“The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.” ~ Samuel Champlain
Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer best known for establishing and governing the settlements of New France and the city of Quebec in the early 1600’s.
“Quebec” means “where the river narrows” in the Algonquin Indian language. In our many lectures on history, I also found out that “Canada” is an Iroquois-Huron word meaning “settlement” or collection of huts. Jacques Cartier named and claimed Canada for France around 1535.
This is definitely a city that I would like to revisit and stay at least a week or two. The old town is lovely to walk around, quaint buildings of old, cobblestone streets, Dufferin Terrace is a popular boardwalk overlooking the St Lawrence River on one side and the most photographed hotel in the world on the other side.
The most photographed hotel in the world. You can see why, with it’s stately pose high above the lower city and overlooking the St Lawrence River.
Just walkin’… …thru old town
We walked around the corner and saw this beautiful painting on the end of a building showing a scene from the past. One of Quebec’s wall gates into the fortified city centuries old. Quebec City is the only walled city in North America north of Mexico.