In the Footsteps of our Irish Palatine Ancestors 11 days: September 13-23, 2018 New York State and Québec Includes: 11 days: September 13-23, 2018 • Luxury motor coach transportation • Admission to Fort Ticonderoga • 10 nights accommodation & Crown Point • 10 breakfasts • Domaine du Ridge Winery Tour • 4 lunches • Admission to Missisquoi Museum • 10 dinners • Ferry to Grosse Île Come with us on this grand sightseeing tour and see it all! • Admission to 9/11 Memorial • Services of a Tour Director • NYC guided tour • All gratuities and applicable taxes • Ticket to Broadway show • Historical tour of Bennington Battlefield, $3785 Twin $3675 Triple Saratoga Battlefield & Saratoga Monument $3565 Quad $5285 Single

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Tour Notes: Please refer to the Terms and Conditions as outlined in the General Information section of our current catalogue (available on request). We recommend that Group of the Ontario Genealogical Society. everyone have travel insurance, especially when travelling outside of Canada. A deposit is required at the time of booking an overnight tour in order to guarantee the reservation.Travel arrangements made by: Great Canadian Holidays Inc., 353 Manitou Drive, Kitchener, ON N2C 1L5 TICO# 2280154 PLEASE NOTE: A valid passport is required for entry into the .

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Day One: Our tour begins in the vibrant city of lunch, we board the coach and travel to Saratoga and travel the route the Palatines and other Loyal- join an optional walking tour or continue to explore Montréal, our home for the night. We check into our Springs, NY, checking into Hampton Inn & Suites Sara- ists took on their way to Canada. We’ll stop at Fort the city at your leisure. This evening, dinner at Louis downtown hotel, and enjoy an included dinner and a toga Springs Downtown, our home for the night. This Ticonderoga, a large, 18th-century star fort built by Hébert is accompanied by a fascinating historical inter- welcome orientation. evening, we’ll join the New York Chapter of Palatines the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake pretation of the city’s heritage. to America for dinner at the Olde Bryan Inn. Champlain, which played a role in The French & Indian Day Two: After breakfast at the hotel, we board War and The American Revolution. After touring the Day Ten: We board the coach and travel by ferry to the coach and travel south through the Lacolle area Day Five: After breakfast at the hotel, we board the fort and free time for lunch, we board the coach and Grosse Île, with an included tour of the site. The island where several Irish Palatine families settled in the 19th coach for a short drive to Cambridge and the Camden travel to nearby Crown Point, the British fort where was the site of an immigration depot and quarantine century. We will stop at the Odelltown church, site of Valley, the location where the Palatines settled when many of the Palatines signed up to fight with Gen- station from 1832 to 1937. Home to The Irish Me- an 1838 Patriote invasion where Irish Palatine John they left NYC in 1770. We’ll see the rich farmland, eral Burgoyne. We tour the museum and fort before morial National Historic Site, the island pays tribute Havener was killed. We cross the border and travel to visit a couple of Methodist cemeteries as well as the boarding the coach to cross the border back into to the fascinating history of the almost 500,000 Irish New York City, stopping for included lunch and din- Moravian Burial Ground where Philip Embury was Québec. We spend the night at the Centre de Santé immigrants who passed through on their journey ner en route. We arrive at our hotel, right in the heart first laid to rest. After exploring the area, we enjoy an Euro-Spa in St. Ignace, and enjoy dinner there. from Ireland. Afterwards, we take the ferry back to of Manhattan, late evening. included lunch before driving to nearby Bennington, the mainland and after a lunch stop, we arrive back in Vermont, to visit the local museum with its wonderful Day Eight: Today we explore the Missisquoi area Montréal this evening for dinner. Day Three: After breakfast, a step-on guide joins us Grandma Moses Gallery. We enjoy an included dinner of Québec where some of the Irish Palatine Loyalist on the coach this morning as we see the very best of back at the hotel before an evening to explore down- families chose to settle. We’ll explore Philipsburg with Day Eleven: After breakfast, enjoy some free time in the Big Apple. After free time for lunch, we visit the town Saratoga Springs. its old Methodist Church, Saint-Armand, including a the city of Montréal to explore at your leisure before new 9/11 Museum located in the World Trade Center historic Methodist cemetery and Pigeon Hill cemetery. attending a church service at St. James United Church site. Afterwards, we enjoy dinner at Carmine’s, a New Day Six: We board the coach after breakfast to visit We then travel to Domaine du Ridge Winery, one of which traces its origins to the first Methodist congre- York institution, before seeing a performance of the the historical battlefields of the American Revolution the largest in Québec, for lunch and a winery tour. gation in Montréal dating back to 1803. The church smash-hit musical Come From Away, telling the inspi- where our Irish Palatine ancestors fought in 1777. After lunch, we’ll visit the Missisquoi Museum, housed bears a plaque to Catherine Embury Fisher, daughter rational and uplifting true story of how the town of First, we’ll see the Bennington Battlefield, brought to in an 1830s red-brick grist mill, general store and a of Philip and Margaret Embury. After an included Gander, Newfoundland welcomed in 7,000 diverted life by an historical interpreter. Afterwards, we travel unique 12-sided barn. Dinner is at the Old Mill Restau- lunch, we see some highlights of the city on a walk- airline passengers in the wake of 9/11. the short distance to the Saratoga Battlefield, and a rant in Stanbridge East, and then we’ll travel back to ing tour. Afterwards, we board the coach to travel to step-on historical interpreter joins us for a driving tour the Euro-Spa hotel for the night. some other notable locations of the city including the Day Four: This morning we visit nearby John Street of the area. After lunch, we’ll visit the nearby Sarato- beautiful Notre Dame Basilica. This evening, we enjoy a , the oldest Methodist ga monument and Surrender Tree, before enjoying an Day Nine: This morning we travel to beautiful Québec farewell dinner at Vieux-Port Steakhouse in Old Mon- congregation in North America, established in 1766 included dinner at a nearby restaurant. We travel back City, with free time this afternoon to explore the old tréal. We then part ways, with an optional return trip by Philip Embury and . We’ll spend some to our hotel in Saratoga Springs for the night. walled city and enjoy lunch on your own. Several Irish to Toronto area the following day. Please coordinate time exploring the museum in the basement of the Palatine families immigrated directly from Ireland to with your group leader in making arrangements. church, before attending a service. After an included Day Seven: After breakfast, we check out of the hotel Québec City in the 19th century. You may wish to

New York State & Québec 11 Days: September 13-23, 2018