GUIDED TOURS
GUIDED TOURS
Perfectly trilingual, I give private guided tours of the city and region in French, English and Spanish.
All the guided tours offered are customizable and can be adapted to customers’ interests.
My hourly rate is $90 CAD with a minimum of two hours. I strongly recommend tours of two and a half or three hours, allowing you to see more points of interest without having to rush from one place to another.
Depending on your interests, I can focus on certain themes: military history, diplomatic history, social history, cultural history, built heritage, religious heritage, French regime, British regime, Canadian period, political institutions, etc.
Perfectly trilingual, I give private guided tours of the city and region in French, English and Spanish.
All the guided tours offered are customizable and can be adapted to customers’ interests.
My hourly rate is $90 CAD with a minimum of two hours. I strongly recommend tours of two and a half or three hours, allowing you to see more points of interest without having to rush from one place to another.
Depending on your interests, I can focus on certain themes: military history, diplomatic history, social history, cultural history, built heritage, religious heritage, French regime, British regime, Canadian period, political institutions, etc.
As part of the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Historic District of Old Quebec is full of treasures from the past and present. In a typical two-hour tour, we will pass by Dufferin Terrace, Champlain Monument, Château Frontenac, Governors’ Park, Citadelle of Quebec, Jacquet House, the Ursuline Monastery, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, City Hall, Price Building, City Hall Square, Quebec Seminary, Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Montmorency Park, Monsignor de Laval Monument, the Breakneck Stairs, the Petit-Champlain District, Place Royale, Place de Paris and the Mural of Quebecers.
Cost of this tour: $180 CAD
Interested in this tour? Email me for more information or to book it.
As part of the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Historic District of Old Quebec is full of treasures from the past and present. In a typical three-hour tour, we will pass by the Parliament Building (National Assembly), Tourny Fountain, Citadelle of Quebec, Battlefields Park (Plains of Abraham), the Cross of Sacrifice, Churchill & Roosevelt Monument, Dufferin Terrace, Champlain Monument, Château Frontenac, Governors’ Park, Jacquet House, the Ursuline Monastery, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, City Hall, Price Building, City Hall Square, the Augustinian Monastery, the Latin Quarter, Quebec Seminary, Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Montmorency Park, Monsigneur de Laval Monument, Breakneck Stairs, the Petit-Champlain District, Place Royale, Place de Paris and the Mural of Quebecers.
Depending on the starting and ending points of the visit, it is also possible to visit part of the Old Port, including the old financial district of Saint-Pierre Street, Saint-Paul Street and its antique shops and art galleries, as well as the picturesque Sous-le-cap Street.
This tour is ideal for cruise ship visitors.
Cost of this tour: $270 CAD
Interested in this tour? Email me for more information or to book it.
Montcalm and Saint-Jean-Baptiste are, along with Parliament Hill, the Upper Town neighborhoods just west of the Old Town fortifications. Historically, Saint-Jean Baptiste was a working-class district and Montcalm reserved for the elite. Located next to each other, many elements of the past still linger, but today they are both bustling urban neighborhoods where people from all walks of life mingle. In the past few years, Montcalm has rebranded itself as the Arts District.
This visit will give you the pulse of Quebec City’s urban fabric and present the two neighborhoods’ architectural, social, and cultural richness that leaves no one indifferent. In a typical two-and-a-half hour tour, we will pass by Battlefields Park (Plains of Abraham), fine arts museum and its flagship fresco "Tribute to Rosa Luxembourg," Cartier Avenue and the surrounding streets, the bourgeois houses of Grande-Allée, Joan of Arc Garden, the Grand Théâtre de Québec, Parc de l'Amérique française, Place de l'Acadie, the former Jeffery Hale Hospital, the former Ohev Sholem Synagogue (now Théatre du Périscope), Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, Martello Tower 4, Saint-Jean Street and the surrounding streets, and the former St. Matthew’s Anglican Church (now the Claire-Martin library) and its historic cemetery.
Cost of this tour: $225 CAD
Interested in this tour? Email me for more information or to book it.
If today, Quebec has the lowest levels of religious practice in the Western world, why is its provincial capital is full of so many historic religious buildings? This tour shares the history of all of Quebec City’s religious communities from the glory days to the present day, when many religious buildings have been converted into theatres, public libraries, residential complex and more.
Information will be given on the historical religions and denominations of Quebec: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United Church, Baptist, Congregationalist, and Jewish.
In a typical three-hour tour, we will pass by the Quebec Seminary, Petit Séminaire, Laval University, Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Québec, the Episcopal Palace and Rectory, the former site of the College and Chapel of the Jesuits, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the former site of the Convent and Chapel of the Recollects Fathers, the Ursuline Monastery, St. Andrew’s Church, Maison de la littérature (formerly Wesley Methodist Church), Chalmers-Wesley United Church, Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the current Chapel of the Jesuits, the former Trinity Church, Bethany House (former residence of the Nuns of the Good Shepherd), the Augustinian Monastery, the former St. Patrick’s Church, the former Chapel of the Nuns of Charity, the former St. Matthew’s Church and Cemetery and Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church.
*We will only be going inside certain sites; most will be seen from the outside. This tour can be customizable.
Cost of this tour: $270 CAD
Interested in this tour? Email me for more information or to book it.
In the comfort of a luxury vehicle, the tour will take you through the streets of the Old Port, Old Quebec, and the Battlefields Park (Plains of Abraham) with the following stops possible: Dufferin Terrace, Parliament Building (National Assembly), panoramic governors’ kiosk (beginning in the Battlefields Park), Place Royale, and the Petit-Champlain District.
Cost of this tour for 2024 (including car, driver, and guide):
Sedan (2 passengers): $460 CAD
Minivan (5 passengers): $530 CAD
SUV (5 passengers): $610 CAD
Mercedes Sprinter/Ford Transit (8 passengers): $700 CAD
Interested in this tour? Email me for more information or to book it.
In the comfort of a luxury vehicle, the tour will take you through the streets of the Old Port, Old Quebec, and the Battlefields Park (Plains of Abraham) as well as the Montcalm and Saint-Jean Baptiste districts, with the following stops possible: Dufferin Terrace, Parliament Building (National Assembly), panoramic governors’ kiosk (Battlefields Park), Joan of Arc Garden, Grey Terrace, the provincial fine arts museum and its flagship fresco “Tribute to Rosa Luxembourg,” Des Braves Avenue, the second Battlefield Park (Parc des Braves), the Augustinian Monastery, Place Royale, and the Petit-Champlain District.
Cost of this tour for 2024 (including car, driver, and guide):
Sedan (2 passengers): $690 CAD
Minivan (5 passengers): $795 CAD
SUV (5 passengers): $915 CAD
Mercedes Sprinter/Ford Transit (8 passengers): $1,050 CAD
Interested in this tour? E-mail me for more information or to book it.
Want to visit the Montmorency Falls, the Beaupré Coast, or Orleans Island? Want to do something else unique? Contact me directly to customize your ideal visit in the Quebec City area.
Hourly rate for 2024 (including car, driver, and guide)
Sedan (2 passengers): $230 CAD
Minivan (5 passengers): $265 CAD
SUV (5 passengers): $305 CAD
Mercedes Sprinter/Ford Transit (8 passengers): $350 CAD