An old-time Christmas, Portneuf-style
Cap-Santé stands proudly overlooking the St. Lawrence on the river’s north shore, some 40 kilometres (25 mi.) west of Québec City. Legend has it that this community’s name was coined when soldiers suffering from an unknown disease miraculously recovered from a cure discovered in the village…
On Cap-Santé’s magnificent Place de l’Église (church square),
Le Noël d’antan 2009 will attract, once again this year, the November 27-28-29, over 60 craft artists offering their nicest works in time for the Holiday Season. Lots of great Christmas shopping is in store—paintings, crafts, gifts, local edibles—in addition to Holiday entertainment for the whole family.
Sleigh rides, an auction market, winter games and community outreach activities—the entire village celebrates. From the Place de l’Église, strollers can leisurely explore the Vieux Chemin, one of the prettiest village streets in Canada, according to
The Globe and Mail newspaper. The Vieux-Chemin is home to bed and breakfasts and, at the end of the street, sits Jeannette Trépanier’s marvellous art gallery, which offers typically Québécois thematic works. Wooden and stone homes dot the narrow and shaded street that borders the cape, displaying its unique charm, particularly in the fall season, when the gold and red colours of autumn shimmer in the sunlight.
It comes as no surprise that Cap-Santé is a member of The Most Beautiful Villages of Québec network. The ancestral charm of the Vieux-Chemin—an eloquent witness to the past, as the street was built along the same geographical line as that of the original Chemin du Roy, or King’s Road—takes visitors back to the days of New France.
Additional information : -
www.capsante.qc.ca -
www.jeannettetrepanier.com
