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This image shows several participants of the Québec Conference of September 1944 visiting the provincial National Assembly. Their guide was Maurice Duplessis, who had just been re-elected as premier of Quebec a few weeks earlier, after having held the title from 1936 to 1939. At his side is British prime minister Winston Churchill.
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!

Visit to the Quebec Legislative Assembly during the 1944 Québec Conference

Auteur inconnu This image shows several participants of the Québec Conference of September 1944 visiting the provincial National Assembly. Their guide was Maurice Duplessis, who had just been re-elected as premier of Quebec a few weeks earlier, after having held the title from 1936 to 1939. At his side is British prime minister Winston Churchill.
Chronoscope Can you name the exact day this happened? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Office municipal du tourisme Fonds - Date: 1944-09