{"id":4384,"date":"2021-10-10T00:09:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T00:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2024-10-17T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:58:09","slug":"canada-halloween-in-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marieclaudearnott.com\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"Canada &#8211; Halloween in Qu\u00e9bec City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sailing ship has run aground in front of Qu\u00e9bec City Hall and a humongous spider crawls on the side of a nearby office building. In any season, the capital of la <em>belle province<\/em> shows off its historic landmarks, but in the Fall, Qu\u00e9bec revives its past with a Halloween twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ships have a lot to do with the history of the city built on a promontory of the St. Lawrence River. Perhaps that&#8217;s why our tour guide says the unusual Halloween ship is Samuel de Champlain\u2019s as if it is. \u201cHe founded the city in 1608, and because he came by ship, we like ships here!\u201d His enthusiasm reminds me that I do too: our family is about to get on a cruise ship in Qu\u00e9bec City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halloween or not, strolling the city begins with an orderly visit to the &#8216;beautiful house&#8217;\u2014Fairmont Le Ch\u00e2teau Frontenac\u2014but once we get on the Citadel built on Cape Diamond, our grandchildren run free, straddling canons, conquering tunnels, and leading a charge up the steps and mounds of the grounds. Fake skulls and other mortuary decors put them in an unrestrained treat or trick state of mind until a gentle carriage horse brings them to a standstill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At any time in Qu\u00e9bec City, a must-see destination is the Plains of Abraham\u2014by the name of the former landowner\u2014in Battlefields Park. What\u2019s more, in October, one of the notable gardens turns into a  Halloween venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Joan of Arc in Spirit<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps the Halloween spirits are getting to me, but the sunken garden seemed to be the result of having caved in under the might of the female equestrian warrior. I wonder why Joan of Arc is remembered in Qu\u00e9bec where she has nothing to do with its history. I can\u2019t think of any connection between Halloween\u2013a pagan festival\u2013and the divine voices she said she heard. But Halloween is anyone\u2019s game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turns out, according to the interpretive plaque affixed to the monument pedestal, a Francophile American couple commissioned it to sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and gifted it to the city, in 1930, as \u201ca tribute to the patriotism and courage of the heroes of 1759-1760.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I step down to the rectangular garden, in a French formal design combined with English-style flowerbeds and, as indicated, some 150 perennial and annual plants. Pumpkins brighten the \u2018haunted\u2019 grounds that seem to have put a happy spell on the children, with family in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Halloween Tales of Historic Truth<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am staring at a fake convict staring back behind the bars of his fake cell door. Fortunately, times have changed, and it\u2019s not eight o\u2019clock sharp, or we might have joined onlookers for his execution, his body dropping into a coffin below. Today, the former prison of the Plains of Abraham houses the soul-filling Qu\u00e9bec City Fine Arts Museum. But some say there are ghostly noises and shaky objects in there, even when it\u2019s not Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children walk on The <em>Widow\u2019s Walk<\/em>. They are unimpressed by the ghost dressed in black, but I am intrigued. The<em> Widow\u2019s Walk<\/em> is the name of a platform built between the roofs of the townhouses of the past. Was it a viewpoint for hopeful widows waiting for their seafarer husbands? A place where single women could enjoy the fresh air at night other than on the undignified streets? Or the access to throw sand into a chimney on fire? The interpretive boards by each such display leave it as a guessing game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another trickster is the bewitching <em>White Lady of Cape Diamond<\/em> as she blends with the white anemones around her. She is a reminder of hopeful prospectors, those deceived by the sparkling stones that turned out to be rock crystals and not diamonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next, a witch cooks a mysterious potion for the next Sabbath, a common witchcraft practice in medieval times. Tombstones reveal the names of doomed Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Halloween ignoring the reprieved ones. Meanwhile, phantoms dangle from elm trees while the children jump around the fake graves, sit on a seemingly unearthed coffin, and smile at a grinning skull. Halloween is said to come alive when the torches of guided tours glare in the darkness of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The History of Qu\u00e9bec<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halloween has somehow distracted me from the historic essence of Qu\u00e9bec, but I can\u2019t leave the city without brushing on a bit of history. At the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in 1759, James Wolfe\u2019s well-trained infantry defeated the Marquis de Montcalm\u2019s untrained militia, yet both leaders were killed. The English had won the battle on that ghastly day, but not the heart of the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois. Their resistance to integration is still evident today. At street intersections, vehicles stop at the <em>arr\u00eat<\/em> signs. Even France isn\u2019t as French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The colonial fortifications of Old Qu\u00e9bec\u2014A UNESCO Heritage Site\u2014are the only ramparts left in North America. I ponder 400 years of history as I look at the stone-built church of Notre-Dame-Des-Victoires and observe the whimsical elements of the mural at Place Royale. 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