All sites
198 results
Old Montréal and Place Jacques-Cartier
The historic and touristic heart of Montréal, Place Jacques-Cartier is a gently sloping cobblestone esplanade lined with restaurants and 19th-century buildings, linking City Hall to the Old Port.
Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal
Montréal's mother church and a Neo-Gothic masterpiece, Notre-Dame Basilica impresses with its richly carved wood interior, stained-glass windows, and monumental Casavant organ.
Bonsecours Market
An elegant Neoclassical building topped with a silver dome, Bonsecours Market today houses Québec craft boutiques, restaurants, and exhibition halls in the heart of Old Montréal.
Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex
Built directly on the archaeological site where Montréal was founded in 1642, this museum—unique in Canada—lets visitors descend below street level to explore authentic remains.
Château Ramezay — Montréal Museum and Historic Site
The first building in Québec to be designated a historic monument, Château Ramezay offers a journey through 500 years of Montréal history, complemented by a New France–style garden.
Mount Royal Park
A vast green space designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (also the designer of New York's Central Park), Mount Royal offers spectacular views over the city and is home to the Kondiaronk lookout, the park's most visited spot.
Montréal Botanical Garden
One of the world's leading botanical gardens, spanning 75 hectares with 22,000 plant species, 10 exhibition greenhouses, and some thirty themed gardens, including the renowned Chinese and Japanese gardens.
Montréal Biodôme
Housed in the former 1976 Olympic Velodrome, the Biodôme recreates four ecosystems of the Americas (tropical rainforest, maple forest, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and polar world) under a single roof.
Jean-Drapeau Park (Saint Helen's Island and Notre Dame Island)
An archipelago of islands built up in the St. Lawrence, host of the 1967 World's Fair and today a public park home to the Biosphère, the Formula 1 racetrack, and La Ronde amusement park.
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
Québec's oldest and largest art museum, the MMFA brings together nearly 47,000 works across five pavilions, including a former church converted into a Canadian art exhibition space.
Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art
Canada's only museum entirely dedicated to contemporary art, featuring a permanent collection of more than 8,000 works alongside exhibitions by Québec and international artists.
Biosphère
An iconic geodesic structure designed by architect Richard Buckminster Fuller for the United States Pavilion at Expo 67, now dedicated to environmental awareness.
Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
A popular astronomy institution with two immersive theatres presenting scientific and poetic shows about the Universe, next door to the Biodôme and Olympic Stadium.
Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal
The world's largest sanctuary dedicated to Saint Joseph, founded by Brother André, the Oratory welcomes about two million pilgrims and visitors each year and forms the highest visible point on the Montréal skyline.
Jean-Talon Market
One of the largest open-air public markets in North America, at the heart of Little Italy, where market gardeners, cheesemakers, and culinary artisans have gathered since 1933.
Montréal's Chinatown
Canada's oldest still-active Chinatown, recognizable by its monumental arches, concentrating restaurants, grocery stores, and cultural associations since the late 19th century.
Old Québec (Historic District, UNESCO World Heritage Site)
The only fortified city north of Mexico, Old Québec invites exploration of its small cobblestone streets, blending French, British, and Indigenous influences in a setting that has inspired many filmmakers.
Château Frontenac and Dufferin Terrace
Said by enduring tourist legend to be the most photographed hotel in the world, Château Frontenac crowns Cap Diamant and remains the most immediate visual symbol of Québec City.
Citadelle of Québec
The largest British military structure in North America, nicknamed the "Gibraltar of America," the Citadelle remains an active military base, home to the Royal 22e Régiment, the only French-speaking unit of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Place Royale
The exact site where Champlain founded Québec City in 1608, Place Royale preserves restored stone houses from the French regime, forming a remarkably well-preserved setting from New France.
Petit-Champlain District
One of the oldest commercial streets in North America, lined with artisan boutiques and reached via the Casse-Cou stairway or the Old Québec funicular.
Battlefields Park (Plains of Abraham)
Canada's first national historic park, the site of the decisive 1759 battle, the Plains of Abraham today form one of the most prestigious urban parks in the world, often compared to Central Park or Hyde Park.
Montmorency Falls Park
At 83 metres, Montmorency Falls is higher than the famous Niagara Falls, and its cable car, suspension bridge, and panoramic staircase make it one of the most accessible natural sites in Québec.
Île d'Orléans (Island Tour, Chemin Royal)
Cradle of several founding French-Canadian families, Île d'Orléans offers, just fifteen minutes from Québec City, a journey back in time through six traditional villages, orchards, vineyards, and market gardens.
Musée de la civilisation
A state museum known for its bold museology, designed by internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie, offering fresh and often unexpected perspectives on the human experience.
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Home to the world's most important collection of Québec art (more than 42,000 works from the 17th century to today), the MNBAQ occupies an exceptional site at the heart of the Plains of Abraham.
Museum of French America (Séminaire de Québec)
Housed within the walls of the Séminaire de Québec, founded in 1663 by Bishop de Laval, this museum traces the history of the French presence in North America through an exceptional collection of religious, scientific, and artistic objects.
Village Vacances Valcartier
Eastern Canada's largest outdoor water park and the largest winter games centre in the Americas, Village Vacances Valcartier features more than 35 slides, themed rivers, and the Ice Hotel during the cold season.
Aquarium du Québec
Spread over 16 hectares in Sainte-Foy, the Aquarium du Québec is home to more than 10,000 marine animals, including polar bears, walruses, and seals, in a setting combining indoor and outdoor exhibits.
Observatoire de la Capitale
Located atop the Marie-Guyart building, the city's tallest, the Observatoire offers the only 360-degree view of Québec City, 221 metres above the river.
Ice Hotel (Hôtel de Glace)
North America's first ice hotel, entirely rebuilt each year from snow and ice, the property features themed rooms, an ice bar, and a chapel, for an overnight stay or simply an extraordinary visit.
Baie-Saint-Paul and Rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste
An artistic cradle nestled in a picturesque valley, Baie-Saint-Paul concentrates an exceptional density of art galleries along its main street, making this village the historic starting point of Cirque du Soleil.
Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul
Charlevoix's only museum entirely devoted to Québec contemporary art, this institution has organized the International Symposium of Contemporary Art since 1982, a flagship event where artists create live before the public.
Le Massif de Charlevoix
Boasting the highest skiable vertical drop east of the Canadian Rockies, this resort in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François also offers one of Canada's longest alpine luge runs, at 7.5 kilometres, plus an exceptional view of the St. Lawrence River.
Grands-Jardins National Park
Unique in Québec for its preserved taiga landscape at the heart of the Charlevoix crater, this park lets visitors, from the summit of Mont du Lac-des-Cygnes, observe both the outline of the astrobleme and a population of woodland caribou isolated from the rest of the species.
Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park
Home to the highest rock walls east of the Canadian Rockies, some exceeding 800 metres in elevation, this park, created in 2000, is best discovered aboard a riverboat cruise up the steep valley of the Malbaie River.
Musée de Charlevoix
Preserving nearly 9,000 objects and 6,000 archival documents, this art, ethnology, and history museum traces Charlevoix's distinctive identity, from its folk-art tradition to the artistic ferment that marked the region throughout the 20th century.
Casino de Charlevoix
Right next door to the Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, this regional casino offers table games and slot machines in an intimate setting, rounding out the upscale entertainment offering that has defined the Pointe-au-Pic area for more than a century.
Domaine Forget de Charlevoix
An internationally renowned music and dance institution overlooking the St. Lawrence River from the heights of Saint-Irénée, the Domaine combines a training academy, an international festival, and a one-of-a-kind outdoor sculpture garden.
Charlevoix Astrobleme Observatory
Dedicated to understanding the meteorite crater that shaped the entire Charlevoix landscape, this centre offers guided tours exploring the geology, origin, and human consequences of an impact that occurred 350 million years ago.
Charlevoix Flavour Trail
Bringing together more than forty producers and restaurateurs between Baie-Saint-Paul and La Malbaie, this gourmet trail, rooted in Charlevoix's distinctive agriculture, lets visitors discover cheeses, ciders, chocolates, and other local specialties directly from their makers.
Percé Rock
Gaspésie's most recognizable symbol, this massive limestone rock pierced by a natural arch rises just a few hundred metres offshore, formed roughly 400 million years ago.
Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park
Accessible only by boat from the Percé wharf, Bonaventure Island is home to the largest and most accessible Northern gannet colony in the world, with more than 100,000 nesting birds.
Forillon National Park
At the peninsula's northeastern tip, where sea meets mountain, Forillon combines limestone cliffs, beaches, spectacular trails, and a rich fishing heritage across nearly 245 km².
Gaspésie National Park
A true sea of mountains at the heart of the peninsula, this park protects 25 summits over 1,000 metres, including Mont Jacques-Cartier, Québec's second-highest peak, and shelters the only woodland caribou herd south of the St. Lawrence River.
Paspébiac Fishing Bank National Historic Site
A witness to the golden age of cod fishing in Gaspésie, this site preserves a unique set of commercial buildings erected between the 18th and 20th centuries by major Jersey fishing companies that dominated the regional economy for nearly two centuries.
Anse-Blanchette Historic Site (Forillon sector)
A living recreation of an early-20th-century fishing and farming family operation, this sector of Forillon Park lets visitors, through the Dolbel-Roberts House and the exhibition "These Gaspesians from the Ends of the Earth," discover the daily life of the multicultural communities that shaped the coastline.
Pointe-à-la-Renommée Lighthouse
Perched on a mountainside with a spectacular sea view, the Pointe-à-la-Renommée lighthouse holds the distinction of being Québec's most-travelled lighthouse, repatriated to its original site in 1997 after twenty years of exile in Québec City.
Carleton-sur-Mer and Mont Saint-Joseph
Overlooking the Baie des Chaleurs from 555 metres, this summit—sacred to the Mi'kmaq before becoming a Catholic pilgrimage site in 1935—offers an exceptional lookout over the coastline and a sound-and-light show in its historic oratory.
Bioparc de la Gaspésie
Open since 1998, this educational wildlife park showcases about forty species native to Québec across five recreated Gaspésie ecosystems, complemented by an insectarium and the unique opportunity to spend the night alongside wolves.
Matane Wildlife Reserve and Salmon Watching
Known for hosting one of the province's largest concentrations of Atlantic salmon, the Matane wildlife reserve lets visitors watch these fish climb the rapids from an interpretation centre built right along the riverbank.
Percé Geopark (Geosite)
Designated a UNESCO Global Geopark, the Percé territory features an exceptional concentration of remarkable geological formations, from Percé Rock to fossil-bearing cliffs, recounting more than 500 million years of Earth's history.
Mont-Joli and the Matapédia Valley
A point of convergence between the maritime route along the St. Lawrence and the inland Matapédia Valley, this green corridor dotted with renowned salmon rivers and farming villages offers a scenic alternative to Gaspésie's coastal cliffs.
Murdochville and the Mont Miller Lookout
A former mining town founded in 1951 around copper extraction, Murdochville has reinvented itself as a wind-energy hub and offers, from the Mont Miller lookout, one of the most complete panoramas over the Chic-Chocs range and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Gaspé and the Musée de la Gaspésie
A founding town where Jacques Cartier took possession of the territory in the name of the King of France in 1534, Gaspé pairs this founding heritage with its regional museum, which traces five centuries of history of the First Nations, fishers, and settlers who shaped the peninsula's identity.
Bic National Park
With its capes, coves, bays, and islands carving up the St. Lawrence maritime estuary, Bic National Park offers sunsets regularly ranked among the most beautiful in the world, along with remarkably accessible wildlife.
Reford Gardens (Jardins de Métis)
A Canadian national historic site, Reford Gardens rank among the northernmost gardens in North America, where Elsie Reford managed, thanks to a unique microclimate, to grow species as rare as the Himalayan blue poppy.
Pointe-au-Père Maritime Historic Site
Combining Canada's second-tallest lighthouse, a Cold War submarine open for tours, and a museum devoted to the tragic sinking of the Empress of Ireland, this site offers one of Québec's most complete maritime history experiences.
Kamouraska
Renowned for the beauty of its coastal landscapes, ancestral homes, and sunsets over the estuary, the village of Kamouraska lends its name to an entire region known for agritourism and distinctive built heritage.
Parc des Chutes (Rivière-du-Loup)
An urban park offering more than ten kilometres of forest trails, the Rivière-du-Loup Parc des Chutes stands out for its 33-metre waterfall and a still-operating former hydroelectric power station.
Notre-Dame-du-Portage
A resort municipality next to Rivière-du-Loup, Notre-Dame-du-Portage is prized for its sandy beach, heated saltwater pool, and landscaped parks offering views of the river and its islands.
Trois-Pistoles and Its Church
Closely tied to the imagination of writer Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, who was born there, the village of Trois-Pistoles is notably known for its imposing five-steeple Notre-Dame-des-Neiges church, rich in local legends told via an audio-guided tour.
Lac-Témiscouata National Park
The newest of the Bas-Saint-Laurent national parks, it protects 175 km² of forests, lakes, and rivers at the heart of the Notre-Dame mountains, and reveals traces of continuous human occupation dating back nearly 10,000 years.
Île Verte and Its Lighthouse
The only year-round inhabited island on the St. Lawrence in this stretch, Île Verte is home to the river's oldest still-operating lighthouse, reachable on foot via a natural ice bridge in winter—a quirk that delights curious visitors every year.
Matane (Lighthouse and Salmon Migratory Pass)
A port town known for its cold-water shrimp, Matane offers the unique opportunity to watch, from a migratory fish pass built at the foot of a dam, Atlantic salmon swimming upstream to spawn.
Saguenay Fjord National Park
Set along both shores of the Saguenay Fjord, this 326.7 km² park protects cliffs reaching up to 412 metres at Cap Trinité and offers some of Québec's most spectacular panoramas.
Pointe-Taillon National Park
Forming a vast sandy peninsula between Lac Saint-Jean and the Péribonka River, this 92 km² park offers more than 15 km of beaches and 45 km of bike paths, including an iconic stretch of the Véloroute des Bleuets.
Monts-Valin National Park
Home to the highest accessible peaks in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, this park is famous for its Valley of Ghosts, where frost-coated conifers take on spectral shapes in winter.
Val-Jalbert Historic Village
Frozen in time since 1927 when its pulp mill closed, this former company town has some forty preserved original buildings, dominated by the towering Ouiatchouan Falls, higher than Niagara Falls.
La Pulperie de Chicoutimi — Regional Museum
Set within the industrial remains of a former pulp mill built between 1897 and 1921, this cultural and museum complex tells the story of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean's industrialization.
Saint-Félicien Wildlife Zoo
Canada's only zoo to feature geladas, this 485-hectare wildlife park devoted to boreal fauna conservation lets visitors observe animals in near-total freedom aboard a train crossing their natural habitat.
La Fabuleuse Histoire d'un Royaume
Performed every summer since 1988 at La Baie's municipal Palais theatre, this large-scale historical pageant features more than 100 volunteers and extras retelling the epic settlement of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
Musée du Fjord
Featuring a 53,000-litre saltwater aquarium, this interactive science museum introduces visitors of all ages to the ecosystems of the Saguenay Fjord and Ha! Ha! Bay through an immersive exhibition.
Véloroute des Bleuets
With its 256 km of bike path looping entirely around Lac Saint-Jean, the Véloroute des Bleuets is one of the longest continuous cycling circuits in North America encircling a single body of water.
Musée ilnu de Mashteuiatsh
Located at the heart of the Ilnu community of Mashteuiatsh on the western shore of Lac Saint-Jean, this museum presents the history, material culture, and living traditions of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation.
Sainte-Rose-du-Nord
Nestled between the steep cliffs of the fjord's north shore, this picturesque village offers one of the finest road-accessible viewpoints over the Saguenay, especially prized at sunset.
Fjord Cruises and Maritime Shuttles
Linking several fjord-side villages from June to September, cruises and maritime shuttles offer a unique perspective on the Saguenay's cliffs, inaccessible by road along several stretches of the route.
Tadoussac and the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park
Canada's first fur-trading post, established in 1600, and renowned as one of the world's most beautiful bays, Tadoussac is the essential gateway to the Whale Route and the starting point for most estuary whale-watching cruises.
Cap-de-Bon-Désir Interpretation and Observation Centre
Just 30 metres from shore, a 200-metre-deep underwater wall draws whales close to this Parks Canada–operated site, one of Québec's best spots for watching cetaceans from dry land.
Daniel-Johnson Dam and Manic-5 Power Station
The world's largest multiple-arch buttress dam, 214 metres high and 1,314 metres wide at the crest, this symbol of Québec's Quiet Revolution can be toured free of charge by reservation, at the heart of the spectacular inland Côte-Nord territory.
Le Vieux-Poste de Sept-Îles
A recreation of a 19th-century fur-trading post, built on the very site of a former Hudson's Bay Company establishment, this historic site traces the daily commercial relations between Europeans and First Nations on the Côte-Nord.
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve
Home to the largest concentration of limestone monoliths in Canada, this archipelago of nearly 1,000 islands and islets sculpted by marine erosion is Québec's best site for spotting Atlantic puffins.
Anticosti National Park
Québec's largest island, comparable in area to Corsica, Anticosti is home to Vauréal Falls, 76 metres high, as well as Québec's longest known cave, in a territory shaped by the legacy of a fabulously wealthy French chocolate magnate.
Gilles Vigneault's Birthplace and Heritage Site
In this remote village of Acadian and Innu fishers at the end of Route 138, the birthplace of poet and songwriter Gilles Vigneault, along with the old school restored by village volunteers, tells the origins of one of Québec song's greatest artists.
Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse
Québec's second-oldest still-active lighthouse, built in 1830 to secure the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, this octagonal lighthouse now houses a museum devoted to navigation and the history of Côte-Nord shipwrecks.
Île aux Perroquets and the Mingan Archipelago Lighthouse Stations
A seabird sanctuary nestled at the western tip of the Mingan Archipelago, Île aux Perroquets owes its name to the Atlantic puffin colonies that frequent it, and offers unique heritage lodging in the former lighthouse keeper's house.
Anticosti Ecomuseum and the Menier Chocolate Heritage
Devoted to the island's singular history, this Port-Menier ecomuseum traces the adventure of French chocolate magnate Henri Menier, sole owner of the island in the late 19th century, as well as the territory's exceptional paleontology.
Mont-Orford National Park
Dominated by Mont Orford (853 m) and Mont Chauve, this park, created in 1938 through an intermunicipal agreement, combines 25 km of hiking trails, two swimming-friendly lakes, and an internationally renowned music arts centre.
Saint-Benoît-du-Lac Abbey
Located on the shore of Lake Memphrémagog, this Benedictine abbey with flamboyant Art Deco styling offers guided tours, an artisan cheese and cider shop, and a prayer trail dotted with meditative texts deep in the forest.
North Hatley and Lake Massawippi
Considered one of Québec's most beautiful villages, North Hatley combines an exceptional density of restaurants and vineyards, an enchanting setting on the shores of Lake Massawippi, and a thoroughly village-like atmosphere despite a population of just 700.
ASTROLab and Observatory of Mont-Mégantic National Park
At the heart of the world's first internationally recognized dark-sky reserve, this interpretation centre combines immersive exhibits, 4K giant-screen projections, and access to a 1.6-metre telescope, the most powerful in Canada open to the public.
Yamaska National Park
Created in 1983 around the Choinière Reservoir, this Appalachian lowlands park offers a lifeguard-supervised beach popular with families, plus a network of hiking and biking trails crossing a forested valley typical of the region.
Bromont, Montagne d'Expériences
A four-season destination founded in 1964 by the Désourdy brothers, Bromont combines a ski resort, water park, mountain biking, and golf on Mont Brome, in a town now also known for its cutting-edge tech sector.
Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke
Housed since 2002 in a former silk-stocking factory in downtown Sherbrooke, this science museum showcases a collection of more than 65,000 natural history specimens, including the immersive AlterAnima exhibit featuring hundreds of taxidermied animals.
Knowlton Heritage Village (Lac-Brome)
Founded in 1855, this village with exceptionally well-preserved built heritage features a succession of Victorian homes, municipal buildings, and places of worship reflecting the economic and cultural prosperity of the former Lac-Brome municipality.
Eaton Corner Historic Site
A must for history enthusiasts, this 19th-century site brings together a former 1840–1841 Congregational church, a heritage-designated academy, and several wood and brick residences typical of Eastern Townships architecture.
Coaticook Gorge Park and Suspension Bridge
Home to the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge at the time of its opening, this regional park lets visitors look down into the spectacular gorge carved by the Coaticook River, some fifty metres deep.
Canadian Museum of History
Canada's most-visited museum institution, this national museum of social history is housed in an iconic building designed by Indigenous architect Douglas Cardinal and features the world's largest indoor exhibit of monumental totem poles.
Casino du Lac-Leamy
A major lakeside entertainment complex, this casino offers table games, slot machines, and shows in a theatre seating more than 1,000 people, while also hosting the popular Grands Feux fireworks festival every summer.
Gatineau Park
Nicknamed the green lung of the Outaouais, this conservation park spanning more than 361 km² is home to North America's largest cross-country ski trail network, plus five public beaches set around its lakes.
Plaisance National Park
Made up of marshes, ponds, and deciduous forests along the Ottawa River, this relatively recent park offers nearly 40 km of hiking and biking trails, including the popular Zizanie-des-Marais trail running through the wetlands.
Fairmont Le Château Montebello
Built in just four months in 1930 as a private club for a North American elite, this log château—the largest of its kind in the world—remains an emblematic symbol of rustic Québec hospitality.
Parc Oméga
Founded in 1991 on 2,200 acres of natural land, this wildlife park offers a formula unique in Québec: drive your own car along more than 12 km of trails where deer, wolves, bears, and bison roam in semi-freedom, and which visitors can feed directly.
Manoir-Papineau National Historic Site
The former seigneurial residence of Louis-Joseph Papineau, undisputed leader of the 1830s Patriote movement, this manor and its estate bear witness to the landed aristocracy that marked Lower Canada's political history.
Canadian Children's Museum
Part of the Canadian Museum of History, this interactive museum space invites children to explore world cultures through play and sensory discovery, in an educational setting designed specifically for young audiences.
Mauricie National Park
Crossed by a horseshoe-shaped scenic road linking its two entrances over nearly 64 km, this Canadian Shield park offers crystal-clear lakes, spectacular lookouts, and one of central Québec's most renowned trail networks.
Village du Bûcheron
A living replica of an early-20th-century Québec logging camp, this site of more than 25 log buildings brings to life, with musician guides and storytellers, the lifestyle of the forestry workers who shaped the Mauricie economy.
La Cité de l'énergie
A museum complex unique in Canada, built on the site of former power stations and aluminum plants, this site combines a 115-metre observation tower, a multimedia show, and a guided tour of historic hydroelectric power stations, some still partly operational.
Forges du Saint-Maurice National Historic Site
The birthplace of Canadian steelmaking, founded in 1730, this national site preserves the archaeological remains of North America's first blast furnaces, where iron and cast iron were produced from ore mined in the surrounding marshes.
Old Trois-Rivières
Canada's second-oldest city, founded in 1634, Trois-Rivières' historic district combines a riverside promenade along the St. Lawrence, a Neo-Gothic cathedral with Florentine stained glass, and a 19th-century former prison turned interactive museum.
Musée Pop (Québec Museum of Popular Culture)
Housed in a museum complex including the adjacent Old Prison, Musée Pop explores Québec's social and cultural history through a thoroughly contemporary lens, blending folk art, mass culture, and ever-renewed themed exhibitions.
Our Lady of the Cape Shrine
The second most important Marian shrine in North America after Our Lady of Guadalupe, this pilgrimage site welcomes more than 500,000 visitors annually around a 1717 votive chapel and a futuristic-looking modern basilica.
Boréalis — Paper Industry History Centre
Housed in a former Canadian International Paper water filtration plant, this interpretation centre traces the golden age of the paper industry that long earned Trois-Rivières the title of world newsprint capital.
Pointe-du-Lac Seigneurial Mill
Built in 1721 by seigneur René Godefroy de Tonnancour, this flour mill bears witness to the seigneurial system that structured economic and social life in New France, where every tenant had to mill their grain at the local communal mill.
Île-des-Moulins Historic Site
Québec's second-most-important historic reconstruction site after Place-Royale in Québec City, this complex of five restored 18th-century buildings reflects the seigneurial system established as early as 1721 by Louis Lepage de Sainte-Claire.
Old Terrebonne
Considered one of Québec's richest collections of built heritage, this historic district along the Mille Îles River brings together several 18th- and 19th-century architectural gems in a thoroughly lively atmosphere.
Musée d'art de Joliette
Québec's third-most-important art museum, with a collection of nearly 9,000 works spanning eight centuries of art history, this light-filled museum occupies a prime spot facing the Assomption River.
Festival de Lanaudière
Canada's most important classical music festival, this summer event gathers internationally renowned orchestras and soloists every year at the Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre, in an exceptional pastoral setting.
Chutes-Dorwin Park
Set along the Ouareau River, these spectacular 18-metre falls, surrounded by a maple grove and a century-old pine forest, rank among the most photographed natural sites in the Rawdon area.
Maison Louis-Cyr
Set in the actual residence once owned by legendary strongman Louis Cyr, this restored house-museum traces the childhood, rise, feats, and circus life of the man considered the strongest in history.
Musée Gilles-Villeneuve
Paying tribute to the Formula 1 driver many experts consider the fastest in history, this Berthierville museum displays race cars and snowmobiles, driving simulators, and a vast collection of objects tracing the meteoric career of this local-born star.
Domaine de la forêt perdue and Forêt Ouareau Regional Park
At the heart of Haute-Matawinie, this vast forested territory with more than 120 kilometres of multi-use trails offers hiking, climbing, and canoeing in a setting representative of the transition between farmland lowlands and the Canadian Shield.
Mont-Tremblant Resort
The Laurentians' highest skiable peak and eastern North America's number-one ski resort for more than twenty consecutive years, this four-season resort offers more than 100 runs and a pedestrian village bustling with activity year-round.
Mont-Tremblant National Park
The largest and oldest national park in the Québec network, this territory of more than 1,500 km² spans three distinct sectors rich in lakes, rivers, and peaks, offering one of Québec's most popular canoe-camping experiences.
Sommet Saint-Sauveur and the Village of Saint-Sauveur
Québec's busiest close-to-home ski resort thanks to its proximity to Montréal, Saint-Sauveur turns into a lively water park each summer, while its neighbouring village remains one of the Laurentians' most popular dining and shopping destinations.
Village of Val-David
Known for its especially vibrant artistic community, this village on the P'tit Train du Nord linear park is full of art galleries, pottery studios, and public sculptures, with a bohemian atmosphere that makes it one of the region's most cherished stops.
Le P'tit Train du Nord Linear Park
Canada's longest linear park at 234 kilometres, this trail built on a former railway line crosses the entire Laurentian territory from Montréal's northern suburbs to Mont-Laurier, dotted with heritage stations converted into tourist rest stops.
Rivière-du-Nord Regional Park
Recognized for its exceptional heritage cultural landscape, this regional park along the Rivière du Nord in Saint-Jérôme offers hiking, kayaking, and wildlife watching in a preserved natural setting right next to the urban centre.
Oka National Park
Located just 35 minutes from Montréal, this park is home to one of Québec's largest heron colonies as well as the Oka Calvary, a Way of the Cross dating to 1742 and a historic structure unique in North America with its four oratories and three chapels.
Tremblant Colours Festival
Celebrating the riot of colour that marks Laurentian autumns, this annual event turns the Mont-Tremblant resort into a prime destination for admiring the blazing foliage from the panoramic gondola ride to the mountaintop.
Sainte-Adèle and Le Chantecler
One of the Laurentians' oldest resort destinations, Sainte-Adèle is home to Le Chantecler, an iconic resort hotel founded in the early 20th century, plus a particularly popular stretch of the P'tit Train du Nord linear park along Lac Rond.
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts and Lac des Sables
Nicknamed the pearl of the Laurentians, this lakeside town on Lac des Sables offers narrated cruises, a municipal beach, and a heritage trail highlighting the distinctive architecture developed during the early-20th-century tourism golden age.
Fort Chambly National Historic Site
Built of stone in 1711 at the foot of the Richelieu rapids, after three successive wooden forts, this fortification was a pillar of New France's defence against British invasions coming from Lake Champlain.
Chambly Canal National Historic Site
North America's first fortified lock structure and a direct ancestor of the St. Lawrence Seaway, this 20 km canal with nine locks links Chambly to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, bypassing the river's historic rapids.
Maison nationale des Patriotes
Québec's only museum entirely devoted to the history of the 1837–1838 Patriotes, this designated historic house stands in the very village where the insurgents won their sole victory against the British army, making it a symbol of the cradle of Canadian democracy.
Gault Nature Reserve (Mont Saint-Hilaire)
Owned by McGill University since 1958 and Canada's first UNESCO-designated World Biosphere Reserve in 1978, this reserve protects more than 1,000 hectares of old-growth forest home to 500-year-old cedars and more than 185 bird species.
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park
An archipelago of five small islands right in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, just minutes from downtown Montréal, this park, reachable by river shuttle, combines wildlife channels, archaeological remains, and the site of one of Québec's earliest, now-vanished amusement parks.
Granby Zoo
Québec's largest zoological garden since its founding in 1953, this three-in-one complex combining a wildlife park, the Amazoo water park, and an amusement park showcases nearly 1,500 animals representing close to 200 species.
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu International Balloon Festival
Canada's largest hot-air balloon tourism event, this ten-day annual gathering at the height of summer turns the sky over the Richelieu Valley into a mosaic of colour, accompanied by shows, fireworks, and family entertainment.
Brome-Missisquoi and Richelieu Valley Wine Route
A network of vineyards, cideries, orchards, and chocolate makers spread along marked agritourism circuits, this gourmet route builds on Montérégie's historic farming vocation to offer a discovery of local terroirs through tastings and bucolic landscapes.
Old Boucherville and Seigneurial Heritage
Founded in 1667 at the initiative of Pierre Boucher, one of the oldest village cores on the south shore of the St. Lawrence preserves a remarkable seigneurial architecture, a direct witness to the early settlement of this part of the Montérégie territory.
Québec City–Lévis Ferry
Linking Old Québec to Lévis's Quai Paquet for generations, this ferry offers one of the most spectacular perspectives on the capital, gliding right past the Château Frontenac and the fortifications of Old Québec.
Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Park
An urban recreational jewel in Lévis, this park showcases spectacular 35-metre-high falls, crossable via a 113-metre suspension footbridge towering 23 metres above the Chaudière River.
Musée de la sculpture sur bois
North America's most prestigious museum and interpretation centre devoted to wood carving, this institution, marking its fiftieth anniversary, displays more than 250 works tracing the artistic legacy of the legendary Bourgault brothers.
Domaine Médard-Bourgault
A home that truly belonged to sculptor Médard Bourgault, this house-museum holds nearly 260 works created by the artist himself as well as by his children, brothers, students, and fellow artisans, forming an intimate testimony to the passing down of a family craft.
Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site
A former quarantine station where thousands of Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine perished in the 19th century, this commemorative site, reachable by cruise from Berthier-sur-Mer, keeps alive the moving memory of this migratory tragedy through a memorial and a Celtic cross.
Isle-aux-Grues
The only year-round inhabited island of the archipelago bearing its name, Isle-aux-Grues combines a renowned cheesemaking tradition, preserved farmland landscapes, and one of Québec's finest birdwatching spectacles during the mass migrations of snow geese.
Massif du Sud Regional Park
Benefiting from an exceptional microclimate that brings an average of 750 centimetres of snow each year, this resort offers 35 ski runs including 17 through the woods, complemented by a vast network of hiking trails leading to unique rock formations and a forest ropes course.
Parc des Appalaches
Spreading 140 kilometres of dog-friendly hiking trails through the mountainous foothills of southern Chaudière-Appalaches, this regional park offers canoeing, forest shelters, and the climb up Mont Sugar Loaf, the territory's highest point.
Beauce Orchard and Agritourism Trail
Building on Beauce's centuries-old farming tradition, this themed circuit links orchards, cideries, distilleries, and maple groves offering a gourmet discovery of local terroir, rounded out by original experiences blending agriculture and family entertainment.
Village québécois d'antan
Québec's first historic-tourism site of its kind, designed in 1977, this reconstructed village of more than 70 authentic buildings from the 1810s to the 1930s offers a costumed daytime immersion and, after dark, an original multimedia experience called the Parallel Village.
Parc Marie-Victorin
Created in 1985 in tribute to the father of modern Québec botany, a native of Kingsey Falls, this garden-museum stands out for its spectacular three-dimensional mosaiculture sculptures and its collection of 1,200 carnivorous plants, complemented since 2025 by a new museum devoted to Québec heritage.
Musée Laurier — Wilfrid-Laurier House National Historic Site
The personal residence of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the first French-Canadian to lead Canada's government, this elegant Italianate house, built in 1876, has housed since 1929 a museum devoted to the career of this statesman, the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history.
Lac Saint-Pierre World Biosphere Reserve
Designated a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, this vast floodplain, home to nearly a million birds, is North America's most important migratory stopover, welcoming up to 400,000 snow geese each spring.
Baie-du-Febvre Interpretation Centre
Founded in 1994 on the shore of Lac Saint-Pierre, this centre lets visitors discreetly watch, from a blind tunnel, the snow geese, Canada geese, and dabbling ducks that flood the floodplain, complemented by interpretive exhibits on this exceptional migratory phenomenon.
Cranberry Interpretation Centre
Opened in 1996 in Québec's cranberry capital, this seasonal centre welcomes visitors during the spectacular harvest period, from mid-September to mid-October, for a complete exploration of this little red fruit from cultivation to processing.
Grandes Coulées Regional Park
Set along the Rivière Noire in the Plessisville area, this regional park offers a network of gently graded trails, especially charming through its old-growth forest section, ideal for trout fishing, ropes courses, and wildlife watching.
La Grave Historic Site
The cradle of the archipelago's settlement, designated a historic site in 1983, this hamlet of traditional cedar-shingled buildings, once devoted to fishing and trade, today houses artisan boutiques, cafés, and the Vieux Treuil performance hall.
Musée de la Mer des Îles de la Madeleine
Overlooking the La Grave heritage site from Cap Gridley, this ethno-historical museum, founded in 1969, has spent more than half a century tracing the archipelago's maritime history and heritage, including the skeleton of a young sperm whale stranded in 2008.
Réserve naturelle des Demoiselles and the Anse-à-la-Cabane Lighthouse
Acquired and protected by the Société de conservation des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, these gently rounded hills overlook one of the archipelago's oldest lighthouses, all framed by the scenic Chemin du Bassin road.
Gros-Cap Park and Its Sea Caves
Located on a peninsula at the entrance to Plaisance Bay, this park features a network of caves and tunnels endlessly carved by wave action, explorable by sea kayak in an area especially rich in seabird life.
Borgot Lighthouse (L'Étang-du-Nord Lighthouse)
Standing atop Cap Hérissé after a cliff-lined coastal walk, this iconic L'Étang-du-Nord lighthouse offers one of the archipelago's most popular vantage points for watching the sunset over the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Entry Island (Île d'Entrée)
The only inhabited island of the archipelago not linked to the rest of the territory by land, this island of untouched nature rises to the summit of Big Hill, the highest point in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine at 174 metres, offering a 360-degree panorama over the whole archipelago.
Dune du Sud and Cap Alright Lighthouse
Known for its spectacular red sandstone cliffs concealing caves accessible at low tide, this iconic beach on Havre aux Maisons island is paired with the view from the Cap Alright lighthouse, one of the archipelago's most photographed vantage points.
Grande-Entrée, Québec's Lobster Capital
Designated Québec's lobster capital since 1994 and home to more than a hundred lobster boats, this fishing community offers, via the Île Boudreau trail, one of the archipelago's finest panoramas as well as a seal colony visible from shore.
Pointe-de-l'Est National Wildlife Area
A major migratory stopover home to a dune ecosystem unique in Québec, this national reserve with eight kilometres of interpretive trails protects rare bird species such as the piping plover and the Atlantic puffin, beside the seemingly endless Grande Échouerie beach.
La Cité de l'Or
Canada's only historic site offering a genuine underground descent into a former gold mine, this complex offers a day-as-a-miner experience 91 metres underground, complemented by a visit to the still-inhabited mining village of Bourlamaque.
Magasin général Dumulon
The township's first general store, founded in 1924 by the Dumulon family on the shore of Lac Osisko, this authentic store and post office comes back to life today through costumed characters who humorously recount the origins of Rouyn-Noranda's founding.
Refuge Pageau
The product of an exceptional relationship between the Pageau family and wild animals spanning more than 30 years, this refuge takes in, treats, and rehabilitates moose, wolves, bears, and birds of prey in distress, offering them permanent shelter when needed at the heart of the boreal forest.
Aiguebelle National Park
Located at the geographic heart of the quadrilateral formed by Val-d'Or, Amos, Rouyn-Noranda, and La Sarre, this park, created in 1985, protects the Abitibi clay belt and the Abijévis hills, right along the watershed divide between Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence.
Sainte-Thérèse-d'Avila Cathedral
North America's only Romano-Byzantine-style cathedral, this circular structure, built in 1922–1923, stands out for its copper-clad reinforced-concrete dome, its French stained glass from Rennes, and its Venetian mosaics, the fruit of a founding journey by settlers who arrived by canoe along the Harricana River.
Fort-Témiscamingue–Obadjiwan National Historic Site
A fur-trading post frequented by the Algonquin for centuries, this historic site on the shore of Lake Témiscamingue traces more than two centuries of French, then British, occupation, built around a strategic location at the crossroads of northern trade routes.
Abitibi-Témiscamingue Mineralogy Museum
The only museum of its kind in Québec, this institution offers an immersive family exhibition on the fascinating world of minerals and rocks hidden beneath the Earth's surface, highlighting the geological wealth that founded the region's mining economy.
Lake Témiscamingue and the Logging Route
A natural widening of the Ottawa River straddling the border between Québec and Ontario, this vast body of water shaped the regional forestry economy as early as the 19th century, its shores still home today to picturesque villages and four-season water activities.
Robert-Bourassa Generating Station
Formerly known as La Grande-2, this hydroelectric power station, buried more than 140 metres underground, is the world's largest underground power station and North America's largest single energy production site.
Radisson and the James Bay Interpretation Centre
The northernmost locality reachable via the Billy-Diamond Highway, this village offers an interpretation centre on the region's natural and human environments, as well as an exceptionally clear night sky ideal for watching the northern lights.
Cree Communities of James Bay
Spread along the eastern shore of James Bay, these millennia-old Cree communities offer, through guided boat excursions such as those run by Wiinipaakw Tours, an authentic immersion in Eeyou culture and the chance to observe belugas, polar bears, and seals in their natural habitat.
Lacs-Albanel-Mistassini-et-Waconichi Wildlife Reserve
Jointly managed and then fully delegated to the Cree Nation of Mistissini in 2017, this vast 16,400 km² reserve protects majestic Lake Mistassini, Québec's largest natural lake, renowned for its exceptional lake trout and northern pike catches.
Pingualuit National Park
Home to one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on the planet, formed 1.4 million years ago, this northernmost park in the Québec network protects a circular lake of exceptional clarity, nicknamed by the Inuit "the remarkable place where one comes to find oneself."
Tursujuq National Park
Québec's largest national park, this territory protects the Hudsonian cuestas and Lake Wiyâshâkimî, the province's second-largest natural lake, formed by a double meteorite impact roughly 287 million years ago.
Kuujjuarapik and Whapmagoostui
Nunavik's southernmost twin community, where an Inuit village and a Cree village coexist at the mouth of the Great Whale River, this site offers a rare chance to observe the distinct cohabitation of two Indigenous nations united by the 1975 James Bay Agreement.
Kuujjuaq and Ungava Bay
Nunavik's largest community and the region's unofficial administrative capital, this town on the Koksoak River serves as the essential gateway to the entire Québec Arctic territory, offering an authentic glimpse of contemporary Inuit life.
Cosmodôme
Canada's only museum institution entirely devoted to astronautics and space exploration, this interactive centre, created in 1994, offers virtual missions, 4D cinema, and the chance to admire one of only two moon rocks on display in Québec.
Parc de la Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
The largest protected wildlife area in the greater metropolitan region, this park, managed by the Éco-Nature organization, evokes the bayous of Louisiana with its marsh and swamp-forest landscape, offering exploration by canoe, kayak, or narrated cruise through its island archipelago.
Centre de la nature de Laval
Built on the site of a former quarry, this multi-hectare municipal park organized around an artificial lake combines paved walking trails, a botanical garden, a small children's farm, a pony carousel, and an astronomical observatory.
Maison André-Benjamin-Papineau
A French-Québécois-style residence built in 1820 for the cousin of Patriote leader Louis-Joseph Papineau, this restored and expanded farmhouse now presents an immersive permanent exhibition on 19th-century daily life in Laval, enriched with artifacts and interactive elements.
Île de la Visitation
A small island nestled at the confluence of the Rivière des Prairies, this nature park preserves the remains of a former seigneurial mill and offers a heritage and nature trail popular for hiking and riverside wildlife watching right in the heart of the city.
Île d'Orléans and Its Heritage Tour
Nicknamed the cradle of French America, this farming island, with a 67 km road loop facing Québec City, preserves one of the highest concentrations of pre-1850 rural houses in North America, surrounded by orchards, vineyards, and strawberry fields.
Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu
Perched on a cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence for more than 125 years, this iconic Charlevoix château hotel, next door to the Casino de Charlevoix, remains one of Québec's most prestigious and photographed properties.
Train de Charlevoix
Running along the St. Lawrence River for 125 kilometres between Québec City and La Malbaie, this rail cruise reveals through its panoramic windows the villages clinging to the cliffs of Charlevoix, offering a perspective unreachable by road.
Île aux Coudres
Named by Jacques Cartier himself in 1535 for the hazelnut trees growing there, this St. Lawrence River island, reachable by free ferry, preserves a strong tradition of artisanal shipbuilding, celebrated at its Musée des Voitures d'eau.
Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum
Home to Canada's most important railway collection, with more than 160 full-size vehicles, this Montérégie museum lets visitors ride aboard a vintage streetcar, a passenger train, and a miniature railway.
Casino de Montréal
Québec and Canada's largest casino, housed since 1993 in the former France and Québec pavilions from Expo 67 on Île Notre-Dame, this property welcomes more than six million visitors annually in a unique architectural setting.
Parc Safari
Québec's only wildlife park offering a drive-through safari among free-roaming African animals, this site, founded in 1972, today houses 500 animals from 75 different species, complemented by a water park and feline observation tunnels.
Chemin du Roy
North America's first carriage road, opened in 1737 between Montréal and Québec City, this historic route, now Route 138, remains a popular tourist itinerary linking riverside villages, seigneurial manors, and viewpoints over the St. Lawrence River.
Route des Navigateurs
Running along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River from the Lévis area all the way to Gaspésie, this scenic route reveals maritime villages, historic ferries, and exceptional estuary viewpoints, in direct continuation of Route 132.
Maison J.A. Vachon and Québec's Industrial Pastry Heritage
The birthplace of the Vachon family business, founded in 1923 by Joseph-Arcade and Rose-Anna Vachon, this site traces the history of this industrial bakery that became an icon of Québec snack treats, from the Jos Louis to the Ah Caramel!
Québec Wine Route
Bringing together nearly thirty vineyards spread mainly across Montérégie, the Eastern Townships, and the Québec City region, this themed circuit showcases the province's booming wine industry, the fruit of grape varieties adapted to its northern climate.