having to leave North America. ol ! Superb road to the Laurentians. A vast area of 600,000

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