Fall colours: Laurentians a popular destination for leaf-peeping day trippers

Ghislain Parizeau of Croisières Alouette in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, about 100 km north of Montreal in the Laurentians, has a question for passengers boarding one of his boats for a cruise of Lac des Sables and a view of the splendid fall foliage: Have they noticed, he asks, the red maple leaf in the centre of the Canadian flag?
As the days shorten and the nights lengthen, many of Quebec’s trees don their autumn palette of oranges and golds as well as the reds that evoke the flag&rsquo