Tourism and holidays Québec, Canada Official tourist site of the Gouvernement du Québec

Tourism and holidays Québec, Canada Official tourist site of the Gouvernement du Québec

Québec has a vast road and air network that makes it easy to travel between cities. A few communities are directly on the provincial boundary, easily accessible by bicycle or even on foot. From Labrador, the Trans-Labrador Highway crosses into Québec at both of its endpoints, Labrador City-Fermont and Forteau-Blanc Sablon. Quebec Route 389 from Fermont to Baie-Comeau is rough gravel with (mostly) no services from Fermont to Manic quebex 5. There is no road from Blanc-Sablon/Vieux-Fort to Kegaska, a 450-km gap bridged by a weekly coastal ferry. From the west in Ottawa, Highway 417 (in Ontario) / Autoroute 40 (in Quebec) travels to Montreal, and is a part of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Notable people

Poutine is a Canadian dish, of french fries topped with cheese curds and gravy. It is believed to be originated in the province of Quebec, in rural areas in the 1950s when a trucker named Fernand Lachance invented ‘poutine’. Montreal was founded by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, a French military official, and Jeanne Mance, a female settler who left Paris to start the city of Ville-Marie. Visitors from near and far come to participate in the winter festival and to enjoy skating, ice sculptures, sledding, night parades, and more. Quebec is the name of the province, and there is a city, by the same name – Quebec City.

These buildings are rectangular one-storey structures with an extremely tall and steep roof, sometimes almost twice as tall as the house below. Canadien-style churches also developed and served as landmarks while traversing rural Quebec. Quebec’s architecture is characterized by its unique Canadien-style buildings as well as the juxtaposition of a variety of styles reflective of Quebec’s history. When walking in any city or town, one can come across buildings with styles congruent to Classical, Neo-Gothic, Roman, Neo-Renaissance, Greek Revival, Neo-Classical, Québécois Neo-Classical, Victorian, Second Empire, Modern, Post-modern or Skyscrapers. Thanks to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Quebec had, as of 2009update, experienced an increase in its exports and in its ability to compete on the international market.

Learn something new at one of Québec’s most popular interactive museums

Quebec offers the usual range of North American accommodations including hostels, chain motels, and high-end resort hotels. Particular to Quebec are Auberge, literally «Inn» but range from faux-lodge style motels to Gites, B&B style guest houses with sometimes only a single room for rent. It may be purchased exclusively through the Société Québécoise du Cannabis, the government owned dispensary of cannabis. Its theme parks include La Ronde, the Old Port of Montreal and of Quebec City, the Village Québécois d’Antan (a Drummondville pioneer village living museum), Granby Zoo.

Canada’s Culture Capital and the second largest city

• The Canadian Shield, a vast region of ancient rocks and forests, covers the majority of Quebec’s landmass.
• It has nine league titles, won in 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2022 and 2023.
• At the local level, the province comprises a total of 1,117 local municipalities, 11 agglomerations (which includes about 42 local municipalities), and 45 boroughs (that are located within 8 local municipalities).
• At various points, one can cross the Ottawa River by bridge or ferry; most of these crossings connect to Québec Route 148 (and Autoroute 50 from Hull-Gatineau eastward) to follow the river on the other side.
• Built in 1647, Quebec City’s grand Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame is the oldest non-Spanish parish church in North America and was the place of worship for much of the colony’s early elite.
• Thanks to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Quebec had, as of 2009update, experienced an increase in its exports and in its ability to compete on the international market.

Quebec is the world’s biggest maple syrup producer.346 The province has a long history of producing maple syrup, and creating new maple-derived products. Other major food products include beer, wine (including ice wine and ice cider), and cheese. The réseau routier québécois (Quebec road network) is managed by the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ; Quebec Automobile Insurance Corporation) and consists of about 185,000 km (115,000 mi) of highways and national, regional, local, collector and forest roads. In addition, Quebec has almost 12,000 bridges, tunnels, retaining walls, culverts and other structures310 such as the Quebec Bridge, the Laviolette Bridge and the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel.

• The upper and lower town are linked by numerous stairs such as the Escalier « casse-cou » («breakneck stairway») or the Old Quebec Funicular on the historic Rue du Petit-Champlain, where many small boutiques are found.
• Quebec’s most recent separatist government only held office for a year and a half (September 2012 to April 2014) and in the 2011 and 2015 federal elections, most separatist candidates for parliament were defeated.
• Under their rule, Quebec remained a largely rural, borderline feudal society well into the 20th century.
• Montreal is home to world-class museums, international festivals, art, culture, history, and amazing food.
• Montreal was founded by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, a French military official, and Jeanne Mance, a female settler who left Paris to start the city of Ville-Marie.
• This differs from neighbouring Ontario, where 20 km/h is the tolerated limit.
• The province’s major metropolis, Montreal (Montréal), encompassing Montreal Island, Jesus Island to the north, and several communities on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, is the second largest city in Canada.

Citadelle de Québec

There is one daily English-language broadsheet newspaper (Montreal Gazette) in Montreal and a few English-language radio stations, which play very little French-language music (typically 5%, with no French-language announcements). It’s the best destination to soak up the lively French Canadian Culture, a unique culture in North America. Stroll the cobblestone streets of the only fortified city north of Mexico and explore its gorgeous outdoors nearby. The Université du Québec system administrative headquarters and some of its specialized schools (École nationale d’administration publique, Institut national de la recherche scientifique and Télé-université) are in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood. The city currently has one professional team, the baseball team Capitales de Québec, which plays in the Frontier League in downtown’s Stade Canac.

Canadian province (1867–present)

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Quebec City (MNBAQ, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec) has a great collection, primarily of art by Quebecers from the 1600s to contemporary art. In the extreme north of the province, Inuktitut is the main language spoken due to the prevalence of Inuit people. Some people living on First Nations (Aboriginal) reserves in the southwest speak the Mohawk language. The colony was ceded to the British by the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the war.

Originally meant to be connected by a tunnel under the city centre, the two sections are separated by a 6 km (3.7 mi) gap. The western section (Autoroute Charest) connects Autoroutes 40 and 73 with Boulevard Charest (a main east–west avenue) while the eastern section (Autoroute Dufferin-Montmorency) links the city centre with Beauport and Montmorency Falls. All five ridings within the city were won by the leftist New Democratic Party, in the so-called «orange wave» that temporarily swept the province.

Quebec has one of the world’s largest reserves of freshwater, occupying 12% of its surface. It has 3% of the world’s renewable freshwater, whereas it has only 0.1% of its population. Montmorency Falls, located near Quebec City is 30 meters higher than Niagara Falls. This is 72% of the world’s maple syrup production, and this also accounts for more than 90% of all Canadian domestic production.