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Two autoroutes (highways) cover the 270km between Montreal and Quebec City, though plenty of VIA Rail trains and Voyagueur buses also trawl the route: the boring Hwy 20 cuts along the south shore of the St Lawrence, and the even more banal Hwy 40 takes to the north side with very few rest-stops en route, so fill up before leaving Montreal. The slower Hwy 138 also meanders along the north shore but gives a closer look at rural Quebec and farms left over from the seigneurial regime, like the Seigneurie de Terrebonne (late June to Aug Tues-Sun 10am-8pm; free), on the Ile des Moulins about thirty minutes northeast of downtown Montreal via Hwy 25 (exit 17 est). A seigneury from 1673 to 1883, the restored nineteenth-century buildings - including the manor house of the area's last seigneur and Canada's first francophone millionaire, Joseph Masson - powerfully evoke life under the old regime.
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