Best Traditional Canadian Quebec City Old Town UNESCO 1985, Charlevoix, Saguenay Fjord, Montmorency Falls and Quebec Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Canada travel | Americas destinations Best Traditional Canadian Quebec City Old Town UNESCO 1985, Charlevoix, Saguenay Fjord, Montmorency Falls and Quebec Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Quebec is the only Canadian province where you can wake up inside a 400-year-old walled city, drink café au lait under the towers of the world's most-photographed hotel, stand on a battlefield that decided the fate of a continent, and end the day eating poutine in French that sounds nothing like Paris. It is 1,542,056 km² of mostly forest, lakes and shoreline, home to 8.7 million people, and roughly 81 percent of them speak French as a first language. Quebec City, the provincial capital with around 500,000 residents, was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 and remains the only walled city north of Mexico. Its Historic District was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, which is why so much of this guide circles around it. Beyond the ramparts you will fi...