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Holy Trinity Cathedral, haunted church?
Designed by military officers William Robe and William Hall and built between 1800 and 1804, it was consecrated on August 28, 1804.
Maybe it's a haunted church...
The organ would sometimes play music without anyone sitting there and the ghost of a woman sometimes appears near the altar. It is said that during her visit in 1987, Queen Elizabeth II herself saw a specter of a woman near the organ, looking down the railing. Legend has it that it was the ghost of a nun named Iris Dillas, who died in 1830 after being buried ... alive.

Algonquian people had originally named the area Kébec, meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River narrows proximate to the promontory of Quebec and its Cape Diamant.
Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonguin language term. Quebec City is one of the oldest European cities in North America.
The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico.
This area was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Québec".

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Holy Trinity Cathedral, haunted church? <br /> Designed by military officers William Robe and William Hall and built between 1800 and 1804, it was consecrated on August 28, 1804.<br /> Maybe it's a haunted church...<br /> The organ would sometimes play music without anyone sitting there and the ghost of a woman sometimes appears near the altar. It is said that during her visit in 1987, Queen Elizabeth II herself saw a specter of a woman near the organ, looking down the railing. Legend has it that it was the ghost of a nun named Iris Dillas, who died in 1830 after being buried ... alive.<br /> <br /> Algonquian people had originally named the area Kébec, meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River narrows proximate to the promontory of Quebec and its Cape Diamant. <br /> Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonguin language term. Quebec City is one of the oldest European cities in North America. <br /> The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. <br /> This area was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Québec".