Le Grand Marché de Québec

This guide to Le Grand Marché de Québec in Quebec City follows the market's shaky path from 1910, when farmers sold produce on open dirt in the Saint-Roch district, exposed to rain and spring floods with no real building for fifteen years. You'll hear how a 1977 highway project forced it out, sending it into an abandoned train station and then a city park for three years, long before it settled into walls at the Old Port market in 1987. Look up at the roof as you walk the stalls, and consider how many homes this market has cycled through to get here.