Happy 400th Québec City!

[PhilippeMtl]

Joyeux anniversaire Québec!


Nice shots! Some of them are very impressive.

[Rumors]

Awesome photos guys. and Happy 400th Quebec City.

[urbanactivist]

Yes, it is time for a visit....

After this photo thread, New Orleans just isn't cutting it

[Uptowngirl]

New Orleans cuts it but it would be nice to look at another place...

Besides most of the original settlers to New Orleans where from Quebec not France so there is a connection there....even the La Moyne Brothers (Iberville/Beinville) were from Quebec.

[PhilippeMtl]

Originally Posted by Uptowngirl

New Orleans cuts it but it would be nice to look at another place...

Besides most of the original settlers to New Orleans where from Quebec not France so there is a connection there....even the La Moyne Brothers (Iberville/Beinville) were from Quebec.

Are you sure they are not from Acadie? Quebec diaspora is more concentred in New England...

[SteelTown]

There's Island of Orleans. I spent a night there at a sugarshack, had too many maple syrup beer that night haha. There was a group from Switzerland there so we spent most of the night singing French songs....I can only do the ding dong ding part lol.

Think I heard there's like 5 or 6 families that own large pieces of the island.

[jodelli]

Originally Posted by (Tim)

Cela est un tel beau lieu. J'aimerais y aller un jour.

Moi aussi, un jour.

[Uptowngirl]

Acadia became Cajun..and New Orleans is not a Cajun city.

Southern Central and Southwestern Louisiana is Cajun country.

I'm extremely well versed in New Orleans history...even most of the first buildings in the French Quarter were primate material modeled after the design of the buildings in Old Quebec and Montreal, but they fell apart in the moist soil and soon found out they did not adapt well to the wet, humid climate...and started to borrow from the French colony at St. Domingue.

[10101000]

Originally Posted by jodelli

Moi aussi, un jour.

Bien, peut-être nous pourrions aller un jour !

[10101000]

Originally Posted by Uptowngirl

Acadia became Cajun..and New Orleans is not a Cajun city.

Southern Central and Southwestern Louisiana is Cajun country.

I'm extremely well versed in New Orleans history...even most of the first buildings in the French Quarter were primate material modeled after the design of the buildings in Old Quebec and Montreal, but they fell apart in the moist soil and soon found out they did not adapt well to the wet, humid climate...and started to borrow from the French colony at St. Domingue.

Pour être le Canada honnête et les Etats-Unis sont venus d'Europe.

[Uptowngirl]

^Yes well, Quebec was an established cities with their own distinct culture, and identity. Same goes for New Orleans...but there was a rift during much of the French colonial timeframe from 1718-1763 between the mostly military population who arrived from Quebec along with La Moyne de Bienville and the commissioner general of Louisiana Jaques de la Chaise from France, particularly after the collapse of the Company of the Indies.

Anyhow I'm getting off onto an interesting...but off topic tangent.

[Echoes]

That was fantastic!

[MJW]

Quebec City is incredible! I've only been there in the winter but it looks like I'll have to make a summertime trip up there. Great photos!

[10101000]

Originally Posted by Uptowngirl

^Yes well, Quebec was an established cities with their own distinct culture, and identity. Same goes for New Orleans...but there was a rift during much of the French colonial timeframe from 1718-1763 between the mostly military population who arrived from Quebec along with La Moyne de Bienville and the commissioner general of Louisiana Jaques de la Chaise from France, particularly after the collapse of the Company of the Indies.

Anyhow I'm getting off onto an interesting...but off topic tangent.

Vous ne m'ennuyez pas, je pense que je pourrais commencer un fil dans la barre de ciel de notre patrimoine. J'inclurai le Mobile, ma ville natale.

[TinChelseaNYC]

This place is indeed a treasure and you took some mighty nice shots of it.

[10101000]

Originally Posted by Uptowngirl

^Yes well, Quebec was an established cities with their own distinct culture, and identity. Same goes for New Orleans...but there was a rift during much of the French colonial timeframe from 1718-1763 between the mostly military population who arrived from Quebec along with La Moyne de Bienville and the commissioner general of Louisiana Jaques de la Chaise from France, particularly after the collapse of the Company of the Indies.

Anyhow I'm getting off onto an interesting...but off topic tangent.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=153761

[urbanactivist]

Originally Posted by Uptowngirl

New Orleans cuts it but it would be nice to look at another place...

Besides most of the original settlers to New Orleans where from Quebec not France so there is a connection there....even the La Moyne Brothers (Iberville/Beinville) were from Quebec.

You're so right, I'm ashamed to have made the comment... I got caught up in the moment.

How about this... New Orleans in winter, la Ville dans l'été

[SteelTown]

Just so some are aware.....today is Québec City's actual 400th birthday, July 3, 1608 at around 11am Samuel de Champlain's ship landed. Big celebrations are taking place today.

All church bell's across Canada rang at 11am.

[harls]

Excellent pics. I was on Ile d'Orleans last year for Canada day.. it was a blast.