Whether you’re in the Montreal or Ottawa area, I bet you didn’t know that you are only 1 1/2 hours away from an exciting safari adventure. Parc Omega is the perfect day outing for kids (and folks) of all ages. It’s an 800 hectare park where the animals roam free and you are “caged” in your car. It’s such an easy drive to be able to come face to face with Canadian wildlife: reindeer, elk, arctic wolf and fox, bison, musk ox, turkey, boar, coyote, black bear, and many kinds of deer.

Along a 12-kilometere safari nature route which takes you past lakes, meadows, small valleys, forests and rocky hills, you meander at your own pace. You can pick up bag of carrots at the visitor center (or bring your own), and as you slowly make your way through, you are allowed to open the windows to feed the wildlife. Kids are thrilled that they do not have to be in their car seats here and can flit from side to side of the vehicle to say hello to the animals.

You tune your radio to a station which fills you in on all sorts of information about the species you will be seeing.

• We learned which males are good daddies and stay around to raise the youngsters and which ones only show up for mating season.
• I never knew that the musk oxen’s heads are strong as hammers and they butt and knock everything down. Their quarters are specially built to withstand their strength.
•  You pass by low slung “condos” for boars designed to keep the big predators out.
• Coming here in winter gives you the opportunity to see how the arctic fox blends into the snowscape.

About 2/3 through, there’s a place to stop,  get out to stretch legs and visit some wooden buildings for bathrooms, gifts, food and hot cocoa. Friendly deer are in the parking area to get a snack too – those carrots – buy lots.

This is one experience that all Canadian families should take advantage of. It’s not only educational and fun, but will bring lasting memories for the whole family.

Location: Parc Omega is a safari park in Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Quebec, Canada
Address: 399 Route 323 North, Montebello, QC J0V 1L0 Click for map 

Phone: (819) 423-5487
www.parcomega.ca

Expresco is the place to stock up when you are having a crowd for dinner, or just want an easy meal at the end of a long day or might be having last minute guests. They can sell to you at wholesale prices for large quantities.

This week, try their 4kg of chicken cubes for $30 or the Sriracha chicken skewers, 50 brochettes for $40, which comes to  less than $1 each. There’s a sale price on 4 Kg of fully cooked turkey strips for $30. To accompany the meats, don’t forget pita bread, which are 40 pitas for only $10.

Expresco specializes in creating top quality, easy to cook skewers and also sell a variety of frozen cooked foods. Shopping at a food wholesale outlet means you get great pricing.

Open since 1987, Expresco Foods is the leading manufacturer of meat-on-a-stick and their state-of-the-art facility ensures the strictest health standards are enforced.

Payment Methods: Visa, Mastercard, Debit

Location: 8205 Transcanadienne, VSL H4S 1S4 / Google Map: http://bit.ly/29rG4Ex
corner: Poirier
Tel: 514-344-9499 x 270
Date: Sept 21-24
Time: Wed-Fri 10-6,
www.exprescofoods.com
outlet@exprescofoods.com

Expresco specializes in creating top quality, easy to cook skewers and also sell a variety of frozen cooked foods. Shopping at a food wholesale outlet means you get great pricing.

Open since 1987, Expresco Foods is the leading manufacturer of meat-on-a-stick and their state-of-the-art facility ensures the strictest health standards are enforced.

This is the place to stock up when you are having a crowd for dinner, or just want an easy meal at the end of a long day or might be having last minute guests. They can sell to you at wholesale prices for large quantities.

This week, take your choice of their specials, with something new on the menu. Try their Tandoori chicken cubes which are 4 Kg for $40 and while you are there, don’t forget the sriracha chicken skewers, 50 brochettes for $50, which comes to a nominal fee of $1 each. To accompany the skewers, don’t forget pita bread, which are 40 pitas for only $10.

Expresco is also offering you for a limited time, 4 Kg of fully cooked turkey strips for the sale price of $40 rather than $50.

Think of Expresco food outlet, when it is just too hot to cook, like today!

Payment Methods: Visa, Mastercard, Debit

Location: 8205 Transcanadienne, VSL H4S 1S4 / Google Map: http://bit.ly/29rG4Ex
corner: Poirier
Tel: 514-344-9499 x 270
Date: Aug 3-6
Time: 11-3
www.exprescofoods.com
outlet@exprescofoods.com

Expresco is the place to stock up when you are running behind, having a crowd for dinner, or just want an easy meal at the end of a long day. They have wholesale pricing for large quantities – -perfect for that minute guest or guests. This week, you can purchase a 4 kg case of fully cooked regular chicken or turkey strips for only $50. If you choose the cajun flavor of chicken strips, the price changes to: 4 kg for $40 These are prices that cannot be beat.

Expresco specializes in creating top quality, easy to cook skewers and now they are selling more variety of frozen cooked foods. Shopping at a food wholesale outlet means you get great pricing.

Open since 1987, Expresco Foods is the leading manufacturer of meat-on-a-stick and their state-of-the-art facility ensures the strictest health standards are enforced.

No cash payments.

Location: 8205 Transcanadienne, VSL H4S1S4
corner: Poirier
Tel: 514-344-9499 x 270
Dates: While quantities last
Time: Wed-Fri 10-6, Sat 9-3
www.exprescofoods.com
outlet@exprescofoods.com

Well let’s see – you can pay full price for gold jewelry in full-price retail stores downtown or you can go up to Bijouterie Oro, a wholesaler, and save half your money. Since 1987, this 3rd generation jeweler has been selling wholesale, and now is open up to the public. Lucky us.

There is lots of golden stock to choose amongst, more than you would see in your small local jewelry store. You could go nutsy over the vast assortment of gold hoop earrings – they sell them by weight. You can select amongst the 100’s of chains; they are strong in 2-tone and 3-colors of gold from Italy or Turkey. There’s 14-carat Italian chain bracelets too, and lots of little religious pendants.

If you want to buy illusion diamond studs, they have those too. These earrings give the illusion of a whole stone, but are made up of little ones – for a much littler price.

If you have an older diamond (or any other precious stone) ring and you’d like to change it into something more modern, they can show you trays and trays of semi-mounts (that’s what your stone sits in), so you can see exactly what the ring will look like – it can even be tried on. You can take jewelry which has been just sitting in a jewelry box and have it re-modeled.

Bijouterie Oro still does local manufacturing, so they can reproduce a piece of jewelry from a photo. And they can repair your broken jewelry too.

If you decide to have something made from scratch, it would take only two weeks from the time you walk in the door until you happily present it to Mom.

Location: 1255 Phillips Square, Suite 1010
Tel: 514-393-1721 or 514-575-7511
Hours: by appointment only, Mon-Fri 9-4:30
orojewelleryinc@gmail.com
www.smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=280

Quechua Imports has a wide variety of gift items for every taste and budget as there are gifts from $1 and up from countries around the world:  Bali, Java, Lombok, Sumba, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, China, Tibet, Morocco, Tunisia, Africa, Turkey, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan, Romania, Bulgaria, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico.

You will find intricate carvings of wood and marble and exotic textiles. Here is a sampling of what you may come across at this sale: jewelry items, hand carved wooden masks and panels, mirrors of all sizes and shapes, cushion covers, metal Buddhist and animal objects, cloissoné items, placemats, toys, scarves and hand carved wooden pop-art animals such as lucky elephants, cats or horses.

If you are the type of person who appreciates unusual hand crafted objects and would like to spice up your decor, or are an avid traveler who likes to travel light (and not carry souvenirs), but would like to own some objects you have seen during your trips, or if you simply wish to buy a gift, this sale is the right one for you. 

Buying an item from far away will always be remembered whether it’s for a gift or to treat yourself. All the items at the sale were collected by a wanderer with insatiable appetite for travel. Taxes are included in the price.

Location: 4710 chemin Queen Mary, # 9
corner: ave Victoria
Tel: 514-739-5744
Date and Hours:  Sun Dec 21: 1-5
Metro Station Snowdon
www.quechuaimports.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuechuaInternationalBazaar
email: donnadavidson35@gmail.com

If you are the type of person who appreciates unusual hand crafted objects and would like to spice up your decor, or are an avid traveler who likes to “travel light”, but would like to own some objects you have seen during your trips, or if you simply wish to buy a gift, this sale is the right one for you.

At Quechua Imports, there are reasonably priced objects for every taste and every price range from places such as: Bali, Java, Lombok, Sumba, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, China, Tibet, Morocco, Tunisia, Africa, Turkey, Uzbekistan, India,  Pakistan, Romania, Bulgaria, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico.

Buying an item from far away as a Christmas gift or even to treat yourself , will always be remembered. This sale will have lots of exotic and unusual item. Taxes are included in the price. All the items are from a wanderer’s insatiable appetite for traveling.

Location: 4710 chemin Queen Mary, # 9
corner: ave Grosvenor
Tel: 514-739-5744
Hours: Sun Dec. 7, 3-10, Sat Dec. 13, 1-5, Sun Dec. 14, 1-5, Sun Dec 21, 1-5
Metro Station Snowdon
www.quechuaimports.com
email: donnadavidson35@gmail.com

This no-fee warehouse food store is piled 15-20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and then some. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club and the stock stays consistent throughout the year.

It’s the perfect place to purchase gourmet food items for holiday gifts, perhaps: a pasta maker ($46.99), balsamic vinegar ($24.99), oil and vinegar basket ($27.99), raclette maker ($12.99), Baci chocolates in a wine bottle ($11.99), chocolates liqueurs ($15.99), olive oil from Provence ($14.99),  olive oil from Sicily ($15.99), assorted box of teas ($17.99), panettone ($31.99),  Moroccan tagine ($25.99).

You spend less preparing your holiday meal by shopping for your food here.

There’s 500 kinds of cheese, ethnic foods (Latino, Indian, Asian, Mideastern) and they import their fresh produce themselves – no middleman.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, you can purchase for your holiday dinners select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, Halal meat, leg of pig, tongue, or oxtails. They make homemade sausages and sell fish and seafood. They have a whole kosher poultry section.with chicken, turkey and Cornish hens.

It’s fun to shop around and find items like 10 kg. Skippy peanut butter, an entire prosciutto ham or smoked meat, 15 kg honey, 80 types of olive oils (even organic), 3.5L bags of chocolate chips, pop-up aluminum foil sheets, 6 x 1 kg. bags of espresso coffee or little paper lunch bags.

Location: 5650 Boul. Metropolitan Blvd. East, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-4:30, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-4:30, Sun 9-4
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

This no-fee warehouse food store is piled 15-20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and then some. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club and is consistent with what you can find.

They have a whole kosher poultry section with: chicken – whole, boneless breast, bone-in breast, wings, minced dark meat, legs with back, chicken bones for soup or cut-up into 1/4’s . Turkey is there – half breast with back, drumsticks, wings and Cornish hens.

There’s 500 kinds of cheese, ethnic foods (Latino, Indian, Asian, Mideastern) and they import their fresh produce themselves – no middleman.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, you can select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, Halal meat, leg of pig, tongue, or oxtails. They make homemade sausages and sell fish and seafood.

It’s fun to shop around and find items like 10 kg. Skippy peanut butter, an entire prosciutto ham or smoked meat, 15 kg honey, 80 types of olive oils (even organic), 3.5L bags of chocolate chips, pop-up aluminum foil sheets, 6 x 1 Kg. bags of espresso coffee or little paper lunch bags.

Location: 5650 Boul. Metropolitan Blvd. East, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-4:30, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-4:30, Sun 9-4
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

Mother’s Day is this Sunday. If you haven’t picked up anything, why not buy Mom something sparkly which she’ll have for many years and she’ll remember you each time she puts it on?

Well let’s see – you can pay full price for gold jewelry in full-price retail stores downtown or you can go up to Bijouterie Oro, a wholesaler, and save half your money. Since 1987, this 3rd generation jeweler has been selling wholesale, and now is open up to the public. Lucky us.

There is lots of golden stock to choose amongst, more than you would see in your small local jewelry store. You could go nutsy over the vast assortment of gold hoop earrings – they sell them by weight. You can select amongst the 100’s of chains; they are strong in 2-tone and 3-colors of gold from Italy or Turkey. There’s 14-carat Italian chain bracelets too, and lots of little religious pendants.

If you want to buy Mom illusion diamond studs, they have those too. These earrings give the illusion of a whole stone, but are made up of little ones – for a much littler price.

If she has an older diamond (or any other precious stone) ring and you’d like to change it into something more modern, they can show you trays and trays of semi-mounts (that’s what your stone sits in), so you can see exactly what the ring will look like – it can even be tried on. You can take jewelry which has been just sitting in her jewelry box and have it re-modeled.

Bijouterie Oro still does local manufacturing, so they can reproduce a piece of jewelry from a photo. And they can repair your broken jewelry too.

If you decide to have something made from scratch, it would take only two weeks from the time you walk in the door until you happily present it to Mom.

Location: 1255 Phillips Square, Suite 1010
Tel: 514-393-1721 or 514-575-7511
Hours: by appointment only, Mon-Fri 9-4:30
orojewelleryinc@gmail.com
www.smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=280