quebec city winter carnival Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/quebec-city-winter-carnival Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Quebec City http://travelsfinders.com/quebec-city.html http://travelsfinders.com/quebec-city.html#respond Wed, 11 May 2016 00:27:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203895 One of the oldest European settlements in the New World, Quebec City was named after an Algonquian word meaning place where the river narrows. Its powerful influence and strategic location on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River invited several sieges over the colonial period, as Quebec City evolved from a trading post into the heart of New France and finally into a British colony. In 1535, when French explorer Jacques Cartier visited the area where Quebec City later took root, about 500 St. Lawrence Iroquois inhabited the nearby village of Stadacona. Cartier claimed the region for France. He

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