Fédération Québécoise de Naturisme was founded in 1977 by Michel Vaïs, a Quebecois theatre critic, journalist, author, and naturist. It is the official representative of the International Naturist Federation (INF) for the province of Quebec and French-speaking Canada. The FQN shares its membership with the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) as the INF only recognizes one naturist organization per country. Together, the FQN and FCN form the FQN-FCN Union for joint membership in the INF.

The FQN's mission is to bring naturists together and promote the practice of naturism in Quebec. The federation has eight affiliated naturist centers, including La Pommerie naturist center, La vieille ferme, Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park, DSA naturist center, Les loisirs air-soleil naturist club, Oasis naturist center, East Haven Sun Club, and Les amis de la nature. Activities include swimming, volleyball, spa, indoor sports, restaurant meetings, yoga, board games, bowling, and virtual meetings organized during the pandemic. The headquarters is located at the Regroupement Loisir et Sport du Québec at the Olympic Park stadium in Montreal.

Henry Wemyss Feilden was born on October 6, 1838, in Newbridge, England.

He was a British Army officer, Arctic explorer, and naturalist. He was educated at Cheltenham College. After joining the Black Watch in 1857, he fought in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny and at the Taku Forts in China in 1860. In 1862, he volunteered for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (1861−1865). He then returned to the British Army, where he made captain in the Royal Artillery in 1874. He served in the First Boer War (1881) and the Second Boer War (1900). He was decorated for his service in India, China, and South Africa, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his services to Imperial Yeomanry in 1900. Feilden also collected information on the geology, flora, and fauna of newly explored areas, and served as naturalist on Sir George Nares' British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876 onboard Alert. In 1880, he settled in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. He joined the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society in 1880 and became its President in 1885. He contributed to Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and submitted scientific papers to The Zoologist and Ibis (the journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, to which he was elected in 1873). In 1895 and 1897, he participated in expeditions to Novaya Zemlya, Kolguyev, Spitsbergen, Lapland, and the Kara Sea. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

In 1864, he married Julia McCord (1837–1920). He died on June 8, 1921, in Sussex, England.