For over 150 years after the fall of Quebec to the British in 1759, the Province of Quebec was a poor, agrarian, patriarchal, clerical society. It wanted little more from the English Canadians than to ...

The Taking of Quebec continues at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Quebec City until Sept. 20. 1759-2009: the Battle of the Plains of Abraham continues at the Canadian War Museum ...

On Sept. 12, 1759, a quarter-millennium ago, British Gen. James Wolfe landed his army under the steep bluffs that hid the Plains of Abraham and the walls of Quebec.

On September 18, 1759, the British flag was raised near the top of Mountain Street in Quebec. General James Murray was appointed the military governor of Quebec after the French defeat. (As ...

On September 18, 1759, the British flag was raised near the top of Mountain Street in Quebec. General James Murray was appointed the military governor of Quebec after the French defeat. (As ...

Builders in the old part of the Canadian city of Quebec have unearthed a live shell fired by the British during a siege in 1759. They posed for photos with the large, 90kg (200lb) projectile ...