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Quebec City Private Walking Tour - The History of Quebec and Canada
Duration
90 to 180 minutes
Overview
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Discover the History of Québec and Canada through the streets of Old Québec! Our guide will highlight the most significant steps of Canadian history and their repercussions on Québec City. Site of the first European settlement in North America in the 1540s, Québec City is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in Canada from 1608, the year Champlain left Acadia to settle along the St.Lawrence River.
Quebec City has a unique French, British and Canadian heritage observable through its institutions and architecture. Let our guide tell you the Story of a Nation founded by French explorers and conquered by the British during the Seven Years War on the Plains of Abraham Battlefield. In the years following the 1867 Confederation of Canada, 10 provinces and 3 territories were created from initial British Colonies and Hudson Bay Company’s fur trading territories to form the present day second largest country in the world, from coast to coast.
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