Oh wow, Tone! Looks beautiful, and thank you!
That's probably the Avalon, which departed Montreal on Oct. 18.
The Cabot departs Montreal on Oct. 22, so you'll probably see that on Oct. 23 in Rimouski.
Make sure you check for the Connaigra, which departs Montreal on Oct. 25. I forget the exact phrasing that makes the statement accurate, but it's something like "the largest container ship operating in Canadian waters". It's Oceanex's brand new one. And it's massive. It was in St. John's a week or so ago for its grand welcome. That one ship increased the overall carrying capacity of Oceanex's fleet by 50%.
It's named after:
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Connaigre was a small fishing community located on the southern tip of the Connaigre Peninsula of the south coast of the island. Connaigre was listed as Cap Negre (Cape Negro) in the Census of French Population and Agriculture, 1686 with a total population of seventy-two. It was the second largest French fishing station after Plaisance, the French capital of Newfoundland. Connaigre was conquered by the English, renamed Great Harbour, and in the 1763 census, had 5 English inhabitants (this census recorded only male heads of household) and twenty-eight servants recorded. In the 1836 census the population was forty-three. In 1954 the entire community of twelve remaining families was resettled under the Centralization Program by the Newfoundland government.
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