Quebec City Ghost Quest: Self-Guided History Game in Old Town

Although only recently installed in Québec City, the Tourny Fountain has a fascinating history. Six copies of this work, designed by French sculptor Mathurin Moreau in 1853, were made, and it was exhibited at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

During the British Regime, the army closed the gate doors at night to restrict travel between the city and outlying areas, which disrupted trade and hampered the city's development. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

Saint-Louis at the corner of Rue du Corps-de-Garde, and what appears to be a large cannonball trapped in its gnarly roots. Calèche drivers slow their horse's gait to point it out to their passengers. Curious passers-by invariably stop and try to figure out how the cannonball could have gotten there, and when. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

Its chapel is where French general Louis-Joseph Montcalm was buried after he died in the 1759 battle that decided the fate of New France. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

In 1804 the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was the first Anglican church built outside Britain. Now its a National Historic Site of Canada (1989). The Cathedral designed in the neoclassic Palladian style, and it was modeled after the St Martin-in-the-field Church in Trafalgar. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The public square was then known as Grande Place, Grande Place de la Haute Ville, and Place du Marché. In 1900, the public square was renamed Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville following the construction of city hall, though it was also known as place Notre-Dame and place de la Basilique until the middle of the 20th century. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The Séminaire de Québec was a society of Catholic priests founded in 1663 by François de Laval, who would become the first bishop of Québec. He established this society to train priests, evangelize the Aboriginals, and administer the parishes of the colony as a whole. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

This monument, created in honor of the founder of Québec City, a work by Paul Chevré, was inaugurated in 1898. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

He worked in several different styles, as represented by his five artistic periods. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

This is the precise location where Samuel de Champlain built the first permanent French settlement in the Americas. Erected in 1608, his first abitation was a fort, store, trading post, and residence all rolled into one. That's why Place Royal is considered the cradle of French North America. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

in Quebec City and home to the Parliament of Quebec, composed of the Lieutenant-Governor and the National Assembly. The building was designed by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché and was built from 1877 to 1886.

The building slopes downward as it was built on a hill and was once home to the Jesuit College (Jesuit Barracks) from the 1730s to 1878. The city hall was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984.

It acquired cathedral status in 1674 when it became the seat of the huge Diocese of Québec, and 200 years later, that of a basilica. Its history has been marked by shelling, fires, and multiple reconstructions and renovations.