Hi, All -- Quebec City is an amazing place -- historic, picturesque, charming, beautiful, fascinating, full of life, a city of Old Europe in North America and very, very French. Wikipedia calls it "the cradle of French civilization in North America." This fall we stayed in the same campground as we did in the fall of 2005, located in the little town of Levis right on the St. Lawrence looking across at Quebec City. Both days we took the ferry from Levis to QC and back, $12 round trip for senior citizens. This is a very old city by New World standards. Samuel de Champlain first established a fur-trading post on the St. Lawrence River in the location that became QC in 1608. In its 400 year history, QC has almost always been the capital of
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