HOW DOES AN OLD QUÉBEC PRIVATE TOUR WORK?

WHERE DO WE GO? WHAT EXACTLY DO WE TALK ABOUT?

Choosing to do a private tour is choosing to do a tour adapted to your own objectives and interests. For this reason, it is very important to share this information with your guide at the beginning of the tour. Don’t worry, if you forget, the guide will ask you.

You don’t have any specific objectives? No worries, our experienced guide knows perfectly the historic district, its most important sites and the most interesting themes to address.

SIGHTS

This being said, a typical itinerary within the historic district, namely for first-time visitors, could include these lower town and upper town sites:

· Place royale

· Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Church

· Quartier Petit-Champlain

· Fresque des Québécois (painted mural)

· Escalier casse-cou / Breakneck Stairs

· Vieux-Port/ Old Port

· Parc Montmorency

· Séminaire de Québec

· Cathédrale-Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Québec

· Place de l’Hôtel de Ville / City Hall Square

· Monastère des Ursulines

· Monastère des Augustines

· Place d’Armes

· Terrasse Dufferin

· Promenade des Gouverneurs

· Château Frontenac

· Parc des Gouverneurs

· Terrasse Pierre-Dugua-De Mons

· Fortifications de Québec

· Citadelle de Québec

· Parlement de Québec

· Parc des Plaines d’Abraham

· Cathédrale Holy Trinity

· Morrin Centre

· Église presbytérienne St. Andrews

· Maison de la littérature

· Parc de l’Artillerie

· Quartier latin

· Redoute dauphine

· Forts et châteaux St-Louis

· Etc.

During a typical 2.5-hour tour, it is not possible to cover the whole historic district. This is why it is so important to share your interests and objectives from the very beginning. Would you like to include a site that is not listed above? Please do not hesitate to share this information with our guide!

THEMES

A private tour is not only a stroll from site to site, but also a dynamic conversation between the guide and the guests. Our guide is first and foremost a storyteller and can address different themes about the history and culture of Québec, such as:

· Founding and colonization of French Canada

· First Nations, Truth and Reconciliation Commission

· Colonial conflicts and British Conquest

· New France, a royal colony and the King’s Daughters

· Land tenure in the St. Lawrence Valley

· French Canada, Louisiana and Acadia

· How the history of the USA shaped Canada

· Modern Canada from Sea to Sea

· Geography of the St. Lawrence Valley, Québec and Canada

· Climate of St. Lawrence Valley and Québec winters

· St. Lawrence Seaway up to the Great Lakes

· Architecture of Old Québec

· Historic district and World Heritage

· Québec and overtourism challenges

· French language in Québec and Acadia, its accents and expressions…

· Role of the Catholic Church in the history of French Canada

· Military history, French and British fortifications

· Politics in the XXth century and Québec secession from Canada

· Dark Ages of Québec and its 1960s Quiet Revolution

· Canadian multiculturalism and migratory policies

· Religious practices and secularization of Québec society

· Private and public education system

· Health care and free public system

· The Francophones of Canada today

· Preferred spots for nice pictures

· Etc.

For 2.5 hours, our guide will be available to answer all of your questions! There is no bad question, there is only interested visitors willing to learn and discover Québec and Canada. So take advantage of this unique moment and enjoy.

“The impression made upon the visitor by this Gibraltar of America…”

(Charles Dickens, American Notes, 1842)