4 Best Sights in Quebec, Canada

Not only does this tourist information center house various objects and photographs that trace Havre St. Pierre history, the building itself is a significant landmark. Built in 1943, it served as a general store named Labrador Stores. The center, right on the waterfront, also provides a slide show that tells more local stories.

Styled after the Empire State Building, this 17-story Art Deco structure was the city's first skyscraper when it was built in 1929. It served as headquarters of the Price Brothers Company, a lumber firm founded by Sir William Price, and today is an official residence of the premier of Québec, who uses the top two floors.

This stately stone house, actually three residences unified into one, was built in 1752 for the shipowner Jean-Baptiste Chevalier. Its location near the docks was highly sought after by import-export merchants, and later by innkeepers. The architecture is quintessential New France, with its distinctive mansard roof and striking scarlet color. Although the building is not open to visitors, its exterior is exceptionally well worth a look.

You can't buy fruits and vegetables in the Marché Bonsecours anymore, but you can view an exhibit; shop for local fashions, crafts, and souvenirs in the row of upscale boutiques that fill its main hall; lunch in one of the cafés or restaurants; or grab a craft beer. But the marché is best admired from the outside. Built in the 1840s as the city's main market, it is possibly the most beautifully proportioned neoclassical building in Montréal, with its six cast-iron Doric columns and two rows of meticulously even sash windows, all topped with a silvery dome. Perhaps the marché was too elegant to be just a farmers' market.