The replica canal schooner Lois McClure, and its crew have spent part of this summer traveling up the St. Lawrence River.

Celebrations will take place tomorrow in Quebec City as Quebeckers mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of their city, and Vermont will be well represented by the crew of the replica schooner Lois McClure. Art Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is aboard the ship. He speaks with VPR's Mitch Wertlieb.

The Lois McClure, an 88-foot full-scale replica of a 19th century lake freighter, sets sail from Lake Champlain's Basin Harbor today bound for Quebec City.

In a few weeks, a reproduction of a 19th century boat that plied the waters of Lake Champlain will set sail for Quebec City. The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's replica canal schooner, the Lois McClure, will visit Quebec to help mark the city's 400th anniversary. As VPR's Ross Sneyd reports, the festivities in Quebec also start the observation of a big anniversary in the Champlain Valley.

This Fourth of July commentator Tom Slayton is celebrating a new link to the history of Lake Champlain.