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Vancouver is on an inland body of water just like Seattle. Puget Sound feels a bit more landlocked than the Salish Sea, but you're not seeing Pacific Ocean surf on the shores of Vancouver. Anyway, both Seattle & Vancouver could be said as coastal being on bodies of salt water that support sea life. Quebec City, not so much. Its too far up river for that designation.
There are still tides in that portion of the St Lawrence
I was trying to look up elevation maps and it seems like Quebec City is still pretty much at sea level. Is the water brackish or is the flow from the St. Lawrence so strong at that point that it's still fresh water?
If Philadelphia and Baltimore are considered among the US East-Coast elite cities?
then so should Quebec City be seen as Coastal by its real ocean vessel Port too.
Quebec City's terminal will welcome ships of up to 13,000 TEUs.
Philadelphia's terminal can handle up to a ship of 14,000-TEUs.
Baltimore's terminals can handle over a ship of 14,000 TEUs
These cities all can handle even large Container Ocean Ships.
All have Bays, inlets or rivers to reach them. Philadelphia's is
on the Delaware river also. Quebec City just has a bit more distance
involved to the full ocean. These US ports have expanded and now Quebec
City plans to also for more large containers.
$775M Quebec City port project aims to win back market share amid shifting trade winds.
from link.
- Quebec can handle all of the large ships which are the trend.
- the advent of mega-ships has boosted the value of deep-water ports that can handle their larger hulls,
with the Port of New York and New Jersey dredging the harbour at a cost of US $2.1 billion in 2016 to reach
a depth on par with the Port of Quebec
Quebec City is fascinating, geographically. It’s located right at the confluence between the [edited: Gulf of] Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River. There’s really nowhere else like it on the continent. In a few hours you could be on a whale watching tour at the Parc Marin du Saguenay–Saint Laurent. Blue whales, minke whales, humpbacks, and belugas are known to inhabit the waters of this marine park. Quebec City is way further inland, but even so there have been sightings of harbour seals and harbour porpoises in the vicinity of Quebec City and actually even as far east as Montreal.
I know “coastal” has a bit of a different connotation in Canada than in the US, but interested to hear everyone’s thoughts.
Not really so I voted no.
But I do get your point, Quebec City is pretty close to the Gulf which leads to the ocean. But I still don't think it coastal like Halifax or St Johns.
Since this isn't comparing QC to any cities in the US, shouldn't this be in the Canada Forum, rather than the General US Forum? BTW, I love QC, but it didn't look at it as coastal, at all, when I was there.
It’s not a “Quebec City vs” thread but I wanted a comparison to relevant US (or Canadian or Mexican) cities to be part of the discussion, if that makes sense.
I guess I have a more liberal definition of coastal... I would consider both Seattle and Baltimore to be coastal. Quebec City is sort of on the cusp to me.
NoHyping brings up a good point about the port. Quebec City is both a cruise ship destination and point of embarkation, it appears.
I think Quebec’s closest analog in the US is New Orleans, and not just because of the French history, but because they are both near the coast, but built up river. That being said where is the boundary between the St. Lawrence river and gulf? Would everything after the Île d'Orléans be considered the gulf? Though I’ve seen the boundary on maps being Anticosti Island, but I personally think the river gets way to wide for that be geographically part of the river. And would imagine the water there being brackish, if not out right salty.
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