Tommy Byrne - Tour Guide & Historian

Name: Tommy Byrne - Tour Guide & Historian
Address: Québec, Quebec, QC, G1R2J1, CA
Telephone: +14189997096
Rating: 5

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Tommy Byrne - Tour Guide & Historian

My name is Tommy Byrne and I’m a licensed Quebec City tour guide specializing in private tours. No problem!
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Hi, my name is Tommy Byrne and I’m a licensed Quebec City tour guide specializing in private tours. Trained in history and international politics, I offer tours focusing on local history from the perspective of the last 5 centuries. Personalised visits: Whatever your interests may be, whether this is your first or fifth visit, I am the tour guide you need to introduce yourself to or rediscover Qué

bec City. Have you already visited the Historic District of Old Quebec, part of UNESCO’s World Heritage List? We can go off the beaten path to other neighborhoods and I’ll share other aspects of the city’s history with you, along with a multitude of anecdotes and fun facts.

06/12/2024

So far, all my reviews are 5 ⭐️, but this one is the 💣 ! Thank you so much!

05/07/2024

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of chatting for a good hour with Emmy Bois and Marie-André Tanguay from "3600 secondes d'histoire" on CHYZ FM. The interview is now online! (in French)

Le 17 avril dernier, Marie-André Tanguay a reçu Tommy Byrne, auteur de « Premio-Real dans la capitale : Voyage sentimental d’un aristocrate et diplomate espagnol à Québec au XIXe siècle ». Qui étai…

04/17/2024

It was a pleasure meeting all of you last week at the Quebec City International Book Fair! 📕 🖊️ 🎙️

Salon international du livre de Québec

04/13/2024

"Premier ouvrage sur le personnage de José Antonio de Lavalle, cet essai biographique de Tommy Byrne nous amène à la rencontre du 3e comte de Premio-Real et consul général d'Espagne pour le Dominion du Canada qui fut en poste à Québec entre 1874 et 1888."

https://www.journaldequebec. com/2024/04/11/quebec-une-ville-inspirante-pour-les-auteurs

04/13/2024

La ville de Québec et ses alentours inspirent les auteurs d’ici et d’ailleurs. Lisez ce qu’ils en disent!

04/04/2024

🎤📕🖊👉 Salon international du livre de Québec

04/02/2024

03/26/2024

The Historical Society of Quebec (Société historique de Québec) is celebrating “the Spring of Montcalm” with plenty of activities and conferences.

I have been offering guided tours of the Montcalm borough ever since I started guiding. I know the area quite well since I’m the fourth generation in my family to have decided to call it home.

https://www.tommybyrne.org/guided-tours/

One of the main reasons why the real estate market of this upscale borough is rather expensive today (at least for Quebec City!) is that in the early 1920s, every new building had to be worth at least 5 000$. On the most prestigious lane of the borough, Avenue des Braves, no duplexes were allowed, and houses had to cost at least 6 000$. In comparison, in the working-class borough of Saint-Jean-Baptiste bordering Montcalm to the north, new housing projects were built for roughly 2 500 – 3 000$.

Make sure not to miss out Montcalm on your next trip to Quebec City. Discrete British elegance a few minutes from the Old City district.

03/21/2024

If you understand French, you can hear me speak on a radio show based in Quebec City aired last night called the Spacecast. This 50 min. segment covers my professional background, my work as an historian and tour guide, and we finish talking about my book published last fall.

The segment starts at the second hour of the show.

https://radiox. com/podcast/le-spacecast-integral-du-20-03-2024/

03/06/2024

Je donnerai une conférence devant la Société d'histoire de Lévis le jeudi 14 mars à 19h. Venez découvrir la vie du comte de Premio-Real à Québec, mais également à Lévis, où il s'était fait construire une villa avec de luxuriants jardins orientaux!

I will give a talk to the Lévis Historical Society on Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. Come discover the life of the Count of Premio-Real in Quebec City, but also in Lévis, where he had a villa built with lush oriental gardens!

Les éditions du Septentrion

02/22/2024

Restoration of the iconic red roof of the Maison François-Jacquet-dit-Langevin, the “oldest house in Old Quebec”. First built with wood around 1677, it was rebuilt in 1690 with masonry walls. 🧱 🦺 🏗️

02/05/2024

You can now watch online the episode of La Face cachée about the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity - Cathédrale Holy Trinity. In this episode, I make a few interventions with the host and colleague historian Alex T. Lamarche.

https://matv. ca/quebec/mes-emissions/la-face-cachee/la-face-cachee-de-la-cathedrale-holy-trinity

12/20/2023

A great article on my book published in the pages of the Chronicle-Telegraph, North America’s Oldest Newpaper!

Les éditions du Septentrion

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Québec
Quebec, QC
G1R2J1

Telephone

+14189997096

Website

http://tommybyrne.ca/

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