Lomer-Gouin and
Alfonse Desjardins are twin 1971 ferries, or traversiers operating between Quebec City and Levis, but the organization has ferries between many other points on the St. Lawrence as well.
The word traversiers is easy to trace and associate, but the derivation of ferry is from Norse.
These are no double ended ferries like those big orange ones in the sixth boro.
And the bow seems designed to ride up on and crush the ice.
Now I don’t know if there are still openings, but the sixth boro will soon have a more inclusive set of ferry stops as well. I believe you can find the notices here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who was too late for the ice canoe races this year, but next year, I’ll be there. You have to see the photos in that link.
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March 20, 2017 at 6:19 am
Daniel Meeter
Twice we’ve had the family car on the Levis ferry, and those boats are a pleasure because they’re so open and so airy. Certainly in summer, but even in winter, I’d guess, because Quebeckers do winter so much better than us New-Yorkers.
March 20, 2017 at 6:45 am
tugster
Truly they do! It was 7 degrees one morning last week . . . lots of folks out walking. I pulled into Montreal in the blizzard and there were wheeled tractors three abreast clearing the avenues. Tracked snow machines on the sidewalks were brushing and blowing snow, and then folks riding bicycles, no matter the temps and snow accumulation. Maybe because I was in the “south” of canada . . . folks there think that weather is nothing because the serious extremes are farther north . . . in the arctic.