Category Archives: Quebec City  The Château Frontenac is one of the very beautiful hotels that was built for the Canadian Pacific Railway company in Canada, close to a century ago. The company was attempting to lure affluent travellers to take it’s trains, and the hotels were all linked by the rail line. The hotel lies at the top of…  Happy Birthday to… My Blog! It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by since I first started writing my blog, but here it is, one year later. I had no idea if anyone would ever read the stories, or see my photos, and if they did, would they care? Would they like them,…  L’Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste was built in 1884, to replace the original church originally built in 1847. Fire ravaged the entire neighborhood in 1881, and consumed the old church in the process. In my opinion, this has to be one of the most ornate and beautiful interiors of any church in Canada. The 36 stained glass windows…  Its not always easy to get a view from above that enables me to photograph a nice cityscape like this one of Quebec City. Lucky for me that in Quebec City, the tallest building allows you to get a great 360° view including this one. Fortunate for me as well to get such nice cloud…  Old Quebec City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 and is now in the company of such wonderful and diverse places as the Taj Mahal, Teotihuacan and Grand Canyon National Park. If you’re looking for amazing places to visit then look no further than the list of World Heritage sites. Personally I…  One of the quaintest places in all of Old Quebec or Vieux-Québec in French is Place Royale. This is the place where Samuel de Champlain built Quebec City’s second habitation between the years of 1623 and 1626. After a fire in 1682 most of the houses there were rebuilt and in 1686 the area became…  The Montmorency Falls Provincial park (French: Parc de la Chute-Montmorency) is home to the highest waterfalls in the province of Quebec and about 30 meters higher than Niagara’s famous falls. The Montmorency river is a tributary to the Saint Lawrence River and the falls are the point where the two rivers meet. There are some…  Vieux Québec or Old Quebec is a great place to walk around and take in the sights. So many of the buildings date back to the 1600′s and look like they belong more in a secluded part of Europe rather than in North America. There are so many good restaurants, cafes and bistros it’s hard… |
