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Romanticized depiction of Quebec City in 1720. The history of Quebec City extends back thousands of years, with its first inhabitants being the First Nations peoples of the region. The arrival of French explorers in the 16th century eventually led to the establishment of Quebec City, in present-day Quebec, Canada. The city is one of the oldest ...
Quebec City [a] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [ 13 ] and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. [ 14 ] It is the twelfth -largest city and the seventh -largest metropolitan area in Canada.
1984 – Opération Nez rouge was founded in Quebec City. 1984 – Musée de la civilisation established. 1985 – Ramparts of Quebec City was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO. 1985 – Shamrock Summit. 1987 – Flag of Quebec City adopted. 1994 – Quebec Biker war. 1995 – Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec created.
Plaque honouring the first settlers of Quebec City. Quebec City was founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain. Some other towns were founded before, like Tadoussac in 1604 which still exists today, but Quebec was the first to be meant as a permanent settlement and not a simple trading post. Over time, it became a province of Canada and all of New ...
Eastern cities such as St. John's (1583), Saint John (1604), Quebec City (1608), Montreal (1642), Halifax (1749), and Sherbrooke (1793) were officially incorporated as cities in these years. To the west, Toronto was established in 1793 as York. Of these cities, Montreal would become the most prominent city in Canada up to the 20th century.
Quebec City's 400th anniversary, celebrated in 2008, commemorated the founding of Quebec City in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain. [1] Quebec City is the oldest francophone city in North America . [ 2 ] Along with Acadia, the city represents the birthplace of French America.
Acadia and Quebec are given back to France. 1632 - The Couillard-Hébert family receives the colony's first slave. He is a black boy from the West Indies. See Slavery in Canada. 1632 - Gabriel Sagard publishes Le Grand Voyage au pays des Hurons (The Great Voyage in Huron country) and a dictionary of the Huron language.
Municipalities of Quebec around 1965. The municipal history of Quebec started in 1796 with the creation of administrations for Montréal and Quebec City, but it really developed immediately prior to the creation of the Province of Canada in 1841 with the formation of municipal districts, [1] followed in March 1845 when the Parliament of the Province of Canada adopted an Act to create local ...