Saturday after breakfast and Jim's workout at the hotel's large gym, we headed to the Old Port, the oldest part of this sprawling city, where we visited the 19th century neo-Gothic Basilica of Notre-Dame. This cathedral has many carved, gilt details and is a popular tourist attraction, After that we took a taxi to the Museum of Fine Arts. A pleasant lunch of tortellinis was followed by visits to the galleries to see decorative arts, the old master collection and early 20th century Canadians (see the photo of a landscape by Tom Thomson.) In between touring the museum's collection, we attended a concert of Bach's Christmas and New Year cantatas in the Salle Bourgie, which at one time was a church, renovated in 1937-8 by Percy Erskine Nobbs, considered one of Canada's most important architects of the 20th century. Sunday morning we return to Philadelphia by air after a short but delightful visit to three Canadian cities. - Dan
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