Architecture of Quebec

The surroundings forced enough differences that a unique style developed, and the house of the New France farmer remains a symbol of French-Canadian nationalism.

The Upper Town was home to the fortress, Intendant's house, and churches, these structures were built of stone in imitation of the Baroque architecture then popular in France.

The Lower Town consisted of densely packed structures on narrow streets, and was the commercial centre and home to the workers.

Founded as a Roman Catholic French colony and nicknamed "the city of a hundred spires," Montréal is renowned for its churches.

This is one of the first cities located west of the Mississippi River and North of New Orleans in Louisiana, which would be transferred during its sale from Napoleon to the United States.

The most representative buildings of the period rely on poles of wood planted vertically in the ground while the traditional colonial American huts were consisted of assembled horizontally logs.

One of the most characteristic traditional houses of the city are the "poles in the earth" in which the walls made of wooden planks do not support the floor.

The ferry that crosses the Mississippi River is nicknamed ""the French Connection"" because of its link to other sites of the region's francophone past.