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This photo captures the historic moment when Canada’s prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King welcomed Soong Tse-ven, China’s minister of foreign affairs. He represented China at the 1943 Québec Conference and took part in organizing the Allied strategy against Japan.
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!

Mackenzie King and T. V. Soong at the Québec Conference

Auteur inconnu This photo captures the historic moment when Canada’s prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King welcomed Soong Tse-ven, China’s minister of foreign affairs. He represented China at the 1943 Québec Conference and took part in organizing the Allied strategy against Japan.
Chronoscope Can you locate where this photo was taken? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Date: 1943-01-01