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Happy 400, Québec City!

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From CBC.ca

Festivities are underway Thursday to celebrate Quebec City's 400th anniversary.

French explorer Samuel de Champlain landed in what is now la vieille capitale on July 3, 1608.

To mark the historic occasion, Quebec is throwing what organizers are calling the biggest party on the continent.

More than 200,000 people are expected to attend various events, including the prime ministers of Canada, France, Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean.

A military parade with soldiers from the Valcartier base is expected to stir some controversy.

A busload of protesters from Montreal is heading towards the provincial capital to denounce Canada's mission in Afghanistan.

More than 2,000 people showed up for a free crêpe and chocolate breakfast Thursday morning, provided courtesy of Quebec City.

The party will wrap up with a giant concert and fireworks display in the evening.

Festivities are planned in other parts of the country including in Vancouver and St. Boniface, Man.

About 400 churches across Canada will ring their bells in celebration.
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Among other festivities planned over the summer are free open-air concerts by Céline Dion (not cool) and Paul McCartney (cool), an exhibition of artwork from the most famous museum of the french-speaking world (The Louvres), and a wide variety of other things.

Among other cities, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and St John, NEwfoundland and Labrador, will also be joining the celebrations - although the mayor of St John could not pass up the occasion to score a point or two in the half-century old debate of which of St John or Quebec is the oldest city in Canada.

As well as a host of debate whether this is the 400th anniversay of just Québec City ; of Québec City and therefore the entire province of Québec, or of Québec City and therefore the whole of Canada.
 
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Congratulations Québec City! I've been too "old Québec" quite a few times; it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.
 
As someone born in Montreal and now a U.S. citizen, congrats to Quebec City!
 
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