centre d'interpretation de la cote-de-beaupre

Centre d’interprétation de la Côte-de-Beaupré is the place to learn about the early First Nations history, and later European settlement of this region of Nouvelle France. We took a most informative and interesting 90-minute tour of this beautiful museum, the site of a former convent that was torched by the British in the late 1750s. The convent was rebuilt and used as a school until 1972. One old classroom has been restored, and we were able to relive our early school days looking at the old desks, textbooks, and pen-and-inkwells (and painful memories of learning the McLean style of writing using a straight pen, with nib, and those inkwells…). The basement of the centre has a viewing area of the archaeological dig of the first convent's original foundation.This is one attraction that is well worth a visit when in the Cote-de-Beaupre and Chateau-Richer area east of Québec City