whyqc TOP REASONS TO VISIT QUÉBEC CITY WORLD HERITAGE SITE, CONTINENTAL LANDMARK, CANADIAN TREASURE

· Unrivaled Destination Not only Québec City’s historic district is Canada’s first permanent settlement founded by French cartographer Samuel de Champlain in 1608, but it is also a unique North American destination listed by the UNESCO in 1985 as a WORLD HERITAGE SITE. That title rests on 2 UNESCO criteria: · Old Québec, the former capital of New France, illustrates one of the major stages in the European settlement of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans. · It is an exceptional example of a fortified colonial town and by far the most complete north of Mexico. · Witness of Atlantic World Colonization Shaped by the history of the Atlantic World, Old Québec has witnessed major historic events from colonial period to modern days: the colonization of the St. Lawrence Valley and the Atlantic coast by Western Europeans, the Franco-British conflicts and their North American repercussions, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and arising Napoleonic Wars, the Canadian expansion to the Pacific and Arctic oceans in the wake of the American Civil War, etc. · Landmark of Continental History Old Québec features hundreds of historical monuments and plaques, a unique architecture as well as French and British institutions that have survived to this day. It’s the ideal heritage district to help HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS connect the dots of North America’s history, from French and British colonial periods to present-day Canada and USA.