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The Quebec Remparts () are a Canadian junior ice hockey based in , Quebec. The team plays in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), and is named after the Ramparts of Quebec City (). There have been two franchises named the Quebec Remparts. The first edition played from 1969 to 1985; the current franchise has played since 1997. The current team plays at .


Original Remparts
The original Quebec Remparts team was founded in 1969 by a group of investors who purchased the assets of the junior team. www.remparts.qc.ca Some of the new owners included , and Gérard Bolduc. The Remparts took up residence in the same arena as the Aces in the Colisée de Québec. The Remparts were finalists for the George Richardson Memorial Trophy in 1969–70, and eastern Canadian champions in 1970–71. It was this team, which featured future Hockey Hall of Famer , that won a championship in 1971. The team also won the President's Cup five times. was the general manager of the Remparts from 1980 to 1985.

After the 1984–85 season, the team went into dormancy for three seasons before being resurrected. After returning to play, then-sponsored by "Le Collège Français", the team moved to to become the Longueuil Collège Français. The team played for three seasons before moving to Verdun in 1991 to become the Verdun Collège Français. The franchise ceased operations in 1994.


Revived Remparts
The current Remparts franchise was granted for the 1990–91 season and was known as the Beauport Harfangs, a suburb in the Quebec City metropolitan area. In 1997 the team moved to Quebec City, playing two seasons at on the campus of between 1997 and 1999. In 1999 the team moved into the Colisée de Québec.

On May 28, 2006, the Remparts won the , beating the 6–2 in the finals. Then-head coach became the seventh coach to win the Cup in his first year as head coach, and the first to do so since Claude Julien of the in 1997. It was also the first time in Memorial Cup history that the finals involved two teams from the QMJHL. Quebec also won the Cup without winning a League championship and without hosting the event, another first in Memorial Cup history.

On November 27, 2014, the Remparts were sold to for an estimated price between $20 million and $25 million. The Remparts were chosen to be the host of the 2015 Memorial Cup. They defeated the Rimouski Océanic in tie-breaker 5-2, but were eliminated by the in the semi-finals 9-3. The team moved to on September 12, 2015.

On June 4, 2023, the Remparts won the Memorial Cup, beating the Seattle Thunderbirds 5–0 in the championship game; head coach Patrick Roy had previously announced that this was his last year as head coach, thus completing the book end to his first year Cup win.


NHL alumni
Original Remparts
Michel Goulet, and Guy Lafleur have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Modern Remparts


Playoffs
L, 2–4,
L, 3–4, Rimouski
playoffs cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
W, 4–2, Halifax
Out the playoffs


See also
  • CHRC (AM), defunct radio station owned by the Remparts


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