COMMUNITIES here can trace their roots back to the old 18th-century settlers of New France. Dotted along the flat, fertile farmland of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River west of Gaspé and inland toward Montreal, the villages cover the area between the region’s largest towns of Montmagny and Rimouski. Rivière-du-Loup, a seemingly unremarkable [...]

THIS ISOLATED little fragment of New France at first appears lost among the apartment buildings of working class Pointe-Saint-Charles. It was a farm when the formidable Marguerite Bourgeoys, Montreal’s first schoolteacher and now a canonized saint, bought it in 1668 as a residence for the religious order she had founded in 1655.

 
Quebec City is the capital of the province of Quebec and is situated in the Capitale-Nationale district. It is the second biggest city in the province, following Montreal. Quebec City is about 233 kilometers away from Montreal. The fortifications nearby Old Quebec are the only remaining fortified  walls in the North America, and were acknowledged [...]