SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN FOUNDED LE VILLE DE QUÉBEC

The Grandma visiting le Ville de Québec

The Grandma is spending some days in Quebec. She wants to improve her French and she has decided to travel to this wonderful place to share her time with these kind and nice inhabitants. 

As all the families know, The Grandma is a great defender of learning or improving French language which is considered by her an important tool for the closer future.

Ville de Québec, Quebec City, officially Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. 

The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River proximate to the city's promontory, Cape Diamond, and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning where the river narrows.

More information: Quebec City

Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec, Vieux-Québec, are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the Historic District of Old Québec.

The Grandma visiting le Ville de Québec

The city's landmarks include the Château Frontenac, a hotel which dominates the skyline, and La Citadelle, an intact fortress that forms the centrepiece of the ramparts surrounding the old city. 

According to the Government of Canada, the Government of Quebec, the Commission de toponymie du Québec, and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, the names of Canadian cities and towns have only one official form. Thus, Québec is officially spelled with an accented é in both Canadian English and French, although the accent is often not used in common English usage. In English, the city and the province are formally distinguished by the fact that the province does not have an accented é while the city does, while informally the form Quebec City is frequently, although unofficially, used to distinguish the city from the province.

More information: Quebec Region

Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain, a French explorer and diplomat on 3 July 1608, and at the site of a long abandoned St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona. Champlain, also called The Father of New France, served as its administrator for the rest of his life.

The name Canada refers to this settlement. Although the Acadian settlement at Port-Royal was established three years earlier, Quebec came to be known as the cradle of the Francophone population of North America. 

  

My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary. 

Patrick Roy