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Brand / Publisher: Province de Québec Service du Tourisme / Tourist Branch.
Item: Vintage official folding highway and tourist road map brochure for the Province of Quebec, titled Carte de la Province de Québec / Map of the Province of Quebec and La Province de Québec on the covers.
Country: Canada. Country of origin: Canada.
Format: Large double-sided color paper sheet designed to fold to a tall brochure; the cover panels feature an illustrated rural Quebec village scene and a decorative checkerboard Quebec title design with fleur-de-lis and regional icon imagery, along with the Service du Tourisme Tourist Branch imprint at 106, Grande-Allée, Quebec, Canada.
Primary side presents a detailed provincial highway road map labeled Province de Québec, showing main and secondary paved and gravel roads in red, rivers and lakes, shaded provincial parks and reserves, towns and cities including Montreal and Quebec City, a bilingual legend with road classifications and symbols, and a chart of mileage and distances between communities.
Insets on the main side include regional mapping for the Îles de la Madeleine and surrounding Gulf of St. Lawrence area together with a large mileage index table keyed to the map grid for planning automobile travel routes across the province.
Reverse side focuses on a shaded relief map of the entire Province de Québec with elevation ranges identified in a bilingual legend, surrounding provinces and states, and an illustrated compass rose, accompanied by French and English descriptive text about the province\'s geography, population, transportation, and resources.
Additional inset maps highlight the Capitale District de Québec and Métropole District de Montréal road networks, while extensive bilingual place-name indexes list towns and localities referenced on the main map for quick reference.
Classic official Quebec tourism highway map suitable for display, route planning reference, or addition to a collection of Quebec, St. Lawrence River, and Canadian travel and cartography ephemera.
