Esplanade Park — Attraction in Quebec

A park of contentment holding reminiscences of past contestations, as revealed by various political and war commemorations. In a sliver of the park running parallel to the Rue Saint-Louis stands a bold monument in Imperial style commemorating the dead who fought in the Boer War. This was a war not supported by the Canadian public (as elsewhere in the Empire, such as Australia), and in the end only volunteers joined the Empire's forces. Eleven did not return alive, and their names are written on a bronze plaque attached to the plinth. Atop the plinth is a bronze statue of a soldier holding a flowing flag. It was unveiled on 15 August 1905 in the presence of Lord Grey, Governor-General of Canada. Distant in time, distant in purpose, a disaster in...

I was trying to find a spot to rest in the middle of the village, and I found this parc. It's not as awesome as other parcs in the sourrounding, but it was ok. I liked the infrastructure of the buildings across the street. Very close, there is a laundry and some pretty interesting monuments. In the photo you will see the monument to colonialism, I did not catch it but there is a graffiti where someone wrote a complaint about it, regarding the englis colonialism... well, this is history live because this new trend of vandalise monuments is very recent. Anyways you can go visit the fortified village which is near to this point. But attention, you have to...

Maybe not a reflection of the park itself, but we tried to park there today. We wanted to walk around old quebec. The parking machine wasn't working. There were signs warning of being towed if you didn't pay. Even the qr code wouldn't take us to a page that could help. It's hard enough for English speaking tourists to figure this stuff out. We are only here for one night then heading out east, so we didn't want to take the chance of being towed. Thanks for...