The oldest stone church in Canada, built on Place Royale in 1688 on the foundations of Samuel de Champlain's original trading post. The church interior is modest but historically rich — the altar is shaped like a castle, and a model ship hangs suspended from the nave ceiling, an ex-voto offering from a merchant grateful for safe passage. The walls carry plaques recording the congregation's history across three and a half centuries.
The church was named for two French victories against English forces (1690 and 1711), in which attacking fleets were turned back from Québec without the city's defenders firing a shot — once by a storm, once by the fleet's commander losing his nerve. Both are in the category of outcomes determined more by weather than by military planning.