🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🏰 Québec City · Montréal · French Canada | 7 Days
🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🏰 Québec City · Montréal · French Canada | 7 Days
Description
Québec City · Montréal · French Canada
Old Québec UNESCO · Plains of Abraham · Montréal Jazz · Saint-Laurent · 7 Days
UNESCO Old City → Plains of Abraham
1759 Battlefield → Charlevoix
St Lawrence Valley → Montréal
Cultural Capital → Plateau-Mont-Royal
Arts & Food Quarter
Québec is the only walled city north of Mexico in North America — and the most European city on the continent. Founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, Old Québec City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its fortified walls, cobblestone streets, and 17th-century architecture intact after four centuries. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 — where the British defeated the French in a 15-minute engagement that changed the course of North American history — was fought on the cliffs above the St Lawrence River, just outside the city walls.
Montréal is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris — a city of festivals, food, jazz, and a cultural identity that is neither French nor English but distinctly Québécois. The city hosts the world-famous Montréal Jazz Festival (the largest jazz festival on earth), the Just for Laughs comedy festival, and a food scene that has produced some of the most celebrated chefs in North America.
Daylite Digital secures your accommodation across this route. All experiences, entry fees, and activities are arranged independently by the traveller and paid directly to local operators.
The Québécois · French Survival · A Nation Within a Nation
The Québécois are the descendants of approximately 10,000 French settlers who arrived in New France between 1608 and 1760 — and who, after the British conquest, chose to stay. Surrounded by an English-speaking continent, they maintained their language, their Catholic faith, their civil law, and their cultural identity through two and a half centuries of political pressure, assimilation attempts, and economic marginalisation. The Quiet Revolution of the 1960s transformed Québec from a conservative, church-dominated society into a modern, secular, culturally confident nation — producing a generation of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers who defined a distinctly Québécois identity.
The October Crisis of 1970 — when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act in response to FLQ kidnappings — and the two sovereignty referendums of 1980 and 1995 (the latter lost by less than 1%) are the defining political events of modern Québec. The language laws — Bill 101, passed in 1977 — made French the sole official language of Québec and transformed the province's cultural landscape. Today, Montréal is one of the most bilingual cities on earth — and one of the most creative, producing world-class circus arts (Cirque du Soleil was founded here), jazz, comedy, and cuisine.
The First Nations of Québec — the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), the Wendat (Huron), the Innu, the Cree, and the Inuit of Nunavik — were the original peoples of this territory, and their presence and land rights remain central to Québec's political and cultural life.
This expedition moves through the two great cities of French Canada — from the fortified walls of Old Québec to the jazz clubs of Montréal, from the Plains of Abraham to the Plateau-Mont-Royal, from poutine to smoked meat to the finest French-Canadian cuisine on the continent.
- 7 days · 6 nights accommodation (tier selected)
Journey Tier: Daily breakfast provided by hotel · Sovereign Tier: Breakfast and selected dinners provided by hotel
All experiences below are paid directly to local operators at point of service.
Optional services paid directly to Daylite Digital at time of booking.
Jean Lesage Airport · check in to your accommodation in Old Québec or Saint-Jean-Baptiste · evening walk through Old Québec · Château Frontenac · Dufferin Terrace · St Lawrence River views · first night in Québec City
Morning Old Québec · city walls walk · Rue du Trésor · Place Royale · Lower Town · Petit-Champlain · oldest commercial street in North America · afternoon Fortifications of Québec · Optional: guided tour — fee paid to operator · evening Rue Saint-Jean
Morning Plains of Abraham · Optional: Battlefields Park Museum — entry fee paid to operator · 1759 battle story · British conquest of New France · afternoon Montmorency Falls · Optional: gondola — fee paid to operator · evening Québécois cuisine — paid independently
Day trip to Charlevoix · St Lawrence River valley · Optional: whale watching boat tour — fee paid to operator · Baie-Saint-Paul · artists' colony · Charlevoix landscape · return Québec City · evening farewell poutine — paid independently
Morning train or drive to Montréal · check in to your accommodation in Plateau-Mont-Royal or Mile End · afternoon Plateau walk · street murals · independent cafés · evening Rue Saint-Laurent · Montréal food culture — paid independently
Morning Optional: Notre-Dame Basilica — entry fee paid to operator · Old Montréal · Old Port · afternoon Optional: Montréal Museum of Fine Arts — entry fee paid to operator · evening Jazz Festival outdoor stages (free) or ticketed show — fee paid to operator
Morning Mile End · Fairmount Bagel · Saint-Viateur Bagel · Montréal bagel culture — paid independently · final walk through Plateau · check out · travel to Montréal-Trudeau Airport independently · end of Québec · Montréal Expedition
Expedition
Saint-Jean-Baptiste or Plateau-Mont-Royal · no breakfast
- 6 nights · Saint-Jean-Baptiste or Plateau-Mont-Royal
Journey
Old Québec or Old Montréal premium · breakfast provided by hotel
- 6 nights · Old Québec or Old Montréal
- Daily breakfast — provided by hotel
Sovereign
Château Frontenac or Old Montréal luxury · breakfast and selected dinners provided by hotel
- 6 nights · Château Frontenac area or Old Montréal luxury
- Daily breakfast — provided by hotel
- Selected dinners — provided by hotel
Summer
Jazz Festival (July) · warm weather · outdoor terrasses · St Lawrence whale watching season
Autumn
Fall foliage · Charlevoix at its most dramatic · quieter crowds · excellent food season
Winter
Québec Winter Carnival · ice hotel · snowshoeing · the most dramatic season in Old Québec
Spring
Maple syrup season · sugar shacks · city awakening · lower rates before peak summer
Reserve Your Québec Expedition
From $1,950 per couple · 7 Days · Accommodation Included
Reserve Your Québec ExpeditionTerms & Conditions
- Pricing per couple sharing · accommodation included as per tier selected
- Expedition: no breakfast · Journey: breakfast provided by hotel · Sovereign: breakfast and selected dinners provided by hotel
- All activity, transport, entry, and guide fees are paid directly to local operators at point of service
- Daylite Digital does not act as a tour operator, transport provider, or travel agent
- International flights not included
- Daylite Ambassador services are optional and paid separately to Daylite Digital
- Minimum 30 days advance booking required
- Full payment required to confirm reservation
- Cancellation policy: 50% refund if cancelled 30+ days before departure
- Itinerary subject to minor adjustments based on site availability and local conditions