Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral
Rebuilt fireproof after a nineteen-twenties fire whose culprit was never confirmed, with a crypt holding centuries of bishops and governors.
This guide to the Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral opens on a fire that tore through the nave just after midnight on December 22, 1922, destroying decades of Baillairgé family woodwork within the hour. You'll hear how frightened Catholics blamed threatening letters signed with Klan initials, tied to a wave of arson sweeping New England churches, and how, five years later, a small-time criminal in an Ohio prison confessed to setting this fire along with dozens of others he'd likely never seen. Investigators doubted him from the start, and the case was never closed. Stand before the calm stone front and consider how much of this building's history is still unresolved.
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