Quebec City
Quebec City (Ville de Québec in French) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the second largest city in Quebec, behind Montreal. It is known for its winter fair, beautiful churches, and an old hotel called Château Frontenac. It is next to the Saint Lawrence River. There are around 550,000 people in the city, and over 800,000 people in the metropolitan area.
The city was created in 1608 at a First Nations (native) Canadian place called Stadacona. People came from France to live there. The English captured the city in 1759 during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The walls made to keep the city safe are still there. The walls that surrounded Old Quebec are the only remaining fortified city walls that still exist in the Americas north of Mexico. They were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.[1]
Quebec City has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).
Most people in Quebec City speak French.
Media
Quebec City Media
- Jacques Cartier rencontre les indiens de Stadacone, 1535.jpg
Depiction of Jacques Cartier's meeting with the indigenous people of Stadacona in 1535
Plaque honouring the first settlers of Québec City. (affixed to back of monument to Guillaume Couillard, which accompanies those to Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet). Parc Montmorency, Québec City.
After a campaign of three months British forces captured Quebec City after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
British regulars and Canadian militia engage the Continental Army in the streets of the city. The Americans' failure to take Quebec in 1775 led to the end of their campaign in Canada.
- Loading ship with square timber through the bow port Quebec City QC 1872.jpg
Square timber being loaded on a sail ship at the port of Québec in 1872
- The Quebec Conference, Canada, August 1943 TR1347.jpg
Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Earl of Athlone (left to right) at the First Quebec Conference, a secret military conference held in World War II
- Québec City – Boulevard Champlain - Le Fleuve Saint-Lorent - panoramio (1).jpg
The Promontory of Quebec at the narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River and surrounded by the Laurentian Mountains
- Château Frontenac after a freezing rain day in Quebec city.jpg
Winter scene at the Château Frontenac
Map of the six boroughs that make up Quebec City
Québec City - Saint Louis - panoramio (cropped)
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References
- ↑ "Historic District of Old Québec". UNESCO. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
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