Montreal
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] June 23, 1911 Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear and cool with light w.[west] wind.
At Place Viget [Place Viger] excellent hotel, American
plan, run by C.P.R [Canadian Pacific Railway] & over their central
station but without noise from it.
I have a fine large room & bathroom
for $5.00 including food which is very good as
is service also. The front outlook is on a
city park shed by trees & bright with
flowers. Went to White Star dock after
breakfast to hunt up luggage sent from
Boston last Monday finding it on wharf.
Went shopping on St. Catherine St. in
P.M. French element predominant everywhere.
French lettering on stores, French books & novels
in their windows, French language spoken far
more than English in streets & cars. Had trouble
about enquiring way so few could understand me.
Parks swarming with House Sparrows; no
native birds in any that I visited.
Spent most of evening in smoking room 
talking with two delightful Englishmen
who had just landed & were going to
British Columbia.

Montreal to Quebec
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] June 24, 1911 Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with light west wind. Perfect day.
"Laurentia" sailed promptly at 9 A.M.
Triple screw, about 14890 tons, new, clean,
very comfortable, good table, fairly good service.
Found Grace Keyes, Miss Roberts Miss Morrill & Miss Hobbs
on board. Day spent largely on deck. River
broad & straight, shores low & flat with a
few high hills or low mountains in distance.
Mostly farming country with scattered houses.
Scenery tame & uninteresting. Not many birds
Red-wings, Crow Blackbirds, Crows, a
few Herring Gulls, one tree swallow. Numbers
of large mosquitos with dull grass green
bodies came aboard & bit some of passengers.
Reached Quebec at 8.30. Tremendously
impressive in gloaming with western sky still
radiant, electric lights blazing, smoke of
steamers swirling about fortress & stars
twinkling overhead. Heard Night Hawk peeping
as we lay at anchor off docks for hour or more.