24 Facts About Quebec City

Quebec City is one of the oldest European cities in North America.

The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico.

In French, the two are distinguished in that most province names including Quebec take definite articles, while most city names do not.

Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America and the only fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist.

Quebec City was the headquarters of many raids against New England during the four French and Indian Wars.

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The defeat of the revolutionaries from the south put an end to the hopes that the peoples of Quebec City would rise and join the American Revolution so that Canada would join the Continental Congress and become part of the original United States of America along with the other British colonies of continental North America.

Quebec City itself was not attacked during the War of 1812, when the United States again attempted to annex Canadian lands.

In 1867, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the definite capital of the Dominion of Canada, while Quebec City was confirmed as the capital of the newly created province of Quebec.

The Second Quebec City Conference was held in 1944 and was attended by Churchill and Roosevelt.

Until 2002, Quebec was a mostly urbanized city and its territory coterminous with today's borough of La Cite-Limoilou.

Quebec City was built on the north bank of the Saint Lawrence River, where it narrows and meets the mouth of the Saint-Charles River.

Old Quebec City is located on top and at the foot of Cap-Diamant, which is on the eastern edge of a plateau called the promontory of Quebec City .

On 1 November 2009, Quebec City re-organized its boroughs, reducing the number from 8 to 6.

Quebec City is known for its Winter Carnival, its summer music festival and its Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.

The Jardin zoologique du Quebec City, now closed, reopened in 2002 after extensive repairs before ultimately shutting permantly in 2006.

Quebec City has a number of historic sites, art galleries and museums, including Citadelle of Quebec, Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Ursulines of Quebec, and Musee de la civilisation.

Quebec City has hosted a number of recent sporting events, as well as being shortlisted for the 2002 Winter Olympics city selection.

Quebec City co-hosted with Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 2008 IIHF World Championship.

In December 2011, Quebec City hosted the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at the Pavillon de la Jeunesse at ExpoCite.

At the 2018 provincial election, the leftist party Quebec solidaire managed to win two districts, Taschereau and Jean-Lesage, the most densely populated in town, but the centre-right CAQ, as it swept the province, won six of the nine districts encompassing the city, and 15 of the 18 in the administrative regions of Capitale-Nationale and Chaudiere-Appalaches .

On 1 November 2020, the Quebec City police arrested a man dressed in medieval costume and armed with a Japanese sword.

CEGEPs of Quebec city are College Francois-Xavier-Garneau, Cegep Limoilou, Cegep de Sainte-Foy and Champlain College St Lawrence, as well as private and specialized post-secondary institutions such as Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy, College Merici, College Bart, College CDI, College O'Sullivan and College Multihexa.

Quebec City has the oldest educational institution for women in North America, led by the Ursulines of Quebec, which is a private elementary school.

Port of Quebec City is a seaport on the St Lawrence with facilities in the first, fifth and sixth boroughs.