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Unleashed by the Quiet Revolution, avant-garde ideas were hatching in Quebecers’ minds. This postcard shows the Québec City–Lévis ferry of the future: a hydrofoil boat! As traffic congestion became a growing concern, updating the city’s infrastructure was a main priority. The Vandry-Jobin Report, published in 1967, detailed the urgency of the situation.
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?

The hydrofoil of the future!

Auteur inconnu Unleashed by the Quiet Revolution, avant-garde ideas were hatching in Quebecers’ minds. This postcard shows the Québec City–Lévis ferry of the future: a hydrofoil boat! As traffic congestion became a growing concern, updating the city’s infrastructure was a main priority. The Vandry-Jobin Report, published in 1967, detailed the urgency of the situation.
Chronoscope Can you help archivists classify this photo in one or more image categories? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Yves Beauregard Fonds P119 (unprocessed fonds but digitized image) - Date: 1970