Dear B-Liners:
Tour Program managed by Agri-Cultural Tours
In cooperation with the Ontario Beekeepers Association
PRE-EASTERN CANADA SYMPOSIUM TOUR ITINERARY
Day 1 - Thursday, July 09 - Departure and pick-up Locations
Bus 1 - Northern Group
Sudbury-N. Bay-Ottawa-Montreal
Bus 2 - Central Group
Barrie-Peterbor.-Belleville-Montreal
Bus 3 - Southern Group
London -Kitchener-Toronto-Montreal
Day 2 - Friday, July 10 Montreal - Quebec City
Breakfast at the hotel - check-out!
Northern Group
The first stop will be a visit to Ferme Lune De Miel (Richard
Cot,). After this fascinating tour we will travel to
Wottonville and have lunch (included) locally, followed by a
visit to Miellerie Lambert Inc. (Paul Lambert). We then
visit Chapleau s at St. Adrien de Ham before we depart for
Quebec City/Ste. Foy. After we arrive in Ste. Foy, we will
check in and then have an optional visit to Old Quebec City.
Tonight dinner on your own. Pick-up group in Old Quebec.
Central and Southern Groups
Today the central and southern groups will visit Intermiel,
near St. Eustache. After our visit to Intermiel (Macles) we
will have lunch (included). Following lunch we travel south
for a visit to Ferme Lune De Miel, (Richard Cot,).
Following the visit to Ferme Lune de Miel, we depart for
> Quebec City/Ste. Foy, check in and then have an optional visit
to Old Quebec City. Tonight dinner will be on your own. We
> will arrange to pick-up the group in Old Quebec.
All three groups will overnight together at the Holiday Inn in Ste. Foy
Day 3 - Saturday, July 11 Quebec City
Breakfast at the hotel - Depart for Symposium in Deschambault - display tables/ show of beekeeping equipment,
demonstrations, French /English simultaneously translated speakers amongst others: Nikolaus Koeniger from Germany.
Return to the Holiday Inn in Ste. Foy
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> BUS TOUR REGISTRATION FORM
(SELECT YOUR ROUTE AND OPTIONS ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THIS FORM)
FIRST NAME LAST NAME SPOUSE S FIRST NAME
> ADDRESS TOWN OR CITY PROVINCE & POSTAL CODE
AREA CODE / PH. NUMBER FAX NUMBER EMAIL ADDRESS
> Deposit to guarantee a place on the tour is $125.00/person deposit enclosed: $
A receipt and invoice for balance due will be mailed upon receipt of deposit! Day 4 - Sunday, July 12 Quebec City
> Northern Group
Central and Southern Group
Day 5, Monday, July 13 Montreal - home - All Groups
Following a group breakfast at the hotel, we all proceed to home regions - drop-offs in same locations as pick-ups!
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Prices for Groups: Double Single Transport
Deposit of $125/person needed to guarantee space!
Inclusions:
> deluxe motor coach with several pick-up and drop-off
locations
3 star* accommodations (4 nights)
4 breakfasts - full Canadian style
3 lunches throughout tour
transfers to and from Symposium Site
admission to attractions
fully escorted tour program
Exclusions:
meals not specifically mentioned in program
items of a personal nature - i.e. phone calls, mini-bar,
pay T.V., laundry, etc.
Out of province medical insurance - group rate
Options:
> Dinner in Montreal - $25.00 all inclusive - choice of 1
of 3 entree s, Restaurant Le Vieux Port located in the
Old Port Area of Montreal
In order to take advantage of our discounted package rates, they MUST be booked through Agri-Cultural Tours
4 night package - accommodations at Hotel Le Cantlie Suites (July 9), $425.00/room (taxes
included)
Holiday Inn Ste Foy (July 10 & 11) & Chateau Versailles, Montreal (July 12) $212.50/person - sharing
This price is based on 2 people/room - one or 2 beds as required.
Optional breakfast package - 4 buffet breakfasts. $ 50.00 (taxes and tips included)
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BUS TOUR REGISTRATION FORM - SELECT OPTIONS HERE
Number of Participants:
Select Appropriate Group:
> Northern Central Southern
Food or other allergies?
Out of Prov. medical insurance: Yes No
Smoking room? Non-smoking?
1 Queen size bed or 2 doubles
Optional dinner - Montreal @ $25 inclusive:#
For Individual (non-group) Hotel bookings with or
without optional breakfast option - please call our toll free
number and book directly with us. These rates will not be
given if you call the hotel directly!
For information about tour registration and speak to
Bruce, Gerda or Karin toll free at 1-888-297-8334
> All major Credit Cards Accepted!
Mailing address for registration & cheques:
Agri-Cultural Tours
1120 Victoria St. N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2B 3T2
FAX: (519) 745-5694 / email: [log in to unmask]
web: www.agriculturaltours.com
Cancellation penalty if cancelled under
30 days prior to departure
Cheques are payable to: Agri-Cultural Tours
Deposit of $125/person needed to guarantee space!
Eastern Canada Apicultural Symposium
Motor Coach Tour Program Technical Tours
(Descriptions of each location to be visited)
July 9 - 13, 1998
Intermiel Operated by Viviane and Christian Macle at Mirable, these entrepreneurs have five businesses: 1)
1600 colonies of bees, 2) honey packing and marketing to 100 stores, 3) tourist business with store,
4) commercial mead production, 5) commercial maple syrup producer with 3000 taps. Each part of
> the business has its own personnel. The store area and tourist approach are excellent. They have a
glassed in extracting area and screened in porch to observe the bees. They market a great deal of mead
on the premises and production can be observed through a glass wall.
Ferme Lune De Miel Operated by Richard Cote at Stoke, this is an excellent tourist place with a beautiful building and
grounds, a very realistic queen bee as a wind vane. Visitors hear an hour long presentation and see
an excellent display with huge model bees. The facility also has a screened in porch for live bee
demonstrations in their garden. They also have a glassed in extracting room to see the honey being
processed.
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Musee De L Abeille Take a Bee Safari, observe thousands of bees at work, the queen, or the birth of a bee. This is a
fascinating presentation done with humor. The museum accommodates not only the bee safari , but
an interesting educational segment, homemade delicacies, a gift shop and a mead winery.
Miellerie Du Musee De L Abeille This newly established part of the Musee De L Abeille has an extraction plant
> where the extracting process can be viewed behind glass and a warehouse. They do
mead production and have an instructional area where they teach students. The
honey gift shop is open to visitors from all parts of the world.
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre Shrine This magnificent and gigantic church attracts approximately a million and a half
visitors. The first church was built in 1658, the first Basilica built in 1876 but was
destroyed by fire in 1922. The present Basilica was built in 1923 and was
consecrated on July 4, 1976.
> Group 1 -Northern group - Exclusive visits:
Miellerie Lambert Inc. This 1800 hive operation, run by Paul Lambert at Wottonville, has a complete air operated
120 frame Cowan self loading line with a de-boxer and the Cowan honey wax separator.
Quebec beekeepers are very careful to separate and market honey from various floral sources.
Paul is ingenious at making all kinds of equipment for beekeeping and has an excellent
barrel turner for his electric forklift. He also has a boom loader on each truck and has
> worked out radio controls to do away with cables. The booms are used for both hive
movement and to load honey. The melting room contains a dairy tank with the capacity for
six barrels of honey. The three brothers involved in this very efficient set up pack and market
to over 100 stores.
Chapleau Ent. Jean Pierre has an excellent honey bee queen producing operation with 400 hives and 1800 queen
> mating nuclei located at St. Adrien de Ham. He has worked hard to select excellent stock and is
testing for hygienic behavior in his bees and is showing 80% hygienic bees. There is only one other
queen producer in Quebec and they produce most of the mated queens (6-7000). Jean Pierre has also
developed a hot wax dip process for treating supers. The hot wax is absorbed right into the wood and
really protects the wood.
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Exit 257
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> Centre de recherche
120 Chemin du Roy
Agri-Cultural Tours
Official Technical Tour Operator for
World Apimondia Congress 1999 - Vancouver, Canada
As you may well know, Canada has the honour of hosting the World Apimondia 1999 Convention in Vancouver in September
of 1999. This event will bring technical experts, professional beekeepers and hobby beekeepers from around the world to one
place, Vancouver, Canada.
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Medhat Nasr
Ontario Beekeepers' Association
Dept. Environmental Biology
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
N1G 2W1
Tel: (519) 824-4120
Fax:(519)837-0442
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