July 5-9 were spent in Montreal doing last minute van preparations and visiting relatives.

Pointe-Claire

We spent most of the day figuring out how to repair the gear shifter on Henry’s e-bike. Somehow, the cables in the shifter came loose, partially came out of their housing, and abraded on each other until they broke. We will spare you the pictures.

Since the Enviolo gear changers is a bit different than most gear shifters, and we wanted to go to a shop that knew them, which we found in Pointe-Claire.

While we were in Point-Claire, walked around the village to the Pointe-Claire Windmill:

Pointe Claire 1

and the Paroisse St-Joachim de Pointe-Claire:

Pointe Claire 2

Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC

We spent the first part of the week in Dollard-des-Ormeaux visiting Gail’s family and finalizing preparations for our trip. This included repacking Sleepy Hollow which had been hastily packed in Toronto in order to get out of Toronto as quickly as possible. Did I mention that it was scorching hot (32+ degrees) the last couple of days we spent in Toronto and we had no desire to do much in the van.

Smoke Meat Pete

Whenever we go to Montreal, Gail has to get her smoked meat fix. Our favourite is Smoke Meat Pete where we took Howard and his family as thanks for letting us camp out in their driveway.

Centennial Park

We biked around Centennial Park. We let Laura try out an e-bike for the first time and went to watch her soccer practice in preparation for the

Olympiques spéciaux Québec in Granby August 6-10.

That’s it for Montreal

Next, we are off to Sorel-Tracy to visit Henry’s sister Edith and her husband Richard.

In case you had missed it, we came from Ottawa.

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