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For over 50 years (established in 1949) this French-speaking theater has had an outstanding reputation for the quality of its productions. Everything from classics to contemporary works to international tours.

A French theater company founded in 1968 that is committed to writing, staging and producing Québécois plays. It is guided by the passion of artistic director René-Richard Cyr.

This is Montréal’s most written about restaurant, which offers a ground-breaking, highly original menu. Reservations are a must.

The entire city turns out for this 65-km (40-mile) bicycle race.

Visually stunning, at the top of Hotel Delta Centre-Ville, and the Afro-Mediterranean buffet will surprise you with its originality.

The largest youth hockey tournament in the world.

Each February, the largest youth hockey tournament in the world brings over 100 teams from more than a dozen countries to face off against each other in Québec’s Colisée arena. More than 644 players have had professional hockey careers after playing in this tournament, including Wayne Gretzky. The building itself is called “the house Jean Béliveau built” by locals, referring to the ice hockey legend who once played junior hockey here.

Sieur de Laviolette founded this community in 1634, but the beautiful French Regime architecture that once graced the streets was ravaged by a monstrous fire that swept through the entire town in 1908. Only remnants of the original wall survive. Today the town is known as one of the main providers of pulp and paper in the world. Dominating the landscape is the Monastère des Ursulines, a lovely church built by Ursuline nuns, surrounded by a public park. Cafés, bistros and restaurants abound on rue des Forges.

Stepping into this perennial favorite is to taste Bretonne food in many of its traditional forms, from onion soup and frog’s legs to the assortment of tantalizing crêpes filled with seafood, sausage or, for dessert, with fruit.