Quebec City is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549, 459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839, 311. It is the eleventh-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the second-largest city in the province after Montreal.
The Algonquian people had originally named the area
Kébec , an Algonquin word meaning ‘where the river narrows’, because the Saint Lawrence River narrows proximate to the promontory of Quebec and its Cape Diamant. Explorer
Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonquin name.
Samuel de Champlain (13 August 1567 – 25 December 1635) was a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean, and founded Quebec, and New France, on 3 July 1608. An important figure in Canadian history, Champlain created the first accurate coastal map during his explorations, and founded various colonial settlements.
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