Every year, for nine days of magic and colour, the Haut-Richelieu sky is taken over by close to 100 hot air balloons during the International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. The Festival was recognized as a gold prize winner during the Quebec Tourism Awards Gala (Grands Prix du tourisme québécois) in 2010.
Parc Safari is a zoo in Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada, and is one of the region's major tourist attractions; that has both African & Asian species of elephant.
Fort Lennox is a fort erected at Île-aux-Noix in the Richelieu River in Quebec, between 1819 and 1829, to protect the colony from an American invasion. Today it is a national historic site administered by Parks Canada.
The Granby Zoo is a Canadian zoological park located in Quebec, in Granby. It is one of the most important zoological parks in Quebec and Canada in terms of the number of species presented.