Cap diamond
Cap Diamant is the name of a headland in the center of the Canadian city of Québec . It is formed by the St. Lawrence River in the east and south and by its tributary Rivière Saint-Charles in the north. Cap Diamant is also the eastern end of the Colline de Québec , a high plateau on which the upper part of the old town of Québec is located.
The French navigator Jacques Cartier found in 1541 during his third expedition to North America on the steep slopes of Cap Diamant glittering stones he for diamonds held. He took samples to France to have them examined. There they turned out to be worthless quartz . This gave rise to the French proverb Faux comme un diamant du Canada ("false like a diamond from Canada").
In 1759, British troops, under the command of James Wolfe, climbed Cap Diamant towards the Plains of Abraham to take the city .
Web links
- Cap Diamant , Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 71 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ W.