Museum of Fine Arts, chapel Notre-Dame de Bonsecours and assorted

Apparently 3/4 of the world's maple syrup comes from Quebec.

Montreal is the second largest French speaking city in the world. When I read this I wondered about Marseille.   According to one website Montreal has 1.75 million in 2016.  One website said Marseille would have 1.5 mill in 2017 and one said 1.1 in 2015.  Both websites said Marseille was growing very quickly.

Quebec didnot have , e.g. 60, 62 A, 62 B, 64 street numbers in a street but 60, 62,
62 1//2, 64. I would rather live in 62 1/2 than 62B

Today I went to the Museum des Beaux Arts.  The gallery is spread over 4 buildings . I looked at the modern art, skipped most of the older European stuff, could not make sense of the Contemporary stuff, enjoyed the early settler stuff. Lots of the paintings of Europeans and natives were vaguely similar to paintings of the early days of Australia except  most had reference in some way to the Catholic church.  I quite liked the work of Marc-Aurele Fortin, a Canadian. They didnot have much Inuit art. Apparently there is another gallery that specialises  it.

Along the street from where I am staying is a small chapel, the oldest stone church in Montreal. It has become known as a church for sailors and there a re quite a few models of boats hanging from the ceiling.  In 2003 there was a special ceremony to marK  the 350th anniversary of the lady who started the chapel. The Port of Montreal gave the church a model of a container ship to mark the occasion.

There are many things I would like to have seen but my priority today is to catch up on little things and rest a bit. It would not be sensible to arrive in NY tired. I know from the 10 days I spent with Wendy and Co in July that the kids go full speed all day, some of the night and then the next day and the day after etc etc

When I arrived there was snow everywhere. It snowed on the first  day but then stopped and got cold.  Today many of the footpaths were covered in treacherous icy patches. Quite difficult in places. Quite tiring, I have to concentrate.