Name: Quebec City | Birthplace of French Canada
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I don't know where Alex went, but I think he just went off and joined the army.

Right now it is a beautiful morning in Jacques Cartier park in Quebec and we have an awesome day lined up.

We're going to be exploring the history, the culture of Quebec and the whole region.

But first things first, we're going to be doing a little bit of old school transportation, the original way of getting around these parts by canoe.

All right, so this is how it's going to work.

We're going to be dividing into two different canoes so we can cover as much as possible.

I'm B Roll, I'm with Steven with Steve and Mark is with Lauren.

Probability of flipping the canoe above or below 50%.

So the Jacques Cartier park is actually surrounded by the Laurentian nature reserves, which when added up is actually around the same size Belgium, which is pretty insane to fathom.

You get this beautiful U shaped valley over hundreds of thousands of years.

During the last ice age, this valley would have been filled with a giant glacier.

And as that glacier melted away when the ice age was ending, it chafed up against the rock and basically whittled it down to this really nice, beautiful U shaped valley as we're surrounded by pine trees and spruce trees and it's just a really, really gorgeous place to be.

The river is named for Jacques Cartier, who was a French explorer who charted these waters over 400 years ago.

French presence here in Quebec was originally about fur trading.

And the French merchants that set up shop in Quebec City and Montreal would meet with the first nations tribes and trade furs.

And so this, this area here, this river became like a trading highway, a road of commerce where the first nations tribes would bring the pelts down to the river and then on canoes they would transport them to the French merchants in Quebec City and onwards to Europe, where Canadian French furs were fetching enormous prices in the major cities of Europe.

Well, we just pulled over on the side of the river here because there's a fairly large set of rapids and we're contemplating whether or not we're going to do a portage.

A portage is when you pick up your canoe, carry it around the rapids.

But portage is kind of a pain in the ass.

So I think we're just Gonna cross our fingers, hope for the best, and

Then we hit a rock and it kind of threw us off a little bit.

And we went in the water, and next thing we were just floating down the river.

You might recognize this plaza, the Place Royale, from one of Leo DiCaprio's best films ever.

But he was a fur trapper, French fur trapper in that one.

This plaza was the final scene in Catch Me if youf can, when Tom Hanks eventually pins down Leo in France.

So they basically used, as you can see, this church, Notre Dame des Victoriers, which was the church covered in snow in the final scene of Catch Me if youf Can.

If you like that film, if you like Leo's films, drop a little comment, Let us know which one's your favorite.

Okay, so now we're walking through the Petit Champlain.

This is what used to be right on the waterfront.

Despite the rough beginnings of the colony, it actually started to flourish through the fur trade, became very wealthy and very strategic.

And this area was right on the waterfront where the ships were loaded up to take the to Europe.

It's actually we're here during a tall ship convention, so there's tons of historic ships and you kind of get the feeling of what it was like during those times.

But all that changed in the 1700s when the British challenged the French for control of North America.

So to learn more about that history, we're going to take the funicular up to the walled city.

Standing in front of the hotel Chateau Frontenac on the fortifications.

And as you may or may not know, Quebec City is the only fortified city in the Americas north of Mexico City.

So to get a better lay of the land, we're going to be going inside the fortifications, places where the public are not usually allowed.

And we're going to be taking all of you with us.

So in 1759, we have the Seven Years War, which is basically Britain and France fighting each other all around the world for domination.

The battle reached here in 1759 when the entire city was put under siege by the British.

There were 13,000 cannonballs launched at this fortress.

And the decisive battle was fought just Outside here on the Plains of Abraham, the British won.

Quebec switched into British hands and became part of the colony of Canada.

Our exploration of Quebec's history and culture is taking us here to the Hotel Musee du Prince, the Hotel Museum of First Nations.

This place started off as a museum and then evolved into a hotel and a restaurant that bases all recipes off indigenous ingredients and traditions.

We're going to be staying the night in a traditional longhouse, but

first things first, we're going to go meet up with Yoland, who is the curator of the museum, a storyteller, and

We were a group of survivors of around 3 to 500 people who came in the area because we had been killed by the illness that came from overseas, because people that came from overseas had virus on them for which we were not immune.

And more than 66 persons talking about more than 20,000 people of my nation died.

I began to understand that the language is very, very important because this is how my ancestors understand the world around them, the mythology.

Mythology also is really important because the mythology are bringing all the basic value.

Love, respect, sharing every basic value that are necessary to survive in our world.

Now it's important to go back to learn about it and offer it to the next generation.

This is like every boy's childhood dream of, like, an epic tree house, except this is real.

Look at the, like level of, like, technology.

Using all natural materials, this longhouse can sleep up to 24 people.

The beds are built in a very similar way that they would have been.

I have to say I have been very much impressed by this place.

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