jacques cartier

1534: Everything You Wanted to Know about Cartier & Other Quebec Curios

June 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Vikings may have landed in Canada first, but the first permanent settlement was manned by Jacques Cartier, a French explorer. Learn about this era of exploration in this week’s Quebec Curios.

Montreal Fireworks: Hong Kong’s Over the Top Big Bang

July 20, 2015 // 3 Comments

Fireworks. Hong Kong. Montreal Jacques Cartier Bridge. Photo Diamond Yao.

With enough firey hearts to give a heart attack, Hong Kong’s display packs a wallop.

My Montreal: Ahuntsic-Cartierville & Other Quebec Curios

July 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Belmont Park in 1948. Belmont Park, an amusement park now no longer in operation, was in the area which is now the Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Source: Fonds Conrad Poirier/BAnQ. Accession number: P48,S1,P16831

Quebec Curios explores the first in a series of Montreal’s boroughs and municipalities with Ahuntsic-Cartierville, home to one of the oldest settlements on the island.

A Little History of Quebec Legal Systems & Other Quebec Curios

January 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Jacques Cartier meets Chief Donnaconna, butter sculpture style. Part of the Franco-British Exposition in London in 1908. Source: Private collection/Wikimedia Commons.

It’s Cartier’s fault, of course. Or maybe Champlain. Whether you count the discoverer or the first colony builder/explorer, it is partly their fault that Quebec has two [read on]