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Taste your way through the cocoa-centric universe of Montreal's vibrant chocolate-making scene on an expert led tour. Bounce between bean-to-bar boutiques and

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Montreal: Ultimate Chocolate Expedition

Duration: 4 hours

Location: This is a guided tour on foot in the Mile-End neighbourhood.

$135 CAD + tx

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Satisfy your sweet tooth! Get behind the scenes with people who live and breathe chocolate.

• Have a taste of at least 9 different kind of chocolates, a chocolate infusion, and a light savory chocolate-based meal.
• Spend time with chocolate experts and devotees and learn their personal stories.
• Learn about bean-to-bar and chocolate confection production.
• Learn about chocolate's origins and history through some very passionate Montreal chocolate connoisseurs.

We can accommodate all types of food restrictions except diabetics on this tour.

• The tour ends far from where we started. We have a little bus ride between the first and second stops.

We will be walking about 2.5 km (1.5 miles).

This tour is not recommended for children under 12 yrs or pregnant women.

We will email you all the details once you have booked the tour.

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You can probably name a few grape varietals; can you name any cacao varietals? Did you know that chocolate is twice as complex as wine? Learn about chocolate throughout history: from Mesoamerican and precolonial history, to colonial production, to industrial production, to the bean-to-bar movement. Come learn and taste with us! If you’re hungry for knowledge about everything chocolate and have a palette and nose eager to explore the subtleties of high-quality cacao, then this tour is perfect for you!

Taste MANY single origin chocolates, including many made in Montreal, which has become a mecca for some of the world’s best chocolate! Award-winning chocolate is on the menu, as is the visit to a chocolate factory with an intimate meeting with the chocolate maker. We will also do a tasting in the style of a wine tasting with some of the best and most unique chocolate the world has to offer. The sweet deliciousness will be balanced out with a light spicy and savory chocolate-based meal as well as other surprises!

Dive deep into the world of chocolate, meeting the people that work with it, learning about the plant and the history of chocolate, and, of course, tasting many varieties along the way. You will never look at this everyday treat the same when you taste just how good it can be.

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Chocolate tour: is there a lot of walking on this tour.

This tour has about 2.5 kilometres of walking or about 1.5 miles so please wear appropriate foot wear and dress for the weather conditions of the day.

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We recommend not to bring children under 12 as there are parts of the tour where there is a lot of information and it might be a bit too static for a younger child. There is also a lot of caffeine and this can be too much for children and for pregnant women. If you are with many children, it might be worth looking into a private tour where we can take you to stops that are more fun for kids.

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The Chocolate Tour finishes about 1 kilometer from where the tour starts.  There is paid parking close to the starting point and free parking if you are lucky. Details will be emailed to you once you book your tour.

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We eat a light meal on top of nine chocolate tastings.

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The tours are held rain, shine, or snow. In the event of inclement weather, we will be able to go inside many of the establishments on the tour. We also provide ponchos in case of sudden weather changes or if you do not have your own umbrella. However, we advise to check the weather conditions for your days event and dress appropriately.

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The whole experience is completely worth the money. In addition to the tastings and education, you can really learn to appreciate how amazing chocolate is and can be. I highly recommend the chocolate tour. On our next trip to Montreal, we definitely plan on signing up for another Round Table Tour!

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Walk through Montreal's history in former garment factory tour

Inside the Shmatte Factory is an engrossing addition to the popular walking tours offered by the Museum of Jewish Montreal. 

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Listen hard enough as you walk the wooden floorboards of the old Vineberg garment factory building and you can almost hear the whirring of sewing machines and the sound of shears cutting through fabric. Certainly you can imagine the needleworkers, heads down as they worked, most of them women, or the cutters, all men, better paid than the needleworkers.

It has been decades since the building at St-Laurent Blvd and Duluth Ave. housed Harris Vineberg’s Progress Brand factory, manufacturers of men’s suits, and decades since it was even called the Vineberg Building.

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But Inside the Shmatte Factory, an engrossing addition to the popular walking tours offered by the Museum of Jewish Montreal,  takes visitors back in time to when the city’s garment industry was robust, and recreates elements of that heyday. Shmatte is Yiddish for rag, but the term is used in a casual way to denote the clothing industry.

Ninety per cent of the eastern European Jews who came to Montreal in the second half of the 19th century settled along or near St-Laurent, the heart of the city’s garment industry for decades. Vineberg himself (1857-1942) was an immigrant, from Poland.

Between 1870 and 1930, the industry employed more workers than any other industry in Montreal. About 40 per cent of them were Jewish; most of the rest were French Canadian. But 75 to 80 per cent of the city’s Jews worked in the garment industry in some capacity. The tour examines the history of the community’s involvement in the industry through the lens of Progress Brand, Vineberg and the building itself, where the 90-minute tour takes place. Because it’s an indoor tour, it can run year-round.

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The Vineberg Building went up in the winter of 1911 to 1912 — unusually for the time, it used reinforced concrete — in what was otherwise the largely residential neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal. Like Mile End, it was a heavily Jewish neighbourhood at the time and signs for shops like the kosher butchers and grocery stores were in Yiddish, the language most commonly used.

“Vineberg built the factory here because the workers were already here,” said Kate Bauer, one of the original Inside the Shmatte Factory tour guides. She has a master’s degree in history from McGill University and, before returning this month to her native Toronto to pursue a PhD, she was one of several people involved with research for the tour; she also wrote the tour script.

Vineberg moved his factory to the Plateau from a smaller location in Old Montreal, nearer the original garment district. Progress Brand took up most of the space in the new building, but other clothing factories were also listed at the address.

Today, the building is a mixed-use residential and commercial space; the Museum of Jewish Montreal occupies part of the ground floor. Walls and doors block the view of the large south-facing windows through which daylight streamed onto the Progress Brand factory floor. The original wooden floors, however, are still intact.

The tour features a replica of the type of garment manufactured in Vineberg’s new factory: the sack suit. An alternative to homemade and bespoke suits, it was intended for the new middle class of the day, explained Bauer, 23. It was also a relatively straightforward garment to sew, with the back of the jacket in one piece, like a straight burlap sack.

One of several highlights of the tour is the opportunity to grab tablets and headphones and listen to first-person archival accounts from factory workers, some of whom were better paid than others. Cutters were the “aristocracy of the garment workers,” said Sidney Sarkin, presumably a cutter. They were paid by the hour. Needleworker Rose Esterson said in her account: “The workers used to slave from 7 in the morning to 10 at night, and got paid 50 cents for two dresses, can you believe?”

In the summer of 1912, mere months after the move to the Vineberg Building, there was a massive industry strike. About 4,500 workers of the nearly 10,000 workers went out on strike for 45 work days: About 4,000 of the strikers were Jewish.

That there weren’t more French Canadians on the picket lines was not surprising, said Bauer, considering the Catholic Church’s anti-union stance in 1912. And 70 per cent of the needleworkers were French Canadian; most were female and they tended to work in small sweatshops, not in large, unionized factories, so they had little bargaining power.

The strike was one of more than 100 that affected the industry between 1910 and 1920. A timeline of the 1912 strike features articles in the English and French press, including pieces by Vineberg, who advertised for — and hired — workers to replace the strikers, offered them room and board and housed them on his building’s fourth and fifth floors.

Progress Brand was sold in 1927 to the Guttman family, who operated it until the early 1990s, when it closed. At some point, the factory was moved to the Park-Extension area. In 1951, the St-Laurent Blvd. building was sold and renamed the Berman Building. Sadly, said Bauer, “a lot has been lost to history because we don’t have company records or Vineberg’s personal files.”

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Charles de Gaulle once famously quipped, “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” (The answer is: with pleasure, of course.) De Gaulle was talking about France, but the same could be said about Québec, which has over 400 types of cheese. For maximum sampling, embark upon a cheese crawl through Montréal and Québec, from stinky fromageries to a quiet abbey in the middle of the St Lawrence River. Bon appétit.

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Cheese plates, abbaye saint-benoît-du-lac, fromagerie la station in cantons de l’est, farm-to-fork on isle d’orléans near québec city.

Kick off your crawl at Montréal’s big cheese – Fromagerie Atwater. This perennially popular fromagerie, in the Atwater Market since 1972, sells over 700 local and international cheeses, from crumbly, veined blue cheeses to creamy goat cheeses tangy with orange rinds. A bonus is the excellent selection of micro-brews, which pair deliciously with many of the strong cheeses. Other top-notch fromageries include Fromagerie Hamel, with locations in the Atwater and Jean-Talon markets, and Fromagerie Fritz Kaiser, one of the region’s largest artisan cheesemakers, in Noyan, about an hour south of Montréal.

In most restaurants, cheese plates are an afterthought. Not so in Québec. Many Montréal and Québec City restaurants, particularly those that focus on local cuisine, whisk out excellent cheese plates or carts laden with local produce. In the latter, follow your nose to the St-Jean-Baptiste neighborhood, where you’ll find several historic groceries that feature an excellent selection of local cheeses, including Épicerie Européenne and Épicerie J.A. Moisan . In Montréal, head to Toqué, helmed by master chef Normand Laprise, or assemble your own cheese plate for an impromptu picnic.

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A monk’s life is spare, quiet and devotional. But at the Abbaye De Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, it’s also filled with pungent whiffs of cheese. The elegant abbey, topped by white-granite turrets and looming over a placid lake in Cantons de l’Est, is occupied by some sixty Benedictine monks. In addition to their Gregorian chants, they’re renowned for producing the famous L’Ermite blue cheese, and other varieties, at their on-site cheese factory. Stop by the store for a wedge or five, and then stay on for the daily Gregorian chant. (Daily at 11am and 5pm, Thurs at 7pm – though note that the schedule may be different in summer.)

If you’ve ever doubted that organic cheese tastes better, Fromagerie la Station will clear that up. This fromagerie’s signature Alfred Le Fermier, a hefty round of pale-orange, washed-rind cheese, comes from a single herd of Holsteins, which you can see roaming peacefully in the surrounding fields. This is organic cheese at its finest, as its many awards will attest. Four generations of the Bolduc family have worked the farm, which includes pastureland, stables, a ripening room and a store. The farm, southwest of the small town of Compton, offers guided tours through all the stages of production, topped off by sampling.

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