Early settlements became a militarized colony; Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of ... and modernity-two forces that even today can be difficult to reconcile. Quebec, in its often uneasy union ...

The city was the capital of New France until 1760, after which time it centered the new British colony before becoming part of an independent Canada. Quebec’s Upper Town (Haute-Ville ...

Rising dramatically from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, massive, sheer Percé Rock towers off the tip of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula ... the continent's largest colony of gannet seabirds.

In 1665, there were only seventy houses in Quebec. In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king's daughters - arrived in New France to help populate the colony. (As portrayed in ...