Quebec County was a historic county in the province of Quebec, Canada. The county included the Quebec City metropolitan area and extended northwestward. The county seat was Loretteville.
to the west: the western limits of the parishes of Sainte-Foy, l'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Ambroise, and of the Seigniory of Saint-Gabriel and the prolongation thereof to the northern limit of the County
to the east: the southwestern line of the Seigniory of La Côte de Beaupré until it meets the southeastern line of the Township of Tewkesbury, then northeast to its eastern corner, then by its northeastern line to the rear thereof, and then by the prolongation of that line to the northern limit of the county
the municipalities of Limoilou, Saint-Dunstan-du-lac-Beauport, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-Ouest and St-Malo
in the banlieue of the City of Quebec: the parishes of Quebec,[a] Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Sacré-Cœur-de-Jésus, Saint-Roch-Nord and Saint-Sauveur-de-Québec
The municipalities constituting the suburban area surrounding Quebec City were withdrawn from the County at the beginning of 1970 to form the Communauté urbaine de Québec.
^being that part of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Québec lying outside the limits of the City of Quebec
^a seigniory lying north of Saint-Gabriel, measuring two leagues square,[4] created in 1698 but never settled or developed prior to the abolition of seigneurial tenure, and now forming part of the ZEC Batiscan-Neilson[5]
^Chassé, Sonia; Girard-Wallot, Rita; Wallot, Jean-Pierre (1988). "Neilson, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. VII (1836–1850) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
^Lussier, Mario (2012). "Le fief Hubert : la noble terre inatteignable"(PDF). Bulletin d'information (in French). 9 (1). Quebec: Société d’histoire de La Haute-Saint-Charles: 14–15. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
