A bird’s-eye view of Québec City in the post-war years
The post-war years brought a period of unprecedented prosperity to Québec City. The countryside and villages that once surrounded the city gave way to new, ever-expanding suburbia. It was the era of the bungalow and the shopping mall that, ever spreading, gradually swallowed up the villages around the city. This aerial photo album reflects this era of transformation around Québec City. Do you recognize the region’s landscapes, as they changed between 1945 and the late 1960s?
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In 1663, Monseigneur François de Laval founded the Séminaire de Québec, the first institution of higher learning in New France. In 1852, the leaders of the Séminaire de Québec established a university in the city centre, named Université Laval, in honour of the founder of their seminary. In the 1960s, Université Laval underwent a phase of expansion and moved to the Cité-Universitaire district, built in the suburbs.
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