Canada Guide
Québec City
Jardin des Gouverneurs
Rue Haldimand, around the corner from the Musée d'Art Inuit, leads to the Jardin des Gouverneurs, whose wonderful prospect of the St Lawrence was once the exclusive privilege of the colonial governors who inhabited the Château St-Louis, upon whose foundations the Terrasse Dufferin was built. The garden's Wolfe– Montcalm obelisk monument, erected in 1828, is rare in paying tribute to the victor and the vanquished. Converted merchants' houses border this grandiose area, and the nearby streets are some of the most impressive in Vieux-Québec – check out rue de la Porte and the parallel rue des Grisons on the park's west side, which boasts some fine eighteenth-century homes.