History
Habitation de Québec is the archaeological site of the interconnected buildings Samuel de Champlain established in 1608 when he founded Québec, on ground now occupied by Place Royale in Vieux-Québec within Quebec City’s La Cité-Limoilou. Standing near the site of Stadacona, the abandoned First Nations village visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535, it served both as a fort and as living quarters. As the practical core of the new colony in New France, it was central to Québec’s beginning and to the earliest phase of permanent French settlement there.
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