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Where have you brought me? My 16-year-old wasn't saying it out loud, but her side-eye communicated her displeasure clearly. We were looking at a glass cabinet of 17th-century surgical implements. If looks could kill, my daughter’s eye-balling would have taken me out more swiftly than Killing Eve’s Villanelle. I’d sold our two nights in Québec City as a “spa stay”. Instead, we were looking at what could be medieval tools of torture. It wasn't quite fluffy robes on loungers by an infinity pool. But Le Monastère des Augustines is anything but a banal B&B.
Le Monastère des Augustines, part of the 1639-built Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, was a convent for centuries, but in 2015 reopened with a new mission. Not many city hotels like this lure you for mindfulness and ‘museotherapy.' Even fewer are the reincarnation of the first hospital in Canada. To explain: the Augustine Sisters, who provided free medical services on this site since the 17th century, essentially introduced public healthcare to Canada by dedicating their lives to caring for people. This cloister was gifted to the people of Québec as a charity-owned museum. It was a nice idea, but preserving the site required more revenue, so it was redesigned as a hotel open to all. You could even miss that a few sisters still live there, and a chapel is hidden away. Le Monastère’s legacy today is providing sanctuary for carers after much-needed R&R who get discounted stays—showing how our own hotel choices can also help subsidize supporting others.
Le Monastère des Augustines, part of a convent for centuries, is the remnant of Canada's first hospital.
Checked in via the light-filled contemporary glass atrium, we were given a tour of the original wooden-floored stone-walled wing. A lot has happened on this plot since three Augustinian nuns first arrived in 1639, but clues to its previous life come in the Christian iconography. Award-winning architects ABCP reincarnated the nuns’ quarters into bright, airy bedrooms. The simple old-meets-new adaptive design saw modern-minded mechanics enhance the bones of this 400-year-plus building with secret tunnels to conceal complex geothermal technology. Renewable energy now wiggles its way around via pipes cleverly hidden in the eaves. It’s a kinder and greener choice of accommodation.
Charismatic clues to Le Monastère's infirmary past come in artfully arranged exhibitions. Their Archive Centre gained UNESCO status in 2023 for
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