Langues: Anglais, Français
Spécialités: Tour privé, Tour à pied, Tour avec véhicule, Tour épicurien, Step-on, Histoire militaire, Histoire des femmes, Architecture, Familial (family-friendly)
Territoires: Vieux-Québec, Île d'Orléans, Côte-de-Beaupré, Chutes Montmorency, Quartiers de Québec
Taille de groupe: 1–150
Neil Schomaker est guide touristique à Québec et propose des expériences sur mesure à sa clientèle depuis 2012. Œuvrant sous la bannière Québec et moi : Visites guidées de Québec, il apporte à chaque visite non seulement sa passion de longue date pour l’histoire, mais aussi le talent de rendre cette histoire accessible à tous les publics.
Neil offre toute la gamme des services de guidage — visites à pied, visites en autobus, accompagnement à bord (step-on) — entièrement personnalisés. Titulaire d’une maîtrise en histoire de la France moderne, il donne également des conférences sur l’histoire de la ville de Québec à des groupes touristiques et corporatifs en visite.
Voici les derniers articles publiés sur le blogue de 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… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
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.… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
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?… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
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… Lire davantage ↗
