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This image shows the parish of Saint-Louis-de-France in Sainte-Foy, where the residential area is organized into an orderly grid of streets. The liturgical complex was built from 1960 to 1961 by architects Robert Blatter, G.-Fernand Caron and Gilles Côté. The modern church was designed as a sixteen-sided polygon. The building was one of the first of its kind in the region!
1945 - 1969

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?

Aerial view of the Saint-Louis-de-France parish

Auteur inconnu This image shows the parish of Saint-Louis-de-France in Sainte-Foy, where the residential area is organized into an orderly grid of streets. The liturgical complex was built from 1960 to 1961 by architects Robert Blatter, G.-Fernand Caron and Gilles Côté. The modern church was designed as a sixteen-sided polygon. The building was one of the first of its kind in the region!
Chronoscope Can you locate this place of worship, which was demolished in 2020? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - W. B. Edwards Inc. Fonds - Date: 1961