Languages: English, French
Specialties: Private tour, Walking tour, Driving tour, Food tour, Step-on, Military history, Women history, Architecture, Family-friendly
Territories: Old Québec, Island of Orléans, Côte-de-Beaupré, Montmorency Falls, Québec City Neighbourhoods
Group size: 1–150
Neil Schomaker is a Québec City tour guide, offering custom experiences to his clientele since 2012. Operating under the banner Québec and moi: Visites guidées de Québec, he brings to every tour not only his long-standing passion for history, but also the skill to make that history accessible to any and all audiences.
Neil offers the full gamut of guiding services - walking tours, bus tours, step-ons — all on a custom basis. Holding a master's degree in early modern French history, Neil also gives lectures on the history of Québec City to visiting travel and corporate groups.
Here are the latest articles you can read on the blog of Québec and moi.
Today is the final day of the 63rd edition of the Québec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. This prestigious event has been part of the Québec City calendar since 1960, when 28 teams, mostly from Canada, competed in the old arena in Victoria Park. The… Read more ↗
The English class that I give for the Adventure Tourism and Ecotourism Program at Collège Mérici has quickly become one of my favorite courses. The participants are smart, curious, enthusiastic, and fun. They are everything a teacher is looking for in a… Read more ↗
The leaves are at their peak once again and the cruise shippers are here in force. After two cancelled years, it is a joy to have them back, at least for this Québec City tour guide. Among the sites they see during their eight-hour stopover is… Read more ↗
I recently took a university group north of the city to the Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier. If you haven’t been there, you’re in for a treat! The park is a vast expanse of boreal forest managed by the provincial park service and enjoyed by hundreds of… Read more ↗
November 1st, 2019: The last time tourists stepped off a cruise ship to visit the cobbled, historic streets of the Vieille Capitale. Fast-forward 29 months. Fast-forward through the appearance of a new and unpredictable virus, and its many variants. Through… Read more ↗
Among the off-season contracts I accepted this year was a gig teaching English for adventure tourism and ecotourism. The Collège Mérici students who are taking the course are doing a one-year degree that prepares them to guide tourists in the great outdoors.… Read more ↗
For anyone who lives in the North, for anyone who knows long winters, there is a point in the middle of the month of February when thoughts of the warm season ahead of us start to feel justified and realistic. It is not that the weather has changed… Read more ↗
Élisabeth was married exactly 350 years ago today, on October 26, 1671. It was a Monday. Was it a cool and blustery day, as late-October days are wont to be in Québec? Or was it unseasonably warm? What did she wear? Was there a celebratory meal afterwards?… Read more ↗
In the weeks and months of confinement occasioned by the COVID pandemic, people found new ways of passing the time. It was an opportunity to take on all of those if-I-only-had-the-time projects that we never have the time for. For me, one of those pandemic… Read more ↗
The Lower Town of Old Québec, as compact as it is, has a surprising diversity of neighborhoods – neighborhoods that overlap and complement one another. It is the oldest part of town, containing architectural vestiges of the first European traders to settle… Read more ↗
