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16 experience to extend their journey to Percé and Gaspé Basin on the coast of the thumb-like peninsula which projects into the Gulf of St. Lawrence as part of the Province of Quebec. If the traveller elects to make the voyage from Montreal or Quebec by St. Lawrence River steamers, he can disembark at Gaspé Basin, continue to Percé by rail, and thence to Matapedia (junction of the Peninsula road with the Intercolonial line, Montreal—Halifax). Or, after a tour of the Gaspé coast, the steamer may be resumed at Percé for Charlottetown and Nova Scotia ports.

If the tour of the Maritime Provinces is to be supplemented by an excursion to Newfoundland, the steamer may be boarded at North Sydney, Cape Breton, for Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland, the Island crossed by rail to St. John's, the capital, and another steamer taken back to Halifax or New York.

A trip to the very interesting French colonial islands of Miquelon may be taken from Halifax, and the return steamer left at North Sydney, the voyage to Newfoundland being pursued from the latter port. There is no passenger service between Newfoundland and the Miquelon Islands. Tugs or motor-boats may sometimes be engaged for the crossing, but at an immoderate rate.

Tourist Bureaux.

In Halifax and Yarmouth the interests of the