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2. Injured. 5. Perpetrator. Carl Girouard. On 31 October 2020, two people were stabbed to death and five others injured near the Parliament Building in the Old Quebec neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. [1] [2] [3] The perpetrator, 24-year-old Carl Girouard, was arrested immediately following the attack. [2] [3]
Facts. The first woman mayor of Quebec City was elected in 2005, 180 years after the creation of the city. Mayor Jean-Paul L'Allier has been the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, serving more than 16 years. The city was administered by a justice of the peace from 1836 to 1840. Party politics was introduced to city politics in the ...
Saint-Charles River Linear Park. The Parc linéaire des rivières Saint-Charles et du Berger (linear park of the Saint-Charles and Berger rivers) is a walking trail of 32 kilometres (20 mi) [2] running along the entire length of the river. Beginning in downtown Quebec, it follows the banks of the river to the north where the scenery becomes wilder.
Université TÉLUQ is a public French-language distance learning university, part of the Université du Québec system. Originally founded in 1972 as the Telé-université, Université du Québec commission to develop distance education courses, Université TÉLUQ is now a full university which offers programs in undergraduate and graduate studies.
1989. The Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec ("Our Lady of Quebec City"), located at 16, rue de Buade, Quebec City, Quebec, is the primatial church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec. [1] It is the oldest church in Canada and was the first church in Canada to be elevated to the rank of minor basilica, by Pope Pius IX in 1874.
This is a list of National Historic Sites ( French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in Quebec City, Quebec. There are 37 National Historic Sites in Quebec City and its enclaves, [1] of which seven are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). [2] The first National Historic Site to be designated in Quebec City was Fort ...
With a land area of 1,356,625.27 km 2 (523,795.95 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.0/km 2 (15.6/sq mi) in 2016. In 2021, Quebec's population had become 8,501,833. Quebec accounts for a little under 23% of the Canadian population. Quebec's demographic weight in Canada has been gradually decreasing since 1971 when, back then, it was 28% ...
