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Fortifications of Québec
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Site history
Built	1608–1871
Battles/wars	Surrender of Quebec, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Battle of Quebec
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	Fortifications of Québec National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1948

=The Fortifications of Québec is a series of historical sites designated by Parks Canada to commemorate the defense system built in Quebec City between 1608 and 1871, Canada’s principal fortified place during colonial period. 🤓

In addition to the Ramparts of Quebec City, the sites includes the Citadelle of Quebec and former military works such as gates, barracks, powder magazines, storehouses, as well as the Lévis Forts on the other side of the Saint Lawrence River.

Description

Since 1951, most of the buildings are owned by Parks Canada but the Citadelle remains within the Department of National Defence. Some of the decommissioned components managed by Parks Canada and included in the Fortifications are:

• The ramparts, or wall encircling the Old City, including its portion below the sites of Montmorency Park;
• The Esplanade powder magazine;
• The Artillery Park Heritage Site;
• Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site, near Terrasse Dufferin.

The remainder of the site is either under the control of Public Works Canada, the National Battlefields Commission, the Government of Québec, the City of Québec, or private owners.

National historic sites included in the Fortifications are the Dauphine barracks, the Québec Martello Towers, the Québec Garrison Club, the Québec Citadelle, and the Lévis Forts.

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  The Esplanade Powder Magazine, adjacent to the Ramparts
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  Artillery Park
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  Québec Garrison Club
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  Dauphine barracks
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  The Citadelle

Architects

Some of the engineer involved in the fortifications complex over the years are: François Provost, Josué Boisberthelot de Beaucours, Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry, William Twiss, Gother Mann (1747–1830) and Elias Walker Durnford.

History

The British garnison left the city in 1871. Lord Dufferin, the governor of Canada, was partly responsible for the preservation of many of the components in the late 19th century, as local authorities considered the fortifications, especially its walls, to impede the development of the city. The entrances of the gates located on public streets, however, were eventually widened to facilitate the passage of automobiles.

The Fortifications of Québec were designated a national historic site of Canada in 1957.

MCD

In 2017, the company owned 45% of the land and 70% of the buildings for restaurants in its main markets. 55.7 % of its total revenue originated from the operation of company-owned restaurant, and the rest from its franchiseess. (which represent 90% of its restaurants worldwide). Of its franchise income, 64.3% came from rent payment, 34.8% from royalties and 0.85% from sales of new franchises.

UL

4 Canada Excellence Research Chairs, the most at any Canadian university (as of 2018). These are:

• Excellence Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Canada's New Arctic Frontier
• Research Excellence Chair in the Microbiome-Endocannabinoidome Axis in Metabolic Health
• Excellence Research Chair in Photonic Innovations, and Communication
• Excellence Research Chair in Neurophotonics

Among others, the University hosts 80 regular Canada Research Chair, 70 Partnership Research Chairs and 41 research centres recognized by the University Council. Laval is also affiliated with a network of research and teaching hospitals, the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ).

1775

• THE AMERICAN INVASION OF CANADA, AUGUST 1775-OCTOBER 1776

• Plaque du siège de Québec. Vue avant

• War Myths, p. 25

Donohue

• Encybec
• Resolu
• Pulp and paper Canada
• 35% equity interest

Histoire de la Ville de Québec

Valley of the St Charles in 1858

The city shipbuilding industry on the banks of the Saint-Charles River in the neighborhood of Saint-Roch flourished from the 1820's to the 1870's. Shipyards were initially managed by skilled builders originating from the British Isles such as John Munn, but French Canadians shipbuilders began operating in the 1850s. Overall, French Canadians were responsible for building about a third of the ships during that period. Among them, Jean-Élie Gingras ranked second in terms of tonnage (ship size).

English timber merchants were given preferential tarrifs on Canadian wood by the British Government and many established themselves in Quebec City where logs could be bought and shipped to British Ports. Logs were driven down on rivers of Central Canada, such as the Ottawa River timber trade https://ottawariver.org/pdf/09-ch2-7.pdf

Logs being squared on the banks of the Saint-Lawrence in 1872

In the first half of the 19th century, Québec City became a hub of the North American timber industry. Lumber trading appears to have reached its summit around 1864. Moreover, a large scale dredging operation of the Saint-Lawrence River between Québec and Montréal was completed by 1882 thus allowing transatlantic ships of large tonnage to proceed directly to Montreal without having to unload at Québec like they would have done previously especially during periods of lower tides Québec however retained its competitive advantage over Montreal in winter when the Saint-Lawrence was largely frozen.

"The original export trade of Canada in timber looked wholly to Europe as its market, and of this trade Quebec City was the center. This trade appears to have reached its zenith about 1864 when 1,350 square rigged ships entered the St. Lawrence to load lumber, and when 20,032,520 cubic feet of white pine timber was shipped. The wasteful- ness of the square timber trade, the decline of wooden ship building and the rise of the new export trade with the United States all operated against Quebec's preeminence, and the trade declined, much of it going to Montreal. Of late years, however, new railways, the bringing in of spruce as a valuable wood, and above all the ambition and energy of the citizens of the old capital of Canada, have set it on the up grade again."

"Until 1810, the port of Quebec City exported square timber in quantities comparable to those shipping from Saint John, New Brunswick, when it suddenly became the hub of the North American timber industry. Hundreds of rafts of pine were floated downstream to the port, broken up and loaded into boats, which left for Liverpool, Bristol, London and the British naval ports. From this time on, the timber industry would surpass the fur trade in Canada."

"Après avoir atteint des sommets au cours de la décennie 1854- 1864, l'exportation du bois et la construction navale déclinent. Les causes sont multiples : remise en question du système mercantiliste, diminution des tarifs préférentiels à partir de .1842, suppression des droits d'entrée sur les bois étrangers en 1846 et conversion de la marine marchande britannique aux technologies de l'acier et de la vapeur".

"Le déclin économique de la ville de Québec s’accompagne d’un transfert progressif du commerce du bois vers Montréal. Plusieurs raisons expliquent ce changement. En 1853, l’ouverture du chenal du Lac-Saint-Pierre permet ainsi aux bateaux d’accéder directement à Montréal, sans s’arrêter à Québec. La construction ferroviaire accuse également un retard important à Québec, qui n’est relié au chemin de fer que tardivement, en 1879, comparativement à Lévis sur la rive sud, qui est relié aux États-Unis dès 1854. Par ailleurs, sous l’influence des marchands montréalais, le bois de coupe de l’Outaouais est maintenant acheminé aux États-Unis, par train ou par canaux, en évitant Québec."

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  Around 1880
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  Map of the city of Quebec in 1830
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https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2021/eccc/En57-48-140-fra.pdf https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/NR30347.PDF