Canada Guide
Québec City
Grande-Allée
Sweeping out from Porte St-Louis and flanked by grand Victorian mansions, the tree-lined boulevard of Grande-Allée is proclaimed the city's equivalent of the Champs-Élysées, with its bustling restaurants, hotels and bars. Adjacent to the Loews Le Concorde hotel, Place Montcalm has a monument to Montcalm and a more recent statue of Charles de Gaulle, the French president who declared "Vive le Québec libre" in the 1960s, much to the separatists' delight. This area is now known as Parliament Hill, a new name that caused a lot of controversy, as Canada's Parliament area in Ottawa has the same title and anglophones thought it presumptuous of Québec City to label itself like a capital city.