The Early History of the City of Quebec
Quebec City is old, perhaps ancient by north American standards; only a handful of in the Western hemisphere are as old or older. Quebec City is also the only city north of Mexico that still maintains its original fortified walls.
The eminent French explorer Jacques Cartier visited the site in 1535 and built a fortification, he and his men remained through the following winter, before returning to France during the spring of 1536. Five years later (1541) he returned with a larger fleet of ships and a group of settlers to establish a permanent settlement, but that colony lasted less than a year due to endemic disease, the harsh weather conditions and the now hostile natives.
The first European supernatural to arrive in Quebec was neither a vampire nor a demon, but a revenant by the name of Giordano Ducheski. The Ducheski revenant family had been servants of the vampiric thaumaturges of Clan Tremere since the conclusion of the so called Omen War. Giordano had been dispatched by Anabelle Lastrange to join Cartier on his journey to explore the new world; his mission was to map those areas of the New World that Cartier was exploring and establish a chantry upon the most auspicious geomantic site he could find. Stadacona was the name the local Iroquois gave to their village
Europeans would not return to the site of modern Quebec for another sixty-six years. On July 3, 1608 the City of Quebec was officially founded by another famous French explorer Samuel de Champlain on the abandoned site of a St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona.
