After breakfast at Best Friend's Diner, we left the Gaines Safe Harbour Marina and went under the bridge to Vermont and across the Canadian Border to dock at the Custom's office to get our passports stamped and to check into Canada. We then headed up the Richileau River to start through the series of locks and bridges along the Chambly Canal. We stopped around lunchtime and tied up to the Parks Canada dock before Lock 9 and walked to the lock to get our Parks Canada locking permit and park permit. We walked around town and ended up at Dorchester's pub for a beer and bacon poutine. Later that afternoon Park staff asked boats docked on each side of the river to move out of the fireworks zone in celebration of Quebec Day on Tuesday. We went through the drawbridge and the lock and pulled up to the floating dock on the other side behind two other boats.
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| Old fort on edge of Canadian Border |
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| Buoy marking border |
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| Canadian customs |
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| Mural at bridge 9, Chambly Canal |
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| Along the waterfront |
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| Sailboat with mast down locking through |
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| Park near the lock |
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| Toast to Quebec Day with bar topped with Canadian pennies |
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