CHRISTMAS IN QUEBEC CITY

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1. Christmas Past 2. Christmas Present 3. Christmas Future

WHERE: Petit Champlain
district
HIGHLIGHTS:
Ten-metre spruce tree with
Victorian decorations.
Special exhibit on Christmas
songs through the centuries,
at the Musée de la civilization.
Walking tours hosted by a
character playing Charles
Dickens.
Christmas concerts in historic
Église Notre Dame des
Victoires
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT:
Église Notre Dame des
Victoires. This church fronts
onto Place Royale and is built
on top of the ruins of the first
fortified residence in New
France, erected by Samuel de
Champlain in 1608. Champlain
called the fort the “Habitation
de Quebec,” and its residents
“les habitants.” Champlain’s
original Habitation housed 28
men for their first winter in
Quebec in 1608-09. Only
eight men survived. Christmas
concerts and Christmas
masses here are very special.
WHERE: Vieux Port district WHERE: St. Roch district
HIGHLIGHTS: HIGHLIGHTS:
Christmas tree with lights High-tech aluminum tree
powered by batteries powered by LED lights.
recharged by Université Laval Light shows outside Église St.
students riding stationary Roch, on St. Joseph Street.
bikes. Multicultural exhibit inside of
Christmas-tree labyrinth for Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy,
children. featuring different nativity
Snow slide for children. scenes from around the world.
Christmas market inside of
Marché du Vieux Port, the SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT:
local farmers’ market. St. Joseph Street. This was
Performances by local choirs. the main shopping street in
Quebec City from 1860 until
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT: 1960, until construction of the
At night, grain silos in the Place Laurier shopping mall in
Vieux Port are lit up with suburban Ste. Foy in 1961. To
images of the Northern compete with Place Laurier, St.
Lights. These silos were used Joseph merchants had a dome
as projection screens for built over their street. It was
artist Robert Lepage’s an eyesore and a commercial
acclaimed slide show in the flop. The dome was removed in
summer of 2008 for Quebec the 1990s. Since then, St.
City 400th birthday Joseph has enjoyed a
celebrations. renaissance. Not to be missed
is Laliberté. The store, at 595
St. Joseph St., is a Quebec
City icon. Check out the fur
coats and lingerie in the
storefront window displays.

THE GAZETTE