Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Catholic Church

This guide to Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Quebec City follows a shattered ship model, a wooden ex-voto colonists hung from a cathedral ceiling in gratitude for a safe Atlantic crossing aboard the warship Brezé in sixteen sixty-five. You'll hear how the model survived generations of prayer before British shelling in seventeen fifty-nine brought it crashing to the floor, and how this church earned its own name from two battles won against the odds. It also traces the ground beneath your feet back to Samuel de Champlain's original sixteen-oh-eight habitation.