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Cities, towns and regions tell their stories

For thousands of years, men, women and children have been choosing places to stop or settle throughout Quebec.

Local museums are witnesses to activities and lifestyles adapted to the land chosen or abandoned by families of miners and farmers, by entrepreneurs, artists, craftspeople and merchants.



What do we know about…

The geological fault and the parting of the waters that created the landscape and resources of Abitibi-Témiscamingue? About the pioneers who led a harsh life in the new colony?


 

The spectacular meteorite that formed the Charlevoix landscape thousands of years ago, and the avid interest in landscape and contemporary arts in the region?

The new land division and the cultural and economic impact resulting from the arrival of United Empire Loyalists in the late 18th century, fleeing the United States to take refuge in the Eastern Townships?

This region shaped by unique bodies of water - the Saguenay Fjord, Lac Saint-Jean and the Saguenay River - and by the Société des Vingt-et-Un, the fur trade, forestry and the agri-food industry?

The Gaspé and the Lower St. Lawrence and their Acadian, English, Jersey, Quebec and Indian villages? Quebec's first tourist and resort destination for the upper middle classes!

About the Mauricie?

Montérégie?

Central Quebec and Chaudière-Appalaches?


So many museums and cultural landscapes.

So many stories that help us understand urban and rural Quebec.

So many exceptional places to discover a world where art combines with geology, history, geography and traditions.

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