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Before 1608 Stadacona First contact

ALBUMS

  1. Jacques Cartier’s first voyage
  2. Before Québec City: the Charlesbourg-Royal colony
1608-1760 Foundation New France begins

ALBUMS

  1. Québec City on the map!
  2. Artists paint New France
  3. Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Church
  4. France and Great Britain wage war
  5. Samuel de Champlain’s founding of Québec City
1760-1791 Reconstruction After the conquest

ALBUMS

  1. Québec City rises again
  2. Québec City through the eyes of British captain Hervey Smyth
  3. Québec City, the maritime capital of the 18th-century
  4. The 1775 attack on Québec City
  5. Québec City as seen by James Peachey
1791-1840 Consolidation The parliamentary city

ALBUMS

  1. Québec City en grand: A few panoramic works from the early 19th century
  2. Québec City’s surroundings through artists’ eyes
  3. Château Saint-Louis in the early 19th century
  4. Québec City’s marketplace in the early 19th century
  5. Buildings as power symbols
  6. Indigenous Peoples in Québec City at the turn of the 19th century
  7. Lévis, forever the opposite of Québec City
  8. A Sunday at the Falls
  9. Sillery, the small industrial hub
  10. Québec City: The Gibraltar of America
  11. Never far from the water
  12. Winter living in Québec City in the early 19th century
  13. A destiny bound by ice!
  14. Touring Québec City with Major-General Cockburn
  15. The rampart gates of Québec City in the early 19th century
  16. A stroll through the streets of Québec City in the early 19th century
1840-1896 Economic crisis The "veille capitale"

ALBUMS

  1. A partly English-speaking city
  2. The river: A flowing source of trade and industry
  3. Changing of the guard in Québec City
  4. When the waters freeze over
  5. Ah! “It has snowed, oh, how it has snowed!”
  6. Around Québec City
  7. Indigenous presence in the second half of the 19th century
  8. Québec City, a city of power!
  9. Québec City’s big fires
  10. Horse-drawn trams
  11. A 360-degree view from Québec City in 1885!
1896-1945 Reinforcement The "Capitale Nationale"

ALBUMS

  1. Bastien Industries
  2. The South African War, from 1899 to 1902
  3. World War I parade
  4. Religious life in Beauport
  5. Québec City workers
  6. The Collège Saint-Charles and the Marist Brothers in Charlesbourg
  7. Québec City by horse-drawn carriage
  8. Corpus Christi, a time-honoured tradition
  9. Construction of the Québec Bridge
  10. Picnics: A summer activity in every era
  11. Québec City’s tercentenary
  12. Sports in the early 19th century
  13. Fly to Québec City!
  14. Sports and leisure in Beauport
  15. A faithful friend throughout history
  16. Winters of yesteryear
  17. Religious life in Charlesbourg
  18. Thaddée Lebel, a pioneer of photography in Québec City
  19. Construction of the Château Frontenac
  20. Culture, leisure and sports in Charlesbourg
  21. Québec City’s surroundings were more than a postcard
  22. Québec City’s big skies
  23. The 1938 National Eucharistic Congress
  24. The war effort: Women’s work in the Dominion Arsenal's factory
  25. The Québec Conferences during World War II
1945-1980 Modernization The quiet revolution

ALBUMS

  1. Economic life in Beauport over the years
  2. Quebec Nordiques in the World Hockey Association
  3. Winter sports in Cap-Rouge from 1930 to 1950
  4. The story of the Quebec Aces
  5. Working at Dominion Corset
  6. A bird’s-eye view of Québec City in the post-war years
  7. A parade by Québec City’s Chinese community during World War II
  8. Je me souviens: Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day commemorative activities in Québec City from the 1940s to the 1960s
  9. Saint-Jean-Baptiste parades in Québec City in the 1950s and 1960s
  10. Life in Sainte-Foy in the 1950s
  11. Québec City, filming grounds for the big and small screens
  12. The Grand Théâtre de Québec, a legacy of the Quiet Revolution
  13. The shopping mall boom in Québec City
  14. Commemorating the past with the restoration of Place Royale
  15. Charles de Gaulle’s visit to Québec City
  16. Kabir Kouba dance troupe
  17. The Pierre-Laporte Bridge, a feat of Quebec engineering
  18. Visionary Québec City: Back to the (city’s) future
  19. The Quebec Remparts
  20. Québec from the air in the early 1970s
  21. Québec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament
  22. Make way for asphalt!
  23. Québec City in the days of professional baseball
  24. The 1974 Superfrancofête
After 1980 Openness Connection to the world

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  1. Québec City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  2. Expo-Québec: Over a century of fun
  3. Department stores
  4. Decline and revitalization of the downtown Saint-Roch district
  5. An ever-more diverse population
  6. The Nordiques in the National Hockey League
  7. From the Eastern Bloc to Québec City: the saga of the Šťastný brothers
  8. The 1980 referendum
  9. Québec City dances to the rhythms of the world
  10. All sails out for Québec 84!
  11. Pope John Paul II visits in 1984
  12. Rendez-vous 87: The Cold War on ice
  13. The Olympic dream: Québec City’s bid to host the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
  14. Reinventing the past: The Médiévales de Québec festival
  15. The 1995 referendum
  16. Commemorating the past: the Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France
  17. The 2001 Summit of the Americas
  18. Acadians in Quebec: A monument inaugurated in 2002
  19. The 400th anniversary of the founding of Québec City in 2008
  20. Acadia rejoices: the Grand Tintamarre of 2008 in Québec City
  21. A breath of fresh air for Québec City residents