On July 3, 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City. Serving as a fortified fur-trading post on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, it became the first permanent French settlement in Canada and the capital of New France.
Champlain selected the location based on an Indigenous Algonquin word, kébec, which translates to "where the river narrows"
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