Across the border

Today we drove to Fermont (translates to Iron Mountain), another mining town about thirty minutes drive away. Fermont is in the province of Quebec so it is french speaking and all signs etc are in french.  It is also one hour behind Lab City.  The real reason we went to Fermont was to buy alcohol!  Last week Steve went to buy some beer in Wabush and the guy in the shop said 'why are you buying this here?  You should go to Fermont!' 

Bienvenue

Fermont is contained in one big building, we didn't see much of it but it contains a supermarket, specialty stores, a bowling alley, a cinema, restaurants and a hotel.  We bought some essentials at the liquor store, including some Australian red wine, Steve was pleased that after selling our bottles of red for $10, we were paying $17.99 CAD (plus taxes) to replace them!  The liquor store doesn't sell beer so we went to the supermarket to buy a carton (36) of Coors.  A carton of Corona (24) was $33.99 CAD (plus taxes) which was much cheaper than we were paying in Karratha (and we thought Karratha was cheaper than Queensland).  Steve reasoned that we should make the most of our cool room in the basement so needless to say we stocked up on Corona.

Fermont, Quebec Province

Do all mining towns have a dump truck on display on the way into town?

Crossing the border back into Newfoundland province