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Quebec uses the signs and shapes you are used to anywhere in North America - red stop sign for stop (except it says arret), yellow yield sign for yield (cedez), etc.
Road signs (e.g. highway markers) that have words on them are in French.
It is pretty easy -
sud = south
est = east,
ouest = west
nord = north
route = route
zone de construction = construction zone
mileage is in kilometres
Quebec road signage is similar to Europe in that pictograms are used for most things. (Though a few of the pictograms are different from those in Europe.) Aside from east-west-north-south, most of the wording on signs is actually place names, so making them bilingual would make St-Pierre become St-Pierre/St. Peter...
Some place names in Quebec used to be bilingual with an English name tacked on, like Trois-Rivières/Three Rivers, St-Jean/Saint John, Sept-Îles/Seven Islands, Deux-Montagnes/Two Mountains, but in most cases these have faded into disuse.
old thread but I've been trying to get people to stop using mapquest I rather see what location I'm going to and it's surrounding areas before I leave..
having said that I would like to go back up to Canada this year after like 4 years of missed trips last trip I did I took 91 North all the way to the border then had to turn around.
So I went on google streets and from the looks it looks really nice, one question I have to ask because I'm a avid photographer do I have any spots to pull off to photograph at night? And more so to make sure my car is off the road safely and not fearing for wildlife?
Where exactly are you thinking of pulling off the road?surely not on the side of interstate/autoroute highways.
As for those bilingual road signs? yeah sure
And interstingly, there are many, many countries where "stop" isn't used, like Mexico, Chile, China, Russia, etc. In French, both "stop" and "arrêt" are perfectly acceptable.
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