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British prime minister Winston Churchill was cheered by the crowd at Place de l’Hôtel de Ville during the Québec Conference in 1943. Churchill was accompanied in the procession by Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King and Québec City mayor Lucien Borne, whose ambitions for his city were bolstered by these conferences.
1942 - 1944

The Québec Conferences during World War II

In 1943 and again in 1944, during World War II, the Allied leaders gathered in Québec City for a major military summit. These conferences were called by the code names “Quadrant” and “Octogone.” Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King hosted the American and British leaders, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. They met at the Château Frontenac and the Citadel. In particular, they planned the Normandy landings, the operation that led to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Discover the moments when a great page of world history was written in Québec City!

Winston Churchill at the Québec Conference in 1943

Auteur inconnu British prime minister Winston Churchill was cheered by the crowd at Place de l’Hôtel de Ville during the Québec Conference in 1943. Churchill was accompanied in the procession by Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King and Québec City mayor Lucien Borne, whose ambitions for his city were bolstered by these conferences.
Chronoscope Can you locate this place on the map? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Date: 1943-08-23