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With Access Montreal & Quebec City, you'll discover old-world charm and modern-day pleasures in Canada's most fiercely independent and popular city destinations.

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It is Winter Carnival time in beautiful Quebec City. The Screech Owls are in town to join in the winter fun and take part in the biggest hockey tournament on earth: the famous Quebec Peewee Invitational. This is where Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, and Mario Lemieux first showed the world their incredible talents – and now it’s the turn of Travis, Nish, Sarah, and their friends.

But the dream trip soon turns into a nightmare. Travis is asked to keep a diary that will be published in one of the big daily newspapers – and a terrible misunderstanding follows. Soon after Travis’s words appear in print, the crowds are booing the Screech Owls, and someone – no one knows who – begins a campaign of terror against the team.

The Owls know they are good enough to make it to the final. Sarah could even equal a tournament record set by the great Guy Lafleur! But if the Owls are to stand any chance at all, they must find out who is trying to destroy them.

The Quebec City Crisis is the seventh book in the Screech Owls Series.

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Quebec Rocks! I just don't get the hockey...
Quebec City Crisis was a book that I enjoyed, even though I do not like hockey. I rate it four stars because, being a non-hockey player, I do NOT get the hockey games they play. Roy MacGregor forges books that are both mystery and hockey.
I have read Mystery in Lake Placid, The Night they stole the Stanley Cup, Terror in Florida, Ghost Of the Stanley Cup, and Sudden Death in New York City. Same thing, all good books, yet all uncomprehensible hockey games. My favourite character was Bart Lundrigan, the mysterious newspaper person.

Great Book Again In This Series
The tounrament where some famous hockey stars like Mario Lemieux, Guy Lafleur and Wayne Gretzky first showed the world their talents. Now it is time for the Screech Owls to do the same. The dream trip turns into a nightmare. Travis is asked by a newspaper to keep a diary and someone sabotoged it. The fans start booing them and the Screech Owls must find a way to find the culprit. Will they find him in time?

I think......
I think this book is excellent, i have read all the screech owl books in order up to this one, except i read Nightmare in Nagano before this cuz that wuz the only one my friends had that i had cuz we had to do a report. I haven't finished the book yet but i will be finished the book at the end of the month. I love Roys books and i absolutly adore the way he describes the hockey games that the Owls play (i play hockey in real life). I love the way roy has hockey and mystery genre into one book and how all of his mysterys actually make sense after all the hockey games and investigations. I love the mysterys and i plan to read the rest of the owls books (even if i can't keep up with the pace they are being made). Thanks roy for the many great books! Keep reading and never stop writing all those books that i adore soo much.

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Quebec City Crisis
A great book! It's suspenseful and fun to read about when the Screech Owls, a 12 year old traveling hockey team, travels to Quebec City for a hockey tournament. They didn't know it, but there would be trouble ahead. This mystery is a great book for both fans and players. I play hockey and find this series to be very addicting. You won't be able to put this book down. ... Read more

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"Consistently rated the best guides to the regions covered...Readable, tasteful, appealingly designed. Strong on dining, lodging, and history."—National Geographic Traveler

Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the modern traveler. They're packed full of up-to-date information to help plan the perfect gateway. And they're compact and light enough to come along for the ride. A tool you'll turn to before, during, and after your trip, these guides include these helpful features:
• Chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation and more!
• A section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, landromats, numbers for police, firee, and rescue, and other relevant information
• Maps of regions and locales

Montreal & Quebec City is auser-friendly and lighthearted travel guide that offers local flavor on where to stay, where to eat and what to do. Includes more than 400 listings—travel essentials like tips on crossing the border and suggested walking tours. ... Read more

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This is the first selective guide to Montreal and Quebec City, which host more than seven million visitors each year. More than a mere checklist of monuments and scenic sites, it conveys much of the history, lore, and spirit that has enabled these great French-speaking cities to endure and prosper in North America. Martin Kevan, a resident of Quebec with an insider's knowledge of the province, has organized this guide around short walking tours, each with a central theme. Illustrations. ... Read more

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Immerse yourself in one of the world's best jazz festivals, watch the Changing of the Guard at a massive Québec City fortress, line up for Montréal's mouth-watering answer to corned beef, or challenge yourself with great skiing or golf int eh Laurentians—Fodor's Montréal and Québec City 2006 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the area to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."

- We update our Montréal and Québec City guide every year. You won't find a more accurate, current guidebook anywhere.
- Unlike other travel books, Fodor's guides rely heavily on local experts who know the territory best—so you know you're seeing the real Montréal and Québec City.
- We give you the planning tools you need to tailor your trip. We give options for all budgets. You make the choices.

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With Fodor’s you get much more than a guidebook–we make it easy for you to customize your dream vacation.

Visit www.fodors.com to find up-to-date travel bargains, mini-guides to worldwide destinations, information on local festivals, dazzling drives, maps, vacation planning tips and much more!

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Completely updated every year, Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City is the only guide you'll need to discover these two gems of French Canada. You'll choose from a wide selection of accommodations, from grand hotels to charming guesthouses. Our author, a renowned food writer, has found the very best French cafes and bistros, from the classics to the cutting-edge, and his pull-no-punches reviews will help you find the perfect spot to suit your taste and budget. Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City also includes up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; and side trips to the scenic Laurentian mountains.Download Description
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!

Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City is the only guide you'll need to discover these two gems of French Canada. You'll choose from a wide selection of accommodations, from grand hotels to charming guesthouses. Our author, a renowned food writer, has found the very best French cafes and bistros, from the classics to the cutting-edge, and his pull-no-punches reviews will help you find the perfect spot to suit your taste and budget. Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City also includes up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; and side trips to the scenic Laurentian mountains. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Not a help to me.
I had this book along with the Lonely Planet guide to Montreal.I found that the Lonely Planet guide to Montreal had better information on Quebec City than this book did.

It may be that this book is just not designed for people like me, but I just did not find this book useful.

Mis- information
We were disappointed in the inaccuracies in the information regarding Quebec City.The listing for the Auberge St. Antoine indicated two levels of parking (valet and self park); in fact the hotel only offers valet parking and for considerably less than listed in the book.The hours for at least one of the tourist attractions were not correct.The biking information does not include the nice trail in Levis accross the St. Lawrence and accessible by ferry (no car required); instead, the book sends you to an island that requires a car and does not have traffic free paths.

Traveling to Quebec? Don't forget your guide.
As many Frommer's traveling books, this one will help the reader to get along the city and take advantage of his travel. Having this book handy in your backpack will make your walking tours, dinning and staying a truly unforgettable experience. It is amazing how it describes to the detail many places that no other way you would consider visiting. Even though Frommer's is a guarantee istelf, consider buying a better city map to get along, since the one in the book is a little confusing and incomplete.

A great help in enjoying two wonderful Canadian cities
In preparing for a trip to Montreal and Quebec, I was pleasantly surprised to find a book that covered both cities.It was easy to read and findspecific information.The different maps were very helpful while walkingaround both cities -- although I used actual road maps for drivingdirections.Keeping in mind that having two cities means less informationabout each -- I found the information was the right amount to help us makeimportant decisions or ask the right questions when we made reservations.It certainly will help you find the "must see" spots as itprovides recommendations for a one-, two- or three-day visit.I often readthe short description of a site aloud before we visited.We changed ourhotel reservations based on the book.As a result, we saved $10 per night(which more than paid for the book) and got free meals for the children --a huge savings over three days. Bottomline -- a good, easy-to-use book withvaluable information -- especially for first or second time visitors.

Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City
Good overall book. It is very accurate and a good starting point for a new traveller to the city. The only problem w/ a book like Frommer's is that 10,000 other people have the same book. You tend to see the same kind ofcrowd if you follow thier recommendations as the people who buy the book.Nevertheless, it is a very good informative guide for what it is and shouldbe bought by any 1st time visiter to Montreal and Quebec. ... Read more

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Completely revised and updated guide to Québec's two distinctly different cities

Montréal and Québec City are vibrant cultural centres, pre-eminent destinations for Canadians, Americans and Europeans alike. This new Colourguide offers updated coverage and new images of museums, galleries, heritage sites, parks and gardens.
Written entirely by local residents, this book gives readers the benefit of inside knowledge on accommodations, events, places to eat, places to shop, and places to relax. Montreal Mirror Arts Editor Matthew Woodley explores the art galleries, from the grand to the underground. Actor and film maker Paul Spence covers nightlife both on and off the beaten track, including the gay scene, as well as late-night snack spots. Sarah Musgrave, casual dining critic for the Montreal Gazette, gets to the heart of Montréal's ever-evolving Main, examining the culture, cuisine, entertainment, and shopping.
This edition features expanded coverage of Québec City. The dining section focuses on award-winning chefs who use the region's finest produce to create a distinct cuisine. The convergence of historical buildings and the modern city in Upper and Lower Towns is highlighted by local experts.
This edition is fully updated with a listings section that provides website information for travellers who like to plan on the web. Maps and colour photography illustrate an entertaining and informative text. ... Read more

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montreal and quebec city colourguide
Very informative, I am from this area and loved the book.

Good overview
I thought this book was quite appropriate for my travel to Montreal and Quebec City. It describes in sections of what to see and do at Montreal and Quebec City. It also gives the reader information on some of the excursions one can undertake while in these areas. However, this book is best used in conjunction with a detailed map as it doesn't not tell the read how to get to the places it describes (e.x. while Montmorency and Orleans are indeed 5 minutes East of Quebec City, it doesn't tell you how to get there). Overall, if you are only staying in each city for 1-2 days though, this is a great book.

Doesn't have good maps
This book is colorful which is good. However, I am surprised by the fact that it doesn't provide good maps. It has brief regional maps and some area maps. However, I couldn't find most routes and attractions in the maps. Those routes are mentioned in its introduction of area attractions. The other surprising fact is that it doesn't have a subway map.

Lots of information poorly organized, leave it at home when you travel
This travel guide is organized as follows:
1/ The first few pages are simple maps but they won't be of much help if you actually try to use them to navigate Montreal/Quebec.
2/ 100+ pages of text with full-color pictures detailing what to see or do in Montreal/Quebec, a section is dedicated to each city and sub-sections for areas of interest in each city, like the old port area in Montreal.
3/ the book calls it the "Listings" section, it has travel tips, lists of hotels, restaurants, places to shop, etc. (b&w, no pictures, each page divided into 2 columns, looks kind of like phone book listings)

This tour guide does an excellent job of including almost every spot that a tourist might be interested in, accompanied by colorful photos, the problem is a reader often have to scan through whole paragraphs of text to find specific information he/she is looking for. For example, when scanning through the guide a photo of a restaurant caught my eye and I would like to find information about that restaurant, often I would have to scan through the whole paragraph to find the line describing the restaurant, and when I need the address/contact information I'll have to flip to the listing section. Another problem is without a map a street address is not very useful.

If you allow yourself plenty of time to prepare for the trip you might as well get this book, read through it to determine what places you want to visit/restaurants you want to dine in; and then do the preparation work to find out the opening hours/contact information/address etc. But if you just want to hop on to a plane to Montreal/Quebec and roam around, this tour guide is not for you. ... Read more

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Completely updated every year, Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City is the only guide you'll need to discover these two gems of French Canada. You'll choose from a wide selection of accommodations, from grand hotels to charming guesthouses. Our author, a renowned food writer, has found the very best French cafes and bistros, from the classics to the cutting-edge, and his pull-no-punches reviews will help you find the perfect spot to suit your taste and budget. Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City also includes up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; and side trips to the scenic Laurentian mountains.Download Description
Completely updated every year, Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City is the only guide you'll need to discover these two gems of French Canada. You'll choose from a wide selection of accommodations, from grand hotels to charming guesthouses. Our author, a renowned food writer, has found the very best French cafes and bistros, from the classics to the cutting-edge, and his pull-no-punches reviews will help you find the perfect spot to suit your taste and budget. Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City also includes up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; and side trips to the scenic Laurentian mountains. ... Read more

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Good for the listings, not for the "in-depth" coverage
I was quite disappointed by this Frommer's, I have used their series on numerous trips abroad and have found them quite informative. Being from Montreal, I found the initial section on Quebec history and culture very inaccurate and biased against the French-speaking majority.Now I question the accuracy of all the cultural information I read in the other books I bought. I give it 4 stars for the section on what "to do" and 1 star on the section aiming at educating readers on the culture and history of the place they are going to visit. The books recommended will probably give the reader an even more negative view of the French majority, none of which are written by the latter. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Forest Products Journal, published by Forest Products Society on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3509 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Quebec City: full of history and charm.(Calendar)
Publication: Forest Products Journal (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Forest Products Society
Volume: 55Issue: 4Page: 8(6)

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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go.In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Montreal and Quebec City give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun.Fodor's Montreal & Quebec Cityshows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special.The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice -- from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Your personal supply of Post-it? flags makes it easy to mark your favorite listings.Plus, web links, costs, and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap. ... Read more

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Fodor's Montréal & Québec City 2000"Fodor's guides are always a pleasure." - The Chicago Tribune

"Teeming with maps and loaded with addresses, phone numbers, and directions." - Newsday

Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over.  Updated each year and containing a foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler.

Insider info that's reliable and smart
Local experts show you all the things to see and do -- from top sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from sports to shopping, from nightlife to recommended walks.

Hotels and restaurants in all price categories
From B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to elegant restaurants, we list hundreds of detailed reviews that show what is distinctive about each place.

Practical info that's completely up-to-date
Useful maps and background information; key contacts; how to get there and get around; when to go; what to pack; local do's and taboos; costs, hours, and tips by the thousands.

We've compiled a helpful list of guidebooks that complement Fodor's Montréal & Québec City 2000. To learn more about them, just enter the title in the keyword search box.Fodor's Citypack Montréal: A full-color pocket-size guidebook and a full-size color map, all in one sturdy plastic sleeve.
Fodor's Canada 2000Fodor's Exploring Canada: An information-rich cultural guide in full color. ... Read more

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Keep in the car
This book was great to have when I went to Canada. It gave me a lot of information on the places I wanted to see and places I did not know about. The authors sure know their way around. ... Read more

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Walk the fields where New France's fate was sealed, discover a former prison within an art museum, indulge in a six-course dinner showcasing local game, immerse yourself in one of the biggest and best jazz festivals in the world, or hit the slopes for some spectacular skiing —Fodor's Montréal and Québec City 2005 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout these cities to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."

-New compact trim size make these guides even more portable
-Two-color interior design makes it easier to find the information you need
-Fodor's Choice Ratings flag must-see sights and hidden treasures
-Hotel and restaurant reviews cover all budgets
-Plus multi-day itineraries to help you build the right trip for you and/or your family

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With Fodor’s you get much more than a guidebook–we make it easy for you to customize your dream vacation.

Visit www.fodors.com to find up-to-date travel bargains, mini-guides to worldwide destinations, information on local festivals, dazzling drives, maps, vacation planning tips and much more!

And, for more insider secrets, visit “Travel Talk” and “Rants and Raves” online at www.fodors.com/forums to get advice from other travelers like you. ... Read more

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Student's Review of Fodor's Montreal
Fodor's guide to Montreal and Quebec City was a fairly good tour guide book. The maps were easy to use and understand. Rather than having one large map, they're were 4 mini-maps of the places in Montreal to visit, making it effecient to travel. The map of the Metro system was also appreciated. All tour sites listed included was Metro line to take and where to get off. The guide was thorough and covered ALL tourist sites in Montreal. The only thing lacking in the guide was the amount of inexpensive restaurants listed, as well some admission prices were not correct. Overall a very good book for the first time traveller. Highly recommended. ... Read more