The project for a third connection between Québec City and Lévis is not at all a new idea. This 1970s postcard shows that the idea to build a tunnel has be in the collective imagination for years. Mayor of Lévis Adélard Bégin raised the possibility in 1947 when plans for a bridge linking Lévis to the Citadel area were deemed unaffordable.

1969 - 1972

Visionary Québec City: Back to the (city’s) future

The fertile human imagination is sometimes limited only by the means available to achieve its ambitions. Right here in Québec City, all kinds of visionary projects never did materialize. This album is inspired by the way the future, progress and science fiction were imagined in the early 1970s. Get a glimpse of a “future” Québec City through these old projects that never happened. Realistic or not? You be the judge! Do you have any memories of projects like this?

Is the so-called “third link” a modern project?

Auteur inconnu The project for a third connection between Québec City and Lévis is not at all a new idea. This 1970s postcard shows that the idea to build a tunnel has be in the collective imagination for years. Mayor of Lévis Adélard Bégin raised the possibility in 1947 when plans for a bridge linking Lévis to the Citadel area were deemed unaffordable.

Chronoscope Can you locate on the map where this tunnel would have ended? (unilingual French for a limited time)

Depicted period: 1972

Source: Ville de Québec Yves Beauregard Fonds P119 (unprocessed fonds but digitized image) - Date: 1969

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