Now, ten years later, I'm back as a writer on assignment to find the meaning of Christmas in Québec City. Essentially, this entails eating a lot. My salad days as a musician may be over ...

If Quebec City is, as many claim, “the jewel of North America,” then its most sparkling facets are its historic Catholic sites. And it's the Christmas season that brings out the best in those.

Nestled in the heart of Old Quebec, the market sprawls across five sites, each one dressed up with lights, wooden kiosks, and all the festive trimmings that make European Christmas markets so dreamy.

The newspaper estimated at about 50 the total number of such masses planned across Quebec this Christmas Eve. Not long ago there would have been more than 500, and you would have had to arrive ...

The road is gritted and graded into neat corduroy, but would be lethal without snow tyres, which are mandatory in the winter for vehicles registered in Quebec. On Christmas Day, the temperature ...