La Vieille prison de Trois-Rivières (MQCP)

The place and historical factoids presented are interesting and the guides know their stuff. It really could help lasting an additional 15 minutes so they don't need to rush the group or cut some of the crunchy details.nLots of stairs, an older folk had to skip a few rooms.

The site is amazing but as English only visitors our experience was very limited . We had to join a tour which was only in French . It cost $21 each and was supposed to be 1hr . We were told information boards around the site had English translation. Unfortunately these were few and far between . Our tour guide was enjoying the group and after 1hour was only half way through . Google translate worked overtime but still disappointing not to have got the whole story. We still had another 1hr of driving to do so left tour after 75mins .

The Old Prison is attached to the POP Museum. You can see the Prison for 22$, POP for 18$, or both for 31$. The price of admission for the old prison comes with a mandatory tour guide. The tour was very interesting, full of history. It takes you all over the prison and shows you what it would have been like to be a criminal in years past.

An old prison refurbished and now open to the public. The guided tour will take you across the different parts of the prison with lots of stories and anecdotes from the years the prison was open. You can still see carved names and tags from prisoners across the building. It was amazing to hear the reasons why people ended up in jail for. The entrance is through the museum.

Great experience. Tour was really informative. They don't offer bilingual tours when we were there but I was able to translate for my family and the infographics on the walls were french and english. Don't forget to check out the museum attached as there's a section dedicated to the prison. Our tour guide was nice, knew lots about the prison. I would recommend this tour.