Tailor Made Holidays in Québec, Canada: Introduction

As the largest French-speaking region outside France and Canada’s largest province, Québec offers a Gallic charm all of its own. This manifests itself in a great culinary heritage of sublime restaurants and delightful pavement cafés.

Québec City is North America’s only walled city and Montréal is a sleek and buzzing metropolis, but away from the urban centres Québec Province spreads out across the vast unvisited tracts of tundra on the shores of Hudson Bay to the pastoral and idyllic Eastern Townships. The Laurentian Mountains are the playground of the Québecois throughout the year, while the St. Lawrence River is the beating heart around which European settlers gained a foothold. On the south shore the Gaspé Peninsula’s mountains are draped in dense forests that grow down to the water’s edge. The north shore is home to the thriving arts scene, the charming villages of Charlevoix and the grand Saguenay Fjord. In the far north, expedition cruising departs from Kuujjuaq into the Arctic Circle to see polar bears, narwhal and Inuit culture while the Gulf of St. Lawrence is the seasonal home to blue, fin, humpback and beluga whales.

Québec offers perhaps the most complete mix of culture, scenery and wildlife of any of Canada’s provinces.

Selected Highlights

Our specialists have travelled the length and breadth of the country to research the best places to stay and things to do. Here they list a few of their favourite “unmissables”. Click here for more highlights

Go dog-sledding in the province of Québec

Picture yourself answering the call of the wild by gliding on a sled pulled by bright-eyed huskies as you mush them across Canada’s incredible snow...  [more]

Spend time with the blue whale

Drifting alongside the world’s largest animal can be a humbling experience. The blue whale, an elusive gentle giant that stretches over 27 metres and...  [more]

Take a ghost walk tour through the streets of old Montréal

A great thing to do in Montreal is a walking tour of Old Montreal, a warren of old crooked cobblestone lanes, rich in museums, shops and restaurants....  [more]