Team Building Activities in Quebec City

By Michael Pinet.

Old Quebec is the only fortified city north of Mexico with its walls still standing, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where stone ramparts, narrow streets and the Château Frontenac all sit within a short walk of each other. Wildgoose brings that same sense of history to team building across Quebec City, from GPS treasure hunts through its walled streets to activities built for groups who’d rather stay inside.

Outdoors, teams take on a GPS challenge activity across areas like Old Quebec or Petit-Champlain, visiting a series of locations in whatever order they choose and unlocking trivia and photo challenges on the Wildgoose app as they go. Indoors, Level Up, Trading Table and Movie Studio run through the same app on your team’s own phones, nothing else needed, so a hotel meeting room or your own office turns into the activity just as easily as the cobblestones outside.

• Popular formats: GPS challenge activities (outdoor), Level Up, Trading Table & Movie Studio (indoor), virtual and hybrid
• Popular outdoor locations: Old Quebec, Petit-Champlain, Dufferin Terrace, Plains of Abraham and citywide
• Group sizes: 8 to 1,000+ people
• Duration: 60 minutes to 2 hours
• Best outdoor months: May to October (indoor activities run year-round, whatever the weather)

How a Team Building Activity in Quebec City Works

Outdoor, GPS challenge activities

Briefings happen together at the start, wherever suits you: your hotel, your office, or a spot we suggest. From there, teams split into groups of 4 to 6, download the Wildgoose app, and set off to find around 15 GPS locations scattered across the area, tackling them in whatever order they choose. That’s a deliberate part of the design: a group of 200 spreads out naturally across the city rather than everyone following each other, and choosing the smartest order to visit those locations becomes part of the challenge. Popular starting points like Dufferin Terrace, Place Royale and Petit-Champlain work well because they sit close to hotels and conference venues, but the locations themselves can be spread almost anywhere in the city.

If the forecast changes, our weatherproof guarantee means we can switch the whole group to Level Up indoors with as little as 24 hours’ notice, at no extra cost, whatever the weather does. Given how cold and snowy Quebec City winters get, this is one of the more useful parts of the guarantee for groups booking outside the summer months.

Indoor activities

Level Up, Trading Table and Movie Studio don’t need any of that. Everything runs through the same Wildgoose app, just switched from GPS challenges to activities built into the app itself, so there’s no kit to bring in and nothing to set up beyond your team’s own phones. Teams stay in one place, whether that’s a hotel meeting space, an office floor or a conference venue, and work through a sequence of live challenges together. It’s the same shared leaderboard and the same competitive pace as outdoors, just without the walking, which makes it a reliable choice through Quebec City’s colder months.

Multi-City & Hybrid

Multi-city activities link two or more in-person groups together, so a team in Quebec City and colleagues based in Montreal, Toronto or other regions can all take part in the same activity at the same time. Everyone joins one shared briefing over Zoom or Teams, then plays through their own city-based route or session, all feeding into a single combined leaderboard.

Hybrid activities work differently: they’re built around one in-person group, usually here in Quebec City, with individual colleagues joining remotely from home or while travelling. Remote participants join the briefing on a laptop, then use the Wildgoose app on their own phone alongside the group in the room, so everyone competes on the Wildgoose Platform’s shared leaderboard regardless of where they’re joining from.

Outdoor Meeting Points & Popular Areas

The GPS locations can go almost anywhere, but these are the areas that come up most often:

• Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec): the walled upper and lower towns, cobblestone streets and the Château Frontenac all within a short walk, one of the most distinctive settings in North America.
• Petit-Champlain: one of the oldest commercial districts on the continent, narrow and full of independent shops.
• Dufferin Terrace: a boardwalk with wide views over the St. Lawrence River, right beside the Château Frontenac.
• Plains of Abraham: open parkland with real historical weight, popular for larger groups needing more space.
• Place Royale: one of the oldest public squares in North America, dating back to the earliest days of the settlement.

Indoor Venues We Work With

• Conference hotels: Level Up, Trading Table and Movie Studio all run comfortably in a standard meeting room or ballroom, including hotels within the old city walls.
• The Centre des congrès de Québec and similar venues: well suited to a breakout session or evening activity alongside a scheduled conference program.
• Your own office: plenty of Quebec City workplaces run an indoor session directly onsite, with no external venue needed at all.

Works With Your Venue

Wildgoose activities in Quebec City sit alongside conferences, client days, graduate programs and company offsites. We run outdoors from hotels, office buildings and public spaces, and indoors from meeting rooms, venues like the Centre des congrès de Québec, or your own office.

You choose the activity and the venue; we handle the rest. There’s no kit to deliver and nothing left behind onsite, and groups scale easily, so a hybrid team spread across several offices can all take part in the same activity at once.

Why Quebec City Works So Well for Team Building

Few Canadian cities offer a setting as distinctive as Old Quebec: stone ramparts, centuries-old buildings and streets built long before cars, all packed into an area small enough to explore properly in an hour or two. That density means an outdoor route here covers genuinely unique ground rather than a generic downtown stretch, which tends to make the activity more memorable for visiting teams than for locals who see it every day. As the seat of Quebec’s provincial government, the city also regularly hosts public-sector conferences and delegations from across the province.

The indoor experience works just as well. Quebec City’s cluster of hotels within and around the old city walls mean Level Up, Trading Table or Movie Studio can run entirely indoors without needing to worry about the weather, which matters given how long and snowy Quebec City winters are. For anyone planning a conference, knowing the activity will go ahead whatever the forecast is often the deciding factor.

Popular Team Building Activities in Quebec City

Indoor

• Level Up
• Trading Table
• Movie Studio
• Conference breakout activities
• Team quizzes and trivia challenge shows
• Murder mystery experiences
• Virtual and hybrid team experiences

More indoor activities are in development and will be added here as they launch.

Outdoor

• GPS treasure hunts
• Outdoor team challenges

Quebec City Team Building FAQs

Do you offer indoor team building in Quebec City?

Yes. Level Up, Trading Table and Movie Studio all run indoors through the Wildgoose app on your team’s own phones, no GPS, no outdoor route and no extra equipment needed. They work in a hotel meeting room, a conference venue or your own office, any time of year.

Do all the teams follow the same route?

No. Everyone starts together at the same briefing, but each GPS challenge activity has around 15 locations to visit, and teams choose their own order to tackle them. That’s what makes it work for large groups too: a group of 200 spreads out naturally across the city rather than queuing behind each other, and picking the smartest order between locations becomes part of the challenge.

Is Quebec City too cold for outdoor team building in winter?

Between November and April we’d usually point you toward one of the indoor activities. And if a route is already booked and the forecast turns, our weatherproof guarantee lets us switch the group to Level Up indoors with as little as 24 hours’ notice, at no extra cost, whatever the weather does. Quebec City famously builds its Winter Carnival around the cold rather than avoiding it, but for a business activity, an indoor option is usually the more practical choice.

Can teams from other Canadian offices join a Quebec City activity remotely?

Yes. Multi-city and hybrid activities let colleagues in other provinces, or other countries, take part in the same activity and compete on the same leaderboard as the group in Quebec City.

Do you run team building activities in French?

Wildgoose delivers most of its activities in Quebec City in French, since the city is one of the most French-speaking in North America, but can also deliver in English for mixed or international groups. Mention your team’s language mix when you enquire and we’ll confirm the details for your Quebec City activity.

How many people can take part?

Anywhere from a small team of 8 to a large conference group, split into teams of 4 to 6 for the activity itself, indoors or outdoors.

How much does team building in Quebec City cost?

Wildgoose activities start from $22 CAD per person, with pricing depending on the activity, group size and duration. Adding a Remote Host is $500 CAD, and an Onsite Host is $1,400 CAD (subject to minimum spend). You can check live pricing and availability directly on the Wildgoose website.

About the authors

Michael Pinet and Ginny Bowers write Wildgoose’s Canadian location pages. Both are based in Canada and work with Wildgoose on a freelance basis, bringing local knowledge to these pages rather than a guess made from a head office overseas. Michael covers the French-speaking and bilingual cities; Ginny covers the English-speaking ones.

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