Before leaving for my highly expected trip for summer 2011, I decided it was time for a recapitulation. I think people from Chemuyil (Yukatan, Mexico) will be happy to learn a bit more about me and, like for many of my friends, to benefit a little Montréal (Québec, Canada) 101 course. Where I come from: Montréal, Québec, Canada History briefs A new land of hope and wealth In 1534, under the commission of the king of France to find a western passage to Asia and its wealthy markets, the navigator and explorator Jacques Cartier discovered, after 20 days and with 61 man, a new land which he named Canada. He first explored the maritimes of the gulf he named Gulf of St. Lawrence. At Chaleur bay (warm water beaches on the Gaspésie and New Brunswick coast),
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