Ville de Quebec is the oldest city in Canada when dealing with a Province that was a founder of the "Confederation" and it is the only city in North America that is totally walled outside of Ciudad de Campeche in México and San Juan de Puerto Rico's old city or El Viejo San Juan. The city was developed overlooking the Saint Laurence and it all started with a Castle built by the great adventurer and Seaman named Samuel de Champlain, and this was in 1608 on the 3rd of July.
The legendary Skyline of the city
Samuel de Champlain came to Acadia and then explored the Saint Laurence which almost 100 years before it was discovered by Jacques Cartier who was the Colombo of Canada although Leif Erikson visited Newfoundland way back in 1001 but that was forgotten because of lack of records.
Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain. The great Seamen who discovered and colonized the Saint Laurence
The Castle was built on the top of a foundation of walls and underground tunnels, with the building itself being of wood in a design that was typical of Normandy and the Loire River Valley in France including Brittany. In time the Castle burned and the underground tunnels and walls were filled up but a full out Fortress was designed in a Star shape as a permanent Castle on the river, with that being La Citadelle which is home to a military installation still today as well as the second residence of the Governor General of Canada.
The original Castle and images of the Citadelle
The Royal Tattoo Changing of The Guard in the Citadelle
The city grew as French settlers came to what was named Quebec after a Mohawk name, with Ville de Quebec having a huge amount of Stone Buildings built during the early days of the city and towards the 18th century. This makes Ville de Quebec home to the largest amount of Stone Buildings anywhere in North America outside of México's dear Ciudad de Guanajuato, and the only other place close to Ville de Quebec in dealing with such buildings in Canada would be Fort Louisbourg in Nova Scotia or Saint John's Newfoundland. The city was developed with narrow streets as it would be common in a Medieval city of France or Switzerland as the French had strong controls over Switzerland over the centuries in a fight against Austria or the House of Savoy in Italy, with Cobblestones being on some of the streets. Pavement is on others as the city is modern, with Cafes being common in the city while besides Stone Buildings the city also has Stucco Buildings in Norman and Breton influences.
The Stone Buildings of the city
A legendary City Street scene in Spring and Winter
The city is divided into the Upper and Lower sections with the Upper section being on the top of the hill that was next to where the Citadelle was developed, and as for the Lower sections of the city that is where the Port has always been as well as Warehouses and common homes being developed in those Stone Buildings or Stucco Buildings of this amazing city.
The beauty of the Lower section of the city
A Funicular runs up to the top of the hill with the Upper section being home to the Town Hall which is of French Château designs while as for Notre Dame de Québec and Notre Dame des Victoires they are the main Churches of this amazing city. Notre Dame de Victoires is of Gothic influence with a Steeple when Notre Dame de Québec is of Gothic Revival designs with a huge Arch dominating its façade, of which a Steeple of Green Color is on the top of a Green Dome is on the roof, when a Tower of rounded settings of two tiers is to the left of the façade.
The great Bishop who was François Xavier de Montmorency-Laval was entombed in Notre Dame de Québec, which is the cities Cathedral and the Parish Church of the Holy See of Canada's Roman Catholics who is the cities Archbishop and Cardinal. He was named a Saint and is by the name of Saint François de Laval with him being canonized on April the 3rd of 2014 by Pope Francis, of which Laval University was founded in 1852 in his honor. All claim him as the Father of The Canadian Roman Catholic Church, but in the 1960s after the Vatican 2 Council a Revolution from within Canadien society occurred as the Church lost control of all Education and guidance of daily life. As it was in Ireland the Church had control of daily life, but in dealing with the Canadian Church it has autonomy from The Vatican and is not in constant contact with it when the Irish Church does. In each Province minus Québec the Irish Church took over with the Canadian Roman Catholic Church remaining strong in the Province despite the events of the 1960s.
Right next to the Town Hall is the Édifice Price which is an Art Deco structure that has the offices of the Prime Minister of Québec as a Province, with this being what was for the longest time the cities tallest office building. Elegant Art Deco decor is on the building when the Arched main door has Gold leaf on it, and in a niche one sees an Iron made Monument to the Man on The River pushing Logs or "L'Homme-Rivière."
The city has a Mayor and a City Council which are elected, and the city has Boroughs which are headed by Presidents and Borough Councils that are elected and as Aldermen or Councillors as they are actually called they are all in the City Council of Ville de Quebec besides Councillors who represent Wards in each Borough.
The city is served by a Police Agency and La Sûreté du Québec is the Provincial Gendarme when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police also serves the Province, but the RCMP mainly deals with serious cases in this Province besides patrol the far north if not most rural areas when the SDQ investigates serious cases that the RCMP has no jurisdiction over or that City Police Agency.
The great Bishop who was François Xavier de Montmorency-Laval was entombed in Notre Dame de Québec, which is the cities Cathedral and the Parish Church of the Holy See of Canada's Roman Catholics who is the cities Archbishop and Cardinal. He was named a Saint and is by the name of Saint François de Laval with him being canonized on April the 3rd of 2014 by Pope Francis, of which Laval University was founded in 1852 in his honor. All claim him as the Father of The Canadian Roman Catholic Church, but in the 1960s after the Vatican 2 Council a Revolution from within Canadien society occurred as the Church lost control of all Education and guidance of daily life. As it was in Ireland the Church had control of daily life, but in dealing with the Canadian Church it has autonomy from The Vatican and is not in constant contact with it when the Irish Church does. In each Province minus Québec the Irish Church took over with the Canadian Roman Catholic Church remaining strong in the Province despite the events of the 1960s.
Right next to the Town Hall is the Édifice Price which is an Art Deco structure that has the offices of the Prime Minister of Québec as a Province, with this being what was for the longest time the cities tallest office building. Elegant Art Deco decor is on the building when the Arched main door has Gold leaf on it, and in a niche one sees an Iron made Monument to the Man on The River pushing Logs or "L'Homme-Rivière."
The city has a Mayor and a City Council which are elected, and the city has Boroughs which are headed by Presidents and Borough Councils that are elected and as Aldermen or Councillors as they are actually called they are all in the City Council of Ville de Quebec besides Councillors who represent Wards in each Borough.
The city is served by a Police Agency and La Sûreté du Québec is the Provincial Gendarme when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police also serves the Province, but the RCMP mainly deals with serious cases in this Province besides patrol the far north if not most rural areas when the SDQ investigates serious cases that the RCMP has no jurisdiction over or that City Police Agency.
Notre Dame des Victoires and Notre Dame de Québec
The interior of Notre Dame de Québec
The Tomb of François Xavier de Montmorency-Laval as a Saint and as a Cardinal
Town Hall. Hôtel de Ville
Édifice Price
The building's Art Deco decor and the main entrance
Statue of The Man of The River pushing Logs or "L'Homme-Rivière"
An elegant building with a Golden Dome and Palladian designs is on the top of the Funicular that rises to the top of the hill, and Champlain's original Castle was at the bottom of the hill from which he was able to develop the rest of what would be called Nouvelle France or New France. That building with the Golden Dome has a Clock in its Tower, and that was the old Customs Building for Tourists and VIPs who came to the city from Britain or France if not The United States.
The whole top of that hill is dominated by the immortal Château Frontenac which was named after Le Comte de Frontenac who was Governor during the reign of Louis Quatorze, Le Roi de Soleil {Louis 14th, The Sun King,} and it is designed in the most luxurious format of a French Castle in an attempt to reconstruct Champlain's original Castle.
This is a Hotel which was built by the Canadian Transcontinental Railroad and it has an amazing history, for it was there that the Quebec Conference of 1943 occurred between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lord Winston Churchill as well as William Lyon Mackenzie King. There they discussed the needs for preparations for the invasion of Normandy, as well as continuing defense of North America from Greenland and Newfoundland as well as Nova Scotia to Long Island and the Chesapeake. The first time these three men met was on a Battleship in Saint John's Newfoundland's harbor, just after war was declared on the United States by Hitler and Mussolini. Another meeting occurred at that Hotel in 1944, in order to discuss the final plans and preparations for the historical moment of D Day and the final invasions on Omaha Beach in Normandy.
Movies have been filmed in this amazing structure when as for the rampart they have elegant Cafe Tables and a Statue in Bronze of Champlain overlooking that same Saint Laurence River that he traveled on as an explorer. A Bandstand of Green and White is on top of a Snack Bar that is all green colored, and that is also on the ramparts, while the Statue of the great Champlain is in front of the main entrance if the Hotel on top of a Marble Pedestal while Bronze figures of Angels are beneath Champlain's likeness. Another Statue of a Goddess of Victory holding a wreath above a Gothic set Pedestal of Marble with a fountain is opposite the Hotel from where the Champlain Statue is. giving the area a real Park setting for visitors to the Hotel and local inhabitants of the city alike.
The whole top of that hill is dominated by the immortal Château Frontenac which was named after Le Comte de Frontenac who was Governor during the reign of Louis Quatorze, Le Roi de Soleil {Louis 14th, The Sun King,} and it is designed in the most luxurious format of a French Castle in an attempt to reconstruct Champlain's original Castle.
This is a Hotel which was built by the Canadian Transcontinental Railroad and it has an amazing history, for it was there that the Quebec Conference of 1943 occurred between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lord Winston Churchill as well as William Lyon Mackenzie King. There they discussed the needs for preparations for the invasion of Normandy, as well as continuing defense of North America from Greenland and Newfoundland as well as Nova Scotia to Long Island and the Chesapeake. The first time these three men met was on a Battleship in Saint John's Newfoundland's harbor, just after war was declared on the United States by Hitler and Mussolini. Another meeting occurred at that Hotel in 1944, in order to discuss the final plans and preparations for the historical moment of D Day and the final invasions on Omaha Beach in Normandy.
Movies have been filmed in this amazing structure when as for the rampart they have elegant Cafe Tables and a Statue in Bronze of Champlain overlooking that same Saint Laurence River that he traveled on as an explorer. A Bandstand of Green and White is on top of a Snack Bar that is all green colored, and that is also on the ramparts, while the Statue of the great Champlain is in front of the main entrance if the Hotel on top of a Marble Pedestal while Bronze figures of Angels are beneath Champlain's likeness. Another Statue of a Goddess of Victory holding a wreath above a Gothic set Pedestal of Marble with a fountain is opposite the Hotel from where the Champlain Statue is. giving the area a real Park setting for visitors to the Hotel and local inhabitants of the city alike.
The beautiful Château de Frontenac
The Champlain Statue
Goddess of Victory and Fountains {by quebecpictures.com}
Old Postcard of the Hotel
The city has a very elegant Train Station that is designed as if it was a Château, with the city also having an International Airport that has flights come in from New York City and Boston as well as London and both Dublin and Limerick including Paris and Berlin or Copenhagen or Stockholm or Moscow and Saint Petersburg if not Ciudad de México and La Habana Cuba. Gare du Palais is the name of the Train Station with the interior being one of the most beautiful in all North America in which the center of the façade has a Clock, when as for a separate structure it is of equal designs as the main building. This structure is a Bus Terminal that serves this luxurious city, making Ville de Quebec a city that is well connected with the rest of Canada.
La Gare du Palais
Images of the Train Station's interior
Ville de Quebec is home to one of the most beautiful Parliament Buildings in Canada for any Province, with this being L'hôtel du Parlement, à Québec or The House of Parliament of Québec which is a Château designed structure that has a tall central tower.
L'Assemblée nationale is the Lower Chamber and it is elegantly designed with cream colored panels and a light Blue colored setting on the walls when a dark Blue colored wall is behind the chair of the President in which that dark Blue color is set with a wooden frame, and the dark Blue colored section of that wall has a Gold Leaf setting of wreaths on top of it. The rug of the structure is light Blue colored, when the upper section of the chamber for citizens to watch the Assemblée function featuring a Painting of the first Legislative Council of The United Province of Canada. Side doors are of Arch settings made of elegant wood with Gold Leaf fleur d'lis when on the upper level rectangle shaped doors like that are known. On top of those doors on that upper level have Crests of the Province over the passage of time, beginning with Nouvelle France. Other doors are of cream color with elegant designs on top, when on the main floor one sees niches with Flower planters and always with fresh Flowers when these are cream colored and with Crests on top where side doors on those side walls of the chamber are actually niches with similar Flower planters and always with fresh Flowers.
Le Conseil législatif is the Upper Chamber and it replaced the answer to the Senate in the Province, with the chamber being of Red color on the walls and a Red colored rug with Gold fleur d'lis on the floor when in a setting of wooden frame behind the Lieutenant Governor's Throne one sees a dark Red setting that has a setting of Gold Leaf wreaths on top. The same kind of designs and settings as L'Assemblée nationale are in Le Conseil légilatif, but with Red being behind the Flowers of those niches. The upper section of this Chamber's Painting is that of the first Governor General of The United Province of Canada in his office, and in a Council session with advisors. In both chambers one sees cream colored wreaths surrounding C settings with those symbolizing Canada's name, in which one must remember that off and on Ville de Quebec was capitol of the United Province from 1848 to 1857.
In L'Assemblée nationale those Representatives of the majority and those Lawyers of the opposition are still divided by the length of two swards with the President's Chair being what before 1969 was the Speaker of the Legislative Assemblies Chair, when in Le Conseil législatif the members meet in a horseshoe shaped table with that which is the Lieutenant Governor's Chair being at the head of that table, Side desks are in a setting of rows on either side of the table, when single chairs are also in this chamber which works as a direct advisory council for he or she who is Lieutenant Governor on Laws and Appointments.
On top of either wooden frame behind the Chairs of the President or the Lieutenant Governor one finds a Gold Leaf setting of Crowns and the Coat of Arms of Canada, when a setting of Gold Leaf designs are on either side of that frame.
L'Assemblée nationale is the Lower Chamber and it is elegantly designed with cream colored panels and a light Blue colored setting on the walls when a dark Blue colored wall is behind the chair of the President in which that dark Blue color is set with a wooden frame, and the dark Blue colored section of that wall has a Gold Leaf setting of wreaths on top of it. The rug of the structure is light Blue colored, when the upper section of the chamber for citizens to watch the Assemblée function featuring a Painting of the first Legislative Council of The United Province of Canada. Side doors are of Arch settings made of elegant wood with Gold Leaf fleur d'lis when on the upper level rectangle shaped doors like that are known. On top of those doors on that upper level have Crests of the Province over the passage of time, beginning with Nouvelle France. Other doors are of cream color with elegant designs on top, when on the main floor one sees niches with Flower planters and always with fresh Flowers when these are cream colored and with Crests on top where side doors on those side walls of the chamber are actually niches with similar Flower planters and always with fresh Flowers.
Le Conseil législatif is the Upper Chamber and it replaced the answer to the Senate in the Province, with the chamber being of Red color on the walls and a Red colored rug with Gold fleur d'lis on the floor when in a setting of wooden frame behind the Lieutenant Governor's Throne one sees a dark Red setting that has a setting of Gold Leaf wreaths on top. The same kind of designs and settings as L'Assemblée nationale are in Le Conseil légilatif, but with Red being behind the Flowers of those niches. The upper section of this Chamber's Painting is that of the first Governor General of The United Province of Canada in his office, and in a Council session with advisors. In both chambers one sees cream colored wreaths surrounding C settings with those symbolizing Canada's name, in which one must remember that off and on Ville de Quebec was capitol of the United Province from 1848 to 1857.
In L'Assemblée nationale those Representatives of the majority and those Lawyers of the opposition are still divided by the length of two swards with the President's Chair being what before 1969 was the Speaker of the Legislative Assemblies Chair, when in Le Conseil législatif the members meet in a horseshoe shaped table with that which is the Lieutenant Governor's Chair being at the head of that table, Side desks are in a setting of rows on either side of the table, when single chairs are also in this chamber which works as a direct advisory council for he or she who is Lieutenant Governor on Laws and Appointments.
On top of either wooden frame behind the Chairs of the President or the Lieutenant Governor one finds a Gold Leaf setting of Crowns and the Coat of Arms of Canada, when a setting of Gold Leaf designs are on either side of that frame.
L'Assemblée nationale and Le Conseil législatif
The building is in front of a beautiful square and a beautiful Garden, allowing so many to enjoy the seat of all Government for the Province in a Garden setting where Statues of great Men from the Province are in niches in the building's first stories wall. These Bronze Statues include those of Jesuit and Explorer Jacques Marquette and his companion Fir Trapper Louis Jollet and Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville who founded the first permanent colony of French in La Louisiane, as well as Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry who was a Lieutenant Colonel in the King's Army in The War of 1812. They also include Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye who developed the first successful Fir Trade Outposts west of Lake Superior, and Robert Baldwin who was co Premier of The United Province of Canada.
Statues in front of the building include two very controversial men who were Robert Bourassa and Réne Lévesque, with both being Prime Minister of Québec as a Province and both being extremely Liberal in their policies. Robert Bourassa was never in favor of Succession but he was still Socialist as he led the Quebec Liberal Party or QLP, with his Socialist policies causing huge economic distress for the Province as well as social distress . In dealing with Lévesque he led the Secessionist Parti Québécois which three times attempted Succession via a free election and lost badly to pro Confederation voters, especially when dealing with those of 1976 and 1980.
It was after that final election {which occurred in 1995} that the then Prime Minister Jacques Parizeau stated that minorities defeated the Province ever receiving Independence via the statement of "Sovereignty Had Been Defeated by Money and Ethnic Votes", making many believe that the Party Québécois was now anti none North American minority besides anti Anglo and Irish for Parizeau led it to victory in 1994. Such statements angered Lebanese who live in the Province and Asians as well as Arabs besides Haitians and actual Africans let alone people from México and Central America including South America, when it also angered so many Jews and ethnic Poles and Italians as well as Russians and Greeks including Turks not mentioning Hungarians and Romanians as well as anyone from the former Yugoslavia.
Parizeau was condemned by everyone in the Province who wanted to be Canadian and be proud of it, when he was also condemned by his own Party and was replaced in one year as Prime Minister as well as him being condemned as a Drunk and as a terrible Prime Minister for he was both. Lévesque did not have any such attitude towards minorities or non French speaking people of the Province, but his leadership of the Party and his creation of that Party made many hold him responsible.
Some of the Statues are on the Tower and at either side of the Tower climbing up to the top of the building, with many of these masterpieces being designed by Louis-Philippe Hébert who was one of the greatest Sculptors of 19th century and early 20th century Canada as this masterpiece of a structure was built from 1877 to 1886.
Statues in front of the building include two very controversial men who were Robert Bourassa and Réne Lévesque, with both being Prime Minister of Québec as a Province and both being extremely Liberal in their policies. Robert Bourassa was never in favor of Succession but he was still Socialist as he led the Quebec Liberal Party or QLP, with his Socialist policies causing huge economic distress for the Province as well as social distress . In dealing with Lévesque he led the Secessionist Parti Québécois which three times attempted Succession via a free election and lost badly to pro Confederation voters, especially when dealing with those of 1976 and 1980.
It was after that final election {which occurred in 1995} that the then Prime Minister Jacques Parizeau stated that minorities defeated the Province ever receiving Independence via the statement of "Sovereignty Had Been Defeated by Money and Ethnic Votes", making many believe that the Party Québécois was now anti none North American minority besides anti Anglo and Irish for Parizeau led it to victory in 1994. Such statements angered Lebanese who live in the Province and Asians as well as Arabs besides Haitians and actual Africans let alone people from México and Central America including South America, when it also angered so many Jews and ethnic Poles and Italians as well as Russians and Greeks including Turks not mentioning Hungarians and Romanians as well as anyone from the former Yugoslavia.
Parizeau was condemned by everyone in the Province who wanted to be Canadian and be proud of it, when he was also condemned by his own Party and was replaced in one year as Prime Minister as well as him being condemned as a Drunk and as a terrible Prime Minister for he was both. Lévesque did not have any such attitude towards minorities or non French speaking people of the Province, but his leadership of the Party and his creation of that Party made many hold him responsible.
Some of the Statues are on the Tower and at either side of the Tower climbing up to the top of the building, with many of these masterpieces being designed by Louis-Philippe Hébert who was one of the greatest Sculptors of 19th century and early 20th century Canada as this masterpiece of a structure was built from 1877 to 1886.
L'hôtel du Parlement, à Québec
Ville de Quebec has on two of its walls an Arch which in which they are two of the most photographed and painted Archways or Gateways for any city, and these were the main entrances to the city from the interior of the Province in the days of The United Province of Canada and Lower Canada as well as Nouvelle France. Ceremonial Tattoos of Royal Guards parade through these two Gates, and a small Tower is on the side of each Arch in which both are all made of stone.
The Gates
The Battle of The Plains of Abraham in 1759 ended Nouvelle France, with General James Wolfe of the King's Army {George the Second} and General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran leading either side and dying on that battlefield. The Battle of Ville de Quebec in 1777 was a disaster for the mighty George Washington, but although he did not take the city both Washington and Thomas Jefferson as well as John Adams were to be admired by the Fathers of Canada's Democratic ways and institutions over a period of 40 years until the events of 1867.
The Plains of Abraham
The city has modern buildings that serve as Hospitals and places of Culture and Sport when other are home to Offices for the Government, and one is "L'Édifice Marie-Guyart" which is the cities tallest structure and the tallest structure anywhere east of Montréal. One of the greatest buildings in the city is the modern and young Complexe Jules Dallaire Deux, which has a Blue setting of Glass through its center from top to bottom on each of the twin curved buildings of the Complex.
L'Édifice Marie-Guyart and Complexe Jules Dallaire Deux
The Hotel-Dieu de Québec is the great Hospital in the city, and it is the oldest Hospital in North America outside of México, with the old building being of Stone and a modern setting being next to it in a tall Tower.
The Hotel-Dieu de Québec
The city is home to the oldest University in all Canada that was founded by a Religious Order even though it was not given a charter as a University until 1852, with the University being founded in 1663 as La Séminaire de Québec with it being called Laval University and it was named Saint Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval who personally founded La Séminaire de Québec so long ago.
The old Séminaire de Québec which is now Laval University
The city like it is with the whole Province has it that billboards and street signs are in French only and not Bilingual, with far more French speakers living in the city than in Montréal with the Province having a board that inspects if proper grammar is used in Billboards as well as Signs and Documents.
Street Sign only in French as according to Provincial Law
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré is outside of the city walls to the east of Ville de Quebec by 30 Kilometers, and it is a very important Basilica with it being credited for Miracles as lame and ill have been healed once they entered the building in with this is being all due to that location of where it was built having healing power for the Mohawk. The building is Gothic and Norman as well as Renaissance Revival with an Arched façade and huge twin Bell Towers of Steeple settings, of which it has existed in its current design since 1946 although it was in 1568 that this sanctuary was originally built. The interior has Byzantine influences besides Gothic ones, of which huge Arcades in Byzantine settings are also within the interior. The most beloved person honored in the Basilica besides Saint Anne-de-Beaupré and the Madonna and Child being Saint Kateri Tekakwitha who is hailed as The Lilly of The Mohawk or Lys des Mohawks in French {although Lis is also used for that Flower.} She was honorably Beatified by Saint John Paul the Second {Saint Jean Paul Deux in French} on June 22nd of 1980, when on October 21st of 2012 she was Canonized by Benedict the 16th. She is now with the reputation of her being the Patroness today for all First Nations who are Roman Catholic, with her also being Holy Patroness for all Mohawks in New York State and other members of The Iroquois Confederacy in Ohio.
The Basilica today
The Interior
The original Basilica before the fire of 1922 {by Detroit Photographic Co}
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Most jobs in Quebec City are concentrated in public administration as well as defense and services as well as commerce and transport as well as tourism, in which as it is the Province's Capitol City, the city benefits from being a regional administrative and services center with the Provincial Government being the largest employer in the city. Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec or CHUD is the city's largest institutional employer, and around 10% of jobs in the city are in manufacturing with the principal products including pulp and paper as well as processed food and both metal and wood items. Ville de Quebec hosts the headquarters of a variety of prominent companies including fashion retailer La Maison Simons, when engineering firms and the Norda Stelo Real Estate Investment Trust are also based in the city.
Ville de Quebec's Skyline at night
Many immigrants from North and West Africa have come to Ville de Quebec when so many from Latin America have also come especially people from México and Guatemala as well as El Salvador and Cuba including Haiti and Jamaica while so many from South America have also come. Anglophone Canadians {British Canadians} too live in Ville de Quebec and especially those from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as well as Newfoundland as an island.
The city is home to a great Winter Carnival as well as the celebration of Saint John The Baptist who is the Patron Male Saint of the Province, with the Winter Carnival being one of the most beloved events all year long in Canada. Bonhomme is the mascot and he is a Snowman with a Red Cap, and Parades as well as Toboggan Rides and Canoe Races occur in this amazing celebration that deals with all things winter including the building of Ice Castles and JRR Tolken created characters as well as characters from CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.
Images of the Winter Carnival
One of the most famous Steel Bridges built in North America spans the Saint Laurence near the city and it is based on that of the Firth of Fifth Bridge in Scotland with this being the Quebec Bridge, while also near Ville de Quebec down the river one sees the Montmorency Falls.
The Quebec Bridge and The Montmorency Falls
