Quebec City, Quebec

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Vieux-Quebec ("Old Town") is a U.N.E.S.CO. world heritage site. Quebec City is the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist. "Kebec" is the Algonquin (aboriginal NE Canadians) word for "where the river narrows". French explorer Jacques Cartier built a fort here in 1535, and then returned to France. Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608

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Photos

Sun-streamed streets of the walled city
The "high" temperature for the day was 4 degrees farenheit

Province of Quebec was highly sought after by both French & English because of the St. Lawrence River
Whoever controlled Quebec would own the fur trade, the lumber trade, etc..

Bataille des Plaines du Abraham
In 1759 the French & the British Armies fought on the Plains of Abraham. The battle lasted 1/2 hour, the general of each army died, England won so Quebec became a French province of a British country.

Cannon ball from 1759
When Britian won the final battle the English bombarded the streets with 30,000+ cannon balls: this 1 remains.

The Saint Lawrence River
It's "smoking" because the air is colder than the water. Quebec City is aprx 500 miles inward, via the river, from the Atlantic Ocean.

Chateau Frontenac
Overlooks the St. Lawrence River. (This is where we stayed.) It was built in 1892 & is named after the French govenor of Canada who ruled 1672-1698,

Promenade de la Pointe-a-Carcy
is along the hotel and provides a view of the south shore of Q.C. across the St. Lawrence River.

The wall was built by the French Army to keep out the British & American Armies. It is 3.4 miles long.
The trees are wrapped to protect them from the severe cold.

Parliament Building
Quebec City is the capitol of the province of Quebec. It was formerly the Capitol of Canada.

Sainte Anne de Beaupre
is the oldest chrine (first built in 1658 by shipwrecked sailors) in Quebec. Anne was the grandmother of Jesus, Mary was her and Joachim's daughter.

Pont De L'ile D'Orleans Bridge
connects the North Bank to the Isle of Orleans

In 1847 Quebec took in over 100K hungry Irish immigrants who left Ireland due to the potato famine.
Recently Ireland sent this Celtic cross as a tribute to the gratitude of the Irish people.

"Carnaval Quebec" is the largest winter carnival in the world.
It is held for 2 weeks in February. We were in Q.C. December so we missed the carnival but it was beautifully lit up for the holidays.