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The mansion at number 575 Grande Allée captures attention day and night. In the light of day, you notice an eclectic combination of architectural features: on one side, a Tudor gable, with dark wooden timbers; on the other, a squat, conical tower, held up by Corinthian columns. The main entrance is sheltered by a recessed […]
Born in Guelph, Canada, in 1872, John McCrae found himself on a faraway battlefield in the spring of 1915. As an army doctor surrounded by the dead and dying, he could see like no one else the price paid by his fellow soldiers. Indeed, a close friend of his, fellow Ontarian Alexis Helmer, had recently
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Québec City is the only city north of Mexico to have retained its city walls. Many cities in North America had walls. Montreal had a city wall, but that wall is long gone. New York City had a wall, but it is long gone as well; Wall Street is the sole vestige. Here in the
By the beginning of the sixteenth century, European fishermen were coming annually to the eastern shores of North America. They came in search of the cod that congregated by the millions on the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic. One contemporary account says that the cod were so numerous that sailors could harvest them by merely lowering
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On September 10, 1759, General James Wolfe summoned a group of his subalterns to a small camp on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River called Gorham’s Post. Just below the mouth of the Etchemin River, Gorham’s Post offered good reconnaissance of the promontory of Québec. General Wolfe had spent all summer trying to
For Québec City residents, the funny looking word “Limoilou” refers to the vibrant, unpretentious neighborhood just to the north and west of the old city. Lying along the north shore of the St. Charles River, Limoilou overflows with boulangeries and bicycle shops. Any tourist who wanders across the river will be well rewarded with a
Le 3 avril dernier, l’histoire de la Nouvelle-France s’est réécrite encore une fois, et d’une manière qui était tout à fait imprévisible par ceux qui l’ont vécue… Marie Guyart est née en France en 1599. Fille d’un boulanger, elle est donnée en mariage à un très jeune âge. Veuve aussitôt après, elle s’occupe de son
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Peeking over the western walls of Old Quebec is McGreevy House, a stately, Italian-renaissance masterpiece that is as old as the Canadian confederation itself. Fittingly, the story of its construction is closely linked to the construction of the Parliament buildings in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa. Thomas McGreevy was born in 1823 to Irish parents.
Québec City’s St. John Street starts within the city walls and stretches westward, becoming the central artery of the St. Jean-Baptiste neighborhood. It is one of the most vibrant and colorful thoroughfares in all the city. Lined with restaurants, bookstores, and specialty shops of all sorts, it is always, in any weather, bustling with activity.
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For most of the 17th and 18th century, Québec City was the capital of a vast, new French empire. At its largest – around the year 1700 – New France extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. It was a virtual empire, however, as there