[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Québec and Montréal were founded as cities. It came automatically in Québec's case with the institutions : the Habitation (gouverneur's house), the central church that soon became a cathedral (the seat of a diocèse), the religious communities, the education facilities... All of this was quickly put in place in the very beginning. It was a planned capital. The villages around Québec (Beauport, Charlesbourg, Sillery, Sainte-Foy, Cap-Rouge, Château-Richer...) followed a much more organic settlement path.

Theoritically Québec has never been considered a village. Other cities in the USA followed the same pattern.

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