Quebec, the Glossary
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QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.[1]
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896 relations: Abenaki, Abenaki language, Abies balsamea, Abitibi County, Quebec, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Acadia, Acadians, Accordion, Acer rubrum, Acer saccharum, Acipenser oxyrinchus, Act of Union 1840, Activision, Acute accent, ADISQ, Administration (government), Administrative centre, Administrative law, Admiralty law, Aeronautics, Aerospace manufacturer, Agent-general, Alcoa, Alfred Pellan, Algonquian languages, Algonquian peoples, Algonquin language, Algonquin people, Aluminium foil, American black bear, American crow, American cuisine, American literary regionalism, American pickerel, American Revolution, American robin, Amtrak, An Option for Quebec, Ancient Roman architecture, Andragogy, Anticosti Island, April Fools' Day, Arabic, Arctic, Arctic char, Arctic fox, Armand Lavergne, Arthur Villeneuve, Articles of Capitulation of Montreal, Articles of Capitulation of Quebec, ... Expand index (846 more) »
- 1867 establishments in Canada
- Eastern Canada
- Populated places established in 1534
- Provinces and territories of Canada
- States and territories established in 1867
Abenaki
The Abenaki (Abenaki: Wαpánahki) are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.
Abenaki language
Abenaki (Eastern:, Western), also known as Wôbanakiak, is an endangered Eastern Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England.
See Quebec and Abenaki language
Abies balsamea
Abies balsamea or balsam fir is a North American fir, native to most of eastern and central Canada (Newfoundland west to central Alberta) and the northeastern United States (Minnesota east to Maine, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia).
Abitibi County, Quebec
Abitibi County was a historical county in southwestern Quebec.
See Quebec and Abitibi County, Quebec
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Abitibi-Témiscamingue is an administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario.
See Quebec and Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Acadia
Acadia (Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.
Acadians
The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
Acer rubrum
Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America.
Acer saccharum
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.
Acipenser oxyrinchus
Acipenser oxyrinchus is a species of sturgeon.
See Quebec and Acipenser oxyrinchus
Act of Union 1840
The British North America Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 35), also known as the Act of Union 1840, (Acte d’Union) was approved by Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, in Montreal.
See Quebec and Act of Union 1840
Activision
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California.
Acute accent
The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
ADISQ
ADISQ (Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la video; Québec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the independent music industry in Quebec.
See Quebec and ADISQ
Administration (government)
The term administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to the jurisdiction under which it operates.
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Administrative centre
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.
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Administrative law
Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government.
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Admiralty law
Admiralty law or maritime law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes.
Aeronautics
Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.
Aerospace manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft.
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Agent-general
An agent-general is the representative in cities abroad of the government of a Canadian province or an Australian state and, historically, also of a British colony in Jamaica, Nigeria, Canada, Malta, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand and subsequently, of a Nigerian region.
Alcoa
Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation.
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Alfred Pellan
Alfred Pellan (born Alfred Pelland; 16 May 1906 – 31 October 1988) was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting.
Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages (also Algonkian) are a subfamily of the Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group.
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Algonquian peoples
The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.
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Algonquin language
Algonquin (also spelled Algonkin; in Algonquin: Anicinàbemowin or Anishinàbemiwin) is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect.
See Quebec and Algonquin language
Algonquin people
The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada.
See Quebec and Algonquin people
Aluminium foil
Aluminium foil (or aluminum foil in American English; occasionally called tin foil) is aluminium prepared in thin metal leaves.
American black bear
The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.
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American crow
The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae.
American cuisine
American cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes prepared in the United States.
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American literary regionalism
American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term "local color", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.
See Quebec and American literary regionalism
American pickerel
The American pickerels are two subspecies of Esox americanus, a medium-sized species of North American freshwater predatory fish belonging to the pike family (genus Esox in family Esocidae of order Esociformes).
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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American robin
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family.
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.
An Option for Quebec
An Option for Quebec (French: Option Québec) is an essay by former Premier of Quebec René Lévesque published in 1968.
See Quebec and An Option for Quebec
Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Andragogy
Andragogy refers to methods and principles used in adult education.
Anticosti Island
Anticosti is an island, in L'Île-d'Anticosti (Municipality), Minganie Regional County Municipality, administrative region of Côte-Nord, Quebec province, Canada.
See Quebec and Anticosti Island
April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes.
See Quebec and April Fools' Day
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Arctic char
The Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic.
Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
Armand Lavergne
Armand Renaud Lavergne, or La Vergne (February 21, 1880 – March 5, 1935) was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure.
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Arthur Villeneuve
Arthur Villeneuve, (January 4, 1910, Chicoutimi, Quebec - May 24, 1990, Montreal, Quebec) was a Québécois painter and member of the Order of Canada.
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Articles of Capitulation of Montreal
The Articles of Capitulation of Montreal were agreed upon between the Governor General of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, and Major-General Jeffery Amherst on behalf of the French and British crowns.
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Articles of Capitulation of Quebec
The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec were agreed upon between Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, King's Lieutenant, Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, and General George Townshend on behalf of the French and British crowns during the Seven Years' War.
See Quebec and Articles of Capitulation of Quebec
Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie
The Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonies (APF) is an association of the parliaments of Francophone countries.
See Quebec and Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie
Atikamekw language
Atikamekw (endonym: Atikamekw Nehiromowin, literally "Atikamekw native language") is a variety of the Algonquian language Cree and the language of the Atikamekw people of southwestern Quebec, Canada.
See Quebec and Atikamekw language
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Atlantic cod
The Atlantic cod (cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family.
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Atlantic salmon
The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.
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Autonomism in Quebec
Quebec autonomism is the belief that Quebec should seek to gain more autonomy as a province, while remaining a part of the Canadian federation.
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Autoroutes of Quebec
The Quebec Autoroute System or le système d'autoroute au Québec is a network of freeways within the province of Quebec, Canada, operating under the same principle of controlled access as the Interstate Highway System in the United States and the 400-series highways in neighbouring Ontario.
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École nationale de cirque
The National Circus School (École nationale de cirque) is a professional circus school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Émile Nelligan
Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941) was a Canadian Symbolist poet from Montreal who wrote in French.
État québécois
The French term l'État québécois, literally translated, is "the Quebec State".
Île d'Orléans
Île d'Orléans (Island of Orleans) is an island located in the Saint Lawrence River about east of downtown Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Île-Royale (New France)
Île-Royale was a French colony in North America that existed from 1713 to 1763 as part of the wider colony of Acadia.
See Quebec and Île-Royale (New France)
Bald eagle
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.
Bank of Montreal
The Bank of Montreal (Banque de Montréal), abbreviated as BMO (pronounced), is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company.
See Quebec and Bank of Montreal
Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.
Bas-Saint-Laurent
The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec.
See Quebec and Bas-Saint-Laurent
Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré (Basilique Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré) is a basilica set along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, east of Quebec City, and one of the six national shrines of Canada.
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Basse-Côte-Nord
Basse-Côte-Nord Territory (French: Territoire de la Basse-Côte-Nord, meaning "lower north shore") was a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) in eastern Quebec, Canada.
See Quebec and Basse-Côte-Nord
Battle of Jumonville Glen
The Battle of Jumonville Glen, also known as the Jumonville affair, was the opening battle of the French and Indian War, fought on May 28, 1754, near present-day Hopwood and Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
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Battle of Restigouche
The Battle of Restigouche was a naval battle fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in the United States) on the Restigouche River between the British Royal Navy and the small flotilla of vessels of the French Navy, Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq militias.
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Battle of Saint-Charles
The Battle of Saint-Charles was fought on 25 November 1837 between the Government of Lower Canada, supported by the United Kingdom, and Patriote rebels.
See Quebec and Battle of Saint-Charles
Battle of Saint-Denis (1837)
The Battle of Saint-Denis was fought on November 23, 1837, between British colonial authorities under Lieutenant-Colonel Gore and Patriote rebels in Lower Canada as part of the Lower Canada Rebellion.
See Quebec and Battle of Saint-Denis (1837)
Battle of Saint-Eustache
The Battle of Saint-Eustache was a decisive battle in the Lower Canada Rebellion in which government forces defeated the principal remaining Patriotes camp at Saint-Eustache on December 14, 1837.
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Battle of Sainte-Foy
The Battle of Sainte-Foy (Bataille de Sainte-Foy) sometimes called the Battle of Quebec (Bataille du Quebec), was fought on April 28, 1760 near the British-held town of Quebec in the French province of Canada during the Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the United States).
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Battle of Signal Hill
The Battle of Signal Hill was fought on September 15, 1762, and was the last battle of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War.
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Battle of the Chateauguay
The Battle of the Chateauguay was an engagement of the War of 1812.
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe the North American theatre).
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Beaver Wars
The Beaver Wars (Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.
Behaviour Interactive
Behaviour Interactive Inc. (stylized as "bEHAVIOUR") is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal.
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Bell Textron
Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
Beluga whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Betula alleghaniensis
Betula alleghaniensis, the yellow birch, golden birch, or swamp birch, is a large tree and an important lumber species of birch native to northeastern North America.
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Betula papyrifera
Betula papyrifera (paper birch, also known as (American) white birch and canoe birch) is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America.
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Bibi et Geneviève
Bibi et Geneviève was a children's show made in Québec in the late 1980s through the early 1990s.
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Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
The ('National Library and Archives of Quebec') or BAnQ is a Quebec government agency which manages the province's legal deposit system, national archives, and national library.
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Black-capped chickadee
The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American passerine bird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests.
See Quebec and Black-capped chickadee
Bloc populaire
The italics, often shortened to the Bloc populaire or the Bloc, was a political party in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1942 to 1947.
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois (BQ;, "Quebecer Bloc") is a federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty.
Blue jay
The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America.
Blue whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale.
Board of education
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
See Quebec and Board of education
Bobcat
The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.
Bobino
Bobino at 20 rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse area of Paris (14th arrondissement), France, is a music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th century French music perform there.
Bogeyman
The bogeyman (also spelled or known as bogyman, bogy, bogey, and, in North American English, also boogeyman) is a mythical creature typically used to frighten children into good behavior.
Bombardier Aviation
Bombardier Aviation is a division of Bombardier Inc. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.
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Bombardier Inc.
Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian business jet manufacturer.
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Boreal forest of Canada
Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel.
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Brenda Milner
Brenda Milner (née Langford; born 15 July 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology.
Brent Crude
Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) Brent Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself.
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Quebec and British Columbia are provinces and territories of Canada.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
Brook trout
The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.
Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. Quebec and Brussels are french-speaking countries and territories.
Buddhism in Canada
Buddhism is among the smallest minority-religions in Canada, with a very slowly growing population in the country, partly the result of conversion, with only 4.6% of new immigrants identifying themselves as Buddhist.
See Quebec and Buddhism in Canada
Cabot Strait
Cabot Strait (détroit de Cabot) is in Atlantic Canada between Cape Ray, Newfoundland, and Cape North, Cape Breton Island.
CAE Inc.
CAE Inc. (formerly Canadian Aviation Electronics) is a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies, modelling technologies and training services to airlines, aircraft manufacturers, healthcare specialists, and defence customers.
Caillou
Caillou (stylized in lowercase) is an educational children's television series which aired on Teletoon (both English and French versions) with the first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997 until the fourth season.
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ; Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund) is an institutional investor that manages several public and parapublic pension plans and insurance programs in the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Canada (New France)
The colony of Canada was a French colony within the larger territory of New France.
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Canada East
Canada East (Canada-Est) was the northeastern portion of the Province of Canada.
Canada goose
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), sometimes called Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.
Canada–United States softwood lumber dispute
The Canada–U.S. softwood lumber dispute is one of the largest and most enduring trade disputes between both nations.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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Canadian Coast Guard
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.
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Canadian Confederation
Canadian Confederation (Confédération canadienne) was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867. Quebec and Canadian Confederation are 1867 establishments in Canada.
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Canadian dollar
The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.
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Canadian football, or simply football (in Canada), is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete on a field long and wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone.
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Canadian French
Canadian French (français canadien) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada.
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Canadian Grand Prix
The Canadian Grand Prix (Grand Prix du Canada) is an annual motor racing event held since 1961.
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Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.
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Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada.
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Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield (Bouclier canadien), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks.
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Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act.
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Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty
The Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, also known as the Elgin-Marcy Treaty (after its key negotiators, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and William L. Marcy), was a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that applied to British North America, including the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland Colony.
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Caniapiscau Reservoir
The Caniapiscau Reservoir is a reservoir on the upper Caniapiscau River in the Côte-Nord administrative region of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Canoe
A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.
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Capitale-Nationale
Capitale-Nationale (National Capital region) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec.
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Carignan-Salières Regiment
The Carignan-Salières Regiment was a 17th-century French military unit formed by the merging of two other regiments in 1659.
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Carya cordiformis
Carya cordiformis, the bitternut hickory, also called bitternut, yellowbud hickory, or swamp hickory, is a large pecan hickory with commercial stands located mostly north of the other pecan hickories.
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Case law
Case law, also used interchangeably with common law, is a law that is based on precedents, that is the judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law based on constitutions, statutes, or regulations.
Cathay
Cathay is a historical name for China that was used in Europe.
Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
The Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec ("Our Lady of Quebec City"), located at 16, rue de Buade, Quebec City, Quebec, is the primatial church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Church in Canada
The Catholic Church in Canada, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, and has a decentralised structure, meaning each diocesan bishop is autonomous but under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Catholic missions
Missionary work of the Catholic Church has often been undertaken outside the geographically defined parishes and dioceses by religious orders who have people and material resources to spare, and some of which specialized in missions.
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Cavalia
Cavalia is a company that specializes in the creation, production and touring of live equestrian shows.
Côte-Nord
Côte-Nord (Region 09) is an administrative region of Quebec, Canada. The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Tadoussac to the limits of Labrador, leaning against the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean to the west, the Côte-Nord penetrates deep into Northern Quebec.
CEGEP
A CEGEP (or; cégep,; also written CÉGEP and cegep) is a publicly funded college providing technical, academic, vocational or a mix of programs; they are exclusive to the province of Quebec's education system.
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Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.
Central Canada
Central Canada (Centre du Canada, sometimes the Central provinces) is a Canadian region consisting of Ontario and Quebec, the largest and most populous provinces of the country.
Centre-du-Québec
Centre-du-Québec (Central Quebec) is a region of Quebec, Canada.
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CFS Mont Apica
Canadian Forces Station Mont Apica (CFS Mont Apica) was a radar station of the Pinetree Line, located in Mont-Apica, Quebec, Canada, during the Cold War.
Charles Daudelin
Charles Daudelin, (October 1, 1920 – April 2, 2001) was a French Canadian pioneer in modern sculpture and painting.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
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Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Charles Lawrence (British Army officer)
Brigadier-General Charles Lawrence (14 December 1709 – 19 October 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, is perhaps best known for overseeing the Expulsion of the Acadians and settling the New England Planters in Nova Scotia.
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Charlottetown Accord
The Charlottetown Accord (Accord de Charlottetown) was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992.
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Charlottetown Conference
The Charlottetown Conference (A Conference to discuss the Confederation of Canada) was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, for representatives from colonies of British North America to discuss Canadian Confederation.
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Charter of the French Language
The Charter of the French Language (La charte de la langue française), also known as Bill 101 (Loi 101), is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government.
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Chasse-galerie
La Chasse-galerie, also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" or "The Flying Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt.
Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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Chipmunk
Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of Sciuridae, the squirrel family; specifically, they are ground squirrels (Marmotini).
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.
Cinema of Quebec
The history of cinema in Quebec started on June 27, 1896 when the Frenchman Louis Minier inaugurated the first movie projection in North America in a Montreal theatre room.
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Cirque Éloize
Cirque Éloize is a contemporary circus company founded in Montreal in 1993 by Jeannot Painchaud, Daniel Cyr, Claudette Morin, and Julie Hamelin.
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world.
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Civil Code of Lower Canada
The Civil Code of Lower Canada (Code civil du Bas-Canada) was a law that was in effect in Lower Canada on 1 August 1866 and remained in effect in Quebec until repealed and replaced by the Civil Code of Quebec on 1 January 1994.
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Civil Code of Quebec
The Civil Code of Quebec (CCQ, Code civil du Québec) is the civil code in force in the Canadian province of Quebec, which came into effect on January 1, 1994.
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Civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.
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Civil society
Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.
Clarity Act
The Clarity Act (Loi sur la clarté référendaire, known as Bill C-20 before it became law) is legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada that established the conditions under which the Government of Canada would enter into negotiations that might lead to secession following such a vote by one of the provinces.
Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
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Classification of municipalities in Quebec
The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec.
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Clergy
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.
Climate of the Arctic
The climate of the Arctic is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers.
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CMC Electronics
CMC Electronics Inc. (CMC Électronique) is a Canadian avionics manufacturer.
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Coat of arms of Quebec
The coat of arms of the province of Quebec (armoiries du Québec) was adopted by order-in-council of the Government of Quebec on 9 December 1939, replacing the arms assigned by royal warrant of Queen Victoria on 26 May 1868.
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Codification (law)
In law, codification is the process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a legal code, i.e. a codex (book) of law.
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Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and Linguistic Rights in Quebec
The Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and Linguistic Rights in Quebec was established under the Union Nationale government of Jean-Jacques Bertrand on December 9, 1968.
Common grackle
The common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) is a species of large icterid bird found in large numbers through much of North America.
Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
Common loon
The common loon or great northern diver (Gavia immer) is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds.
Common starling
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling in North America and simply as the starling in Great Britain and Ireland, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.
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Company of One Hundred Associates
The Company of One Hundred Associates (French: formally the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, or colloquially the Compagnie des Cent-Associés or Compagnie du Canada), or Company of New France, was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to administer and expand French colonies there.
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Conscription Crisis of 1917
The Conscription Crisis of 1917 (Crise de la conscription de 1917) was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I. It was mainly caused by disagreement on whether men should be conscripted to fight in the war, but also brought out many issues regarding relations between French Canadians and English Canadians.
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Conscription Crisis of 1944
The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis following the introduction of forced military service for men in Canada during World War II.
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Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec.
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Constitution Act, 1867
The Constitution Act, 1867 (Loi constitutionnelle de 1867),The Constitution Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Victoria (U.K.), c. 3, http://canlii.ca/t/ldsw retrieved on 2019-03-14. Quebec and constitution Act, 1867 are 1867 establishments in Canada.
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Constitution Act, 1982
The Constitution Act, 1982 (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982) is a part of the Constitution of Canada.
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Constitutional Act 1791
The Constitutional Act 1791 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which was passed during the reign of George III.
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Constitutional law
Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United States and Canada, the relationship between the central government and state, provincial, or territorial governments.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe.
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Continental Army
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
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Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.
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Continuing education
Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad list of post-secondary learning activities and programs.
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Cornelius Krieghoff
Cornelius David Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – March 5, 1872) was a Dutch-born Canadian-American painter of the 19th century.
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Cougar
The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.
Coureur des bois
A coureur des bois or coureur de bois (plural: coureurs de(s) bois) were independent entrepreneurial French Canadian traders who travelled in New France and the interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations peoples by exchanging various European items for furs.
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Court of Quebec
The Court of Quebec (Cour du Québec) is a court of first instance in the Province of Quebec, Canada.
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Coyote
The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.
Cree
The Cree (script, néhiyaw, nihithaw, etc.; Cri) are a North American Indigenous people.
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Cree language
Cree (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador.
Criminal Code (Canada)
The Criminal Code (Code criminel) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.
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Crown attorney
Crown attorneys or crown counsel (Procureur(e) de la Couronne, or, in Alberta and New Brunswick, crown prosecutors) are the prosecutors in the legal system of Canada.
Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Culture of Quebec
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec.
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Customary law
A legal custom is the established pattern of behavior within a particular social setting.
Dairy product
Dairy products or milk products, also known as lacticinia, are food products made from (or containing) milk.
Dakar
Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.
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Debt-to-GDP ratio
In economics, the debt-to-GDP ratio is the ratio between a country's government debt (measured in units of currency) and its gross domestic product (GDP) (measured in units of currency per year).
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Deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada
The Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada (Déclaration d'indépendance du Bas-Canada) was written in French by the patriot rebel Robert Nelson on February 22, 1838, while in exile in the United States, after the first rebellion of 1837.
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Defense pact
A defense pact (Commonwealth spelling: defence pact) is a type of treaty or military alliance in which the signatories promise to support each other militarily and to defend each other.
Department of Justice (Canada)
The Department of Justice (Ministère de la Justice) is a department of the Government of Canada that represents the Canadian government in legal matters.
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Desjardins Group
The Desjardins Group (Mouvement Desjardins) is a Canadian financial service cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions (caisses populaires) in North America.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Devil
A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.
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Dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be.
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Distinct society
Distinct society (in la société distincte) is a political term especially used during constitutional debate in Canada, in the second half of the 1980s and in the early 1990s, and present in the two failed constitutional amendments, the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord.
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District of Ungava
The District of Ungava was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories from 1895 to 1920, although it effectively ceased operation in 1912.
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Dogma
Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.
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Dominion of Newfoundland
Newfoundland was a British dominion in eastern North America, today the modern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Donald O. Hebb
Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning.
Donnacona
Chief Donnacona (died 1539 in France) was the chief of the St. Lawrence Iroquois village of Stadacona, located at the present site of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Double-crested cormorant
The double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) is a member of the cormorant family of water birds.
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Downtown Montreal
Downtown Montreal (French: Centre-Ville de Montréal) is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Drummondville
Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River.
Durham Report
The Report on the Affairs of British North America, (Rapport sur les affaires de l’Amérique du Nord britannique, 1839) commonly known as the Durham Report or Lord Durham's Report, is an important document in the history of Quebec, Ontario, Canada and the British Empire.
Eastern Canada
Eastern Canada (Est du Canada, also the Eastern provinces, Canadian East or the East) is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of Hudson Bay/Hudson Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces (from east to west): Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
Eastern Canadian blizzard of March 1971
The Eastern Canadian blizzard of March 1971 was a severe winter storm that struck portions of eastern Canada from March 3 to March 5, 1971.
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Eastern gray squirrel
The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), also known, particularly outside of North America, as simply the grey squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Eastern wolf
The eastern wolf (Canis lycaon or Canis lupus lycaon or Canis rufus lycaon), also known as the timber wolf, Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada.
Economy of Quebec
The economy of Quebec is diversified and post-industrial with an average potential for growth.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Education in Quebec
Education in Quebec is governed by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur).
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Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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English Canada
English Canada comprises that part of the population within Canada, whether of British origin or otherwise, that speaks English.
English cuisine
English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Ericsson
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm.
Eskaleut languages
The Eskaleut, Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
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Estrie
Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships.
Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
European herring gull
The European herring gull (Larus argentatus) is a large gull, up to long.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Exclusive jurisdiction
Exclusive jurisdiction exists in civil procedure if one court has the power to adjudicate a case to the exclusion of all other courts.
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Executive Council of Quebec
The Executive Council of Quebec is the cabinet of the Government of Quebec.
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Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
Expo 67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967.
Expulsion of the Acadians
The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.
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Factory (trading post)
Factory was the common name during the medieval and early modern eras for an entrepôt – which was essentially an early form of free-trade zone or transshipment point.
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Fagus grandifolia
Fagus grandifolia, the American beech or North American beech, is the only species of beech native to North America.
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Fall of Constantinople
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.
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Fanfreluche
Fanfreluche was a French-language Canadian children's television show made in Quebec by Radio-Canada.
Far East
The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.
Fathers of Confederation
The Fathers of Confederation are the 36 people who attended at least one of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864 (23 attendees), the Quebec Conference of 1864 (33 attendees), and the London Conference of 1866 (16 attendees), preceding Canadian Confederation.
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Félix Award
The Félix Award (Trophée Félix or Prix Félix) is an award, given by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois (ADISQ) on an annual basis to artists working in the music and humor industry in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Félix Leclerc
Félix Leclerc, (August 2, 1914 – August 8, 1988) was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist.
Federal Court (Canada)
The Federal Court (Cour fédérale) is a Canadian trial court that hears cases arising under certain areas of federal law.
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Federal Court of Appeal
The Federal Court of Appeal (Cour d'appel fédérale) is a Canadian appellate court that hears cases concerning federal matters.
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Federal law
Federal law is the body of law created by the federal government of a country.
Federalism in Quebec
Federalism in Quebec (French: Fédéralisme au Québec) is concerned with the support of confederation in regards to the federal union of Canada: that is, support for the principles and/or political system of the government of Canada (status quo).
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Festival du nouveau cinéma
The Festival du nouveau cinéma or FNC (English: Festival of New Cinema) is an annual independent film festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring independent films from around the world.
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Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.
Financial services
Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
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First Nations in Canada
First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.
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Flag of Quebec
The flag of Quebec, called the, represents the Canadian province of Quebec.
Fleur-de-lis
The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean and respectively).
Food industry
The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.
Fort Chambly
Fort Chambly is a historic fort in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
Fortress of Louisbourg
The Fortress of Louisbourg (Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
François Gaston de Lévis
François-Gaston de Lévis, 1st Duke of Lévis (20 August 1719 – 20 November 1787), styled as the Chevalier de Lévis until 1785, was a nobleman and a Marshal of France.
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François Legault
François Legault (born May 26, 1957) is a Canadian politician serving as the 32nd premier of Quebec since 2018.
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François-Xavier Garneau
François-Xavier Garneau (June 15, 1809 – February 2 or February 3, 1866) was a nineteenth-century French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and liberal who wrote a three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada between 1845 and 1848.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Quebec and France are french-speaking countries and territories.
Francis I of France
Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.
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Franco-Albertans
Franco-Albertans (Franco-Albertains) are francophone residents of the Canadian province of Alberta.
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Franco-Manitoban
Franco-Manitobans (Franco-Manitobains) are French Canadians or Canadian francophones living in the province of Manitoba.
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Franco-Ontarians
Franco-Ontarians (Franco-Ontariens or Franco-Ontariennes if female, sometimes known as Ontarois and Ontaroises) are Francophone Canadians that reside in the province of Ontario.
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Fransaskois
Fransaskois, (cf. Québécois), Franco-Saskatchewanais or Franco-Saskatchewanians are French Canadians or Canadian francophones living in the province of Saskatchewan.
Fraxinus americana
Fraxinus americana, the white ash or American ash, is a fast-growing species of ash tree native to eastern and central North America.
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French America
French America, sometimes called Franco-America, in contrast to Anglo-America, is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas.
French Americans
French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.
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French and Indian Wars
The French and Indian Wars were a series of conflicts that occurred in North America between 1688 and 1763, some of which indirectly were related to the European dynastic wars.
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French Canadians
French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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French cuisine
French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Fur trade
The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.
G7
The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member".
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Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature.
Gaspé Peninsula
The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia, is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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Gaspé, Quebec
Gaspé is a city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec in Canada.
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine is an administrative region of Quebec consisting of the Gaspé Peninsula (Gaspésie) and the Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
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Gaston Miron
Gaston Miron (8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution.
Gatineau
Gatineau is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
Gemini Awards
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's English-language television industry.
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
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Gens du pays
"Gens du pays" is a Quebecois song that has been called the unofficial national anthem of Quebec.
Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
Geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek:,, 'earth';,, 'form'; and,, 'study') is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earth's surface.
George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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George-Étienne Cartier
Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, (pronounced; September 6, 1814May 20, 1873) was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation.
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Gilles Archambault
Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.
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Gilles Vigneault
Gilles Vigneault (born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.
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Gilles Villeneuve
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (January 18, 1950 – May 8, 1982) was a Canadian racing driver who spent six years in Formula One racing for Scuderia Ferrari, winning six Grands Prix and earning widespread acclaim for his performances.
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Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano (often misspelled Verrazano in English; 1485–1528) was an Italian (Florentine) explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.
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Golden eagle
The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere.
Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.
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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. Quebec and Government of Canada are 1867 establishments in Canada.
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Governor of New France
The governor of New France was the viceroy of the King of France in North America.
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Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
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Granby, Quebec
Granby is a town in the southwestern region of Quebec east of Montreal.
Grand Théâtre de Québec
The Grand Théâtre de Québec is a performing arts complex in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway (Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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Great blue heron
The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. Quebec and Great Lakes are eastern Canada.
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands
The Great Lakes-St.
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Great Peace of Montreal
The Great Peace of Montreal (La Grande paix de Montréal) was a peace treaty between New France and 39 First Nations of North America that ended the Beaver Wars.
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Greater Montreal
Greater Montreal (Grand Montréal) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Greek Revival architecture
Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Groundhog
The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots.
Gulf of St. Lawrence
The Gulf of St.
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Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (3 September 1724 – 10 November 1808), known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was a British Army officer, peer and colonial administrator.
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Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté, (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, and poker player.
Habitants
Habitants were French settlers and the inhabitants of French origin who farmed the land along the two shores of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf in what is the present-day Province of Quebec in Canada.
Haitian Creole
Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population.
Harp seal
The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean.
Héroux-Devtek
Héroux-Devtek Inc.
Head of government
In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
Hearst, Ontario
Hearst is a town in the district of Cochrane, Ontario, Canada.
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Henri Bourassa
Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa (September 1, 1868 – August 31, 1952) was a French Canadian political leader and publisher.
Henri Julien
Henri Julien, baptised Octave-Henri Julien (14 May 1852 – 17 September 1908), was a Québécois artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News and for his political cartoons in the Montreal Daily Star.
Henry IV of France
Henry IV (Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.
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Higher education in Quebec
Higher education in Quebec differs from the education system of other provinces in Canada.
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Hinduism in Canada
Hinduism is the third-largest religion in Canada, which is followed by approximately 2.3% of the nation's total population.
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History of Quebec
Quebec was first called Canada between 1534 and 1763.
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History of the Jews in Canada
Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Honoré Beaugrand
Honoré Beaugrand (24 March 1848 – 7 October 1906) was a French Canadian journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec.
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House of Commons of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Quebec and house of Commons of Canada are 1867 establishments in Canada.
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House sparrow
The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.
Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
Hubert Aquin
Hubert Aquin (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.
Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait (Détroit d'Hudson) in Nunavut links the Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada.
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
Hunting
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.
Huron-Wendat Nation
The Huron-Wendat Nation (or Huron-Wendat First Nation) is an Iroquoian-speaking nation that was established in the 17th century.
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Hydro-Québec
Hydro-Québec is a Canadian Crown corporation public utility headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system
Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system (also known as the Quebec interconnection) is an international electric power transmission system centred in Quebec, Canada.
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Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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Hydrography
Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activities, including economic development, security and defense, scientific research, and environmental protection.
Ice cider
Ice cider (also known as apple icewine or cidre de glace in French; sold as ice apple wine in the United States) is the cider equivalent of ice wine: a fermented beverage made from the juice of frozen apples.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ice wine
Icewine (or ice wine; Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine.
Illinois Country
The Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois;, i.e. the Illinois people) (Spanish: País de los ilinueses) — sometimes referred to as Upper Louisiana (Haute-Louisiane; Alta Luisiana)—was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s in what is now the Midwestern United States.
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Indian Act
The Indian Act (Loi sur les Indiens) is a Canadian Act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves.
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve (reserve indienne) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." Reserves are areas set aside for First Nations, one of the major groupings of Indigenous peoples in Canada, after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with Indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral lands under Aboriginal title.
Indian settlement
An Indian settlement is a census subdivision outlined by the Canadian government Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada for census purposes.
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Indian Territory
Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original Indian title to their land as an independent nation-state.
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Indigenous peoples in Quebec
Indigenous peoples in Quebec total eleven distinct ethnic groups.
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Iniminimagimo
Iniminimagimo was a French language children's television show made in Quebec.
Innu
The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period (French for "mountain people", English pronunciation), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit the territory in the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Labrador and some portions of Quebec.
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Innu-aimun
Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada.
Interculturalism
Interculturalism is a political movement that supports cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies within cultures.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
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Inuit grammar
The Inuit languages, like other Eskimo–Aleut languages, exhibit a regular agglutinative and heavily suffixing morphology.
Invasion of Quebec (1775)
The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Iris versicolor
Iris versicolor is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, and in Britain and Ireland as purple iris.
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Iroquoian languages
The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.
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Irreligion in Canada
Irreligion is common throughout all provinces and territories of Canada.
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ISIS (satellite)
ISIS 1 and 2 ("International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies") were the third and fourth in a series of Canadian satellites launched to study the ionosphere over one complete solar cycle.
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Islam in Canada
Islam is the second-largest religion in Canada practised by approximately 5% of the population.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Italian Wars
The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea.
Jack pine
Jack pine (Pinus banksiana), also known as grey pine or scrub pine, is a North American pine.
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier (Jakez Karter; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.
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Jacques Villeneuve
Jacques Villeneuve (born 9 April 1971) is a Canadian former professional racing driver and amateur musician who won the 1997 Formula One World Championship with Williams.
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James Bay
James Bay (Baie James; dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada.
James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (Convention de la Baie-James et du Nord québécois) is an Aboriginal land claim settlement, approved in 1975 by the Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec, and later slightly modified in 1978 by the Northeastern Quebec Agreement (Accord du Nord-Est québécois), through which Quebec's Naskapi First Nation joined the agreement.
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James Bay Project
The James Bay Project (projet de la Baie-James) refers to the construction of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec, Canada by state-owned utility Hydro-Québec, and the diversion of neighbouring rivers into the La Grande watershed.
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James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721)
General James Murray (20 January 1721 – 18 June 1794) was a Scottish army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Quebec from 1760 to 1768 and governor of Minorca from 1778 to 1782.
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Je me souviens
Je me souviens is the official motto of Quebec, and translated literally into English means: "I remember." The exact meaning of this short sentence is subject to several interpretations, though all relate to the history of the Quebec people.
Jean Coutu Group
The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. is a Canadian drugstore chain headquartered in Varennes, Quebec.
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Jean Paul Lemieux
Jean Paul Lemieux, (1904 - 1990) was one of the foremost twentieth century painters in Canada.
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Jean Talon
Jean Talon, Count d'Orsainville (January 8, 1626 – November 23, 1694) was a French colonial administrator who served as the first Intendant of New France.
Jean-François Roberval
Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval, also named "l'élu de Poix" or the Sieur de Roberval, (– 1560) was a French officer who was appointed viceroy of Canada by Francis I. He led the first French colonial attempt in the Saint Laurent valley in the first half of the 16th century with the explorer Jacques Cartier.
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Jean-Paul Riopelle
Jean-Paul Riopelle, (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec.
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Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army.
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Jew's harp
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
Jig
The jig (port, port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune.
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John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, (12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840), also known as "Radical Jack" and commonly referred to in Canadian history texts simply as Lord Durham, was a British Whig statesman, colonial administrator, Governor General and high commissioner of British North America.
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John the Baptist
John the Baptist (–) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD.
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for the Crown Dependencies, the British Overseas Territories, some Commonwealth countries and a few institutions in the United Kingdom.
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Juglans cinerea
Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut,Snow, Charles Henry.
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Julie Payette
Julie Payette (born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
Juridical person
A juridical person is a legal person that is not a natural person but an organization recognized by law as a fictitious person such as a corporation, government agency, non-governmental organisation, or international organization (such as the European Union).
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Just for Laughs
Just for Laughs (Juste pour rire) is a comedy festival that is held every July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Kahnawake
The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (Territoire Mohawk de Kahnawake, in the Mohawk language, Kahnawáˀkye in Tuscarora) is a First Nations reserve of the Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal.
Kanesatake
Kanesatake (Kanehsatà:ke in Mohawk) is a Mohawk (Kanien'kéha:ka in Mohawk) settlement on the shore of the Lake of Two Mountains in southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint Lawrence rivers and about west of Montreal.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters (and sisters) from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.
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Kativik Regional Government
The Kativik Regional Government (Administration régionale Kativik, ARK) is the representative regional authority for most of the Nunavik region of Quebec.
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King George's War
King George's War (1744–1748) is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748).
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King William's War
King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.
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King's Daughters
The King's Daughters (filles du roi, or label in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV.
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Kingdom of Saguenay
The Kingdom of Saguenay (Royaume du Saguenay) was a mythical kingdom that French-Breton maritime explorer Jacques Cartier tried to reach in 1535, supposedly located inland of present-day Quebec, Canada.
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Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario.
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Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation.
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Kyoto Protocol
The was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.
L'Action nationale
() is a French-language monthly published in Quebec, Canada.
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La Grande River
La Grande River (La Grande Rivière; script; both meaning "great river") is a river in northwestern Quebec, Canada, rising in the highlands of the north-central part of the province and flowing roughly west to its drainage at James Bay.
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La La La Human Steps
La La La Human Steps was a Québécois contemporary dance group in Canada, active between 1980 and 2015, known for its energetic, acrobatic style involving fast-paced and athletic physical contact.
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La Petite Vie
La petite vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom aired by Radio-Canada from 1993 to 1999.
La Revanche des berceaux
La Revanche des berceaux (French for "the revenge of the cradles") is an expression referring to the high birth rate of French Canadians prior to the late 20th century.
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Labrador Current
The Labrador Current is a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean which flows from the Arctic Ocean south along the coast of Labrador and passes around Newfoundland, continuing south along the east coast of Canada near Nova Scotia.
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Labrador Peninsula
The Labrador Peninsula, also known as the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, is a large peninsula in eastern Canada.
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Lachine Canal
The Lachine Canal (Canal de Lachine) is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5 kilometres (9 miles) from the Old Port of Montreal to Lake Saint-Louis, through the boroughs of Lachine, Lasalle and Sud-Ouest.
Laity
In religious organizations, the laity consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother.
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Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog (Lac Memphrémagog) is a fresh water glacial lake located between Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada.
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Lake Mistassini
Lake Mistassini is the largest natural lake by surface area in the province of Quebec, Canada, with a total surface area of approximately and a net area (water surface area only) of.
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Lake Pohenegamook
Lake Pohenegamook (Lac Pohénégamook) is a Canadian lake located in Temiscouata Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent in southeastern Quebec, immediately north of the International Boundary with Maine at Aroostook County.
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Lanaudière
Lanaudière is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal.
Largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico.
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Larix laricina
Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated population in central Alaska.
Laurentian Bank of Canada
The Laurentian Bank of Canada (LBC; Banque Laurentienne du Canada) is a Schedule 1 bank that operates primarily in the province of Quebec, with commercial and business banking offices located in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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Laurentian Mountains
The Laurentian Mountains, also known as the Laurentians or Laurentides, are a mountain range in Canada.
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Laurentide ice sheet
The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.
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Laurentides
The Laurentides is a region of Quebec.
Laval, Quebec
Laval is a city in Quebec, Canada.
Lavergne Law
The La Vergne Law (or Lavergne Law) of 1910, formally known as the Loi amendant le Code civil concernant les contrats faits avec les compagnies de services d'utilité publique (1910, Geo. V, c. 40), was an act of the Parliament of Quebec which made the use of both English and French mandatory on tickets, documents, bills and contracts issued by transportation and public utility companies.
Laviolette Bridge
The Laviolette Bridge (French: pont Laviolette) is an arch bridge connecting the city of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada to Bécancour on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River via Autoroute 55.
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Le Devoir
("Duty") is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada.
Legislation
Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body.
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838.
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Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the Parliament of the Province of Canada.
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Legislative Council of Lower Canada
The Legislative Council of Lower Canada was the upper house of the Parliament of Lower Canada from 1792 until 1838.
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Les Bougon
Les Bougon - c'est aussi ça la vie! is a Quebec sitcom broadcast by Radio-Canada from 2004 to 2006, written by François Avard and Jean-François Mercier and produced by Fabienne Larouche.
Liberal democracy
Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a representative democracy with ideas of liberal political philosophy.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
The lieutenant governor of Quebec ((lieutenante-gouverneure du Québec) is the representative in Quebec of the monarch, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, as well as the other Commonwealth realms and any subdivisions thereof, and resides predominantly in oldest realm, the United Kingdom.
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Line dance
A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
Lionel Groulx
Lionel Groulx (13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, professor, public intellectual and Quebec nationalist.
Liquor
Liquor or distilled beverage is an alcoholic drink produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.
List of boroughs in Quebec
This is a list of boroughs (arrondissements) in Quebec.
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List of Canadian artists
The following is a list of Canadian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media).
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List of Canadian provinces and territories by gross domestic product
This article lists Canadian provinces and territories by gross domestic product (GDP).
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List of countries and territories where French is an official language
French is an official language in 32 independent nations which is the second most geographically widespread official language in the world after English. Quebec and List of countries and territories where French is an official language are french-speaking countries and territories.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP)
GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
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List of festivals in Quebec
This is a non-exhaustive list of festivals held in Quebec.
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List of French monarchs
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
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List of French-language Canadian television series
This is a non-exhaustive list of French-language television series from Canada.
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List of life sciences
This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings.
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List of political parties in Quebec
The following is a list of all political parties in the Canadian province of Quebec.
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List of premiers of Quebec
This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec since Canadian Confederation in 1867.
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List of Quebec writers
This is a list of authors from the Canadian province of Quebec.
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List of regions of Quebec
The province of Quebec, Canada, is officially divided into 17 administrative regions.
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List of the public meetings held in Lower Canada between May and November 1837
This is a list of the public meetings held in Lower Canada between May and November 1837, both those held by the italic as well as those held by the Constitutional Party.
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Little Canada (term)
Little Canada (French: le petit Canada) is a name for any of the various communities where French Canadians congregated upon emigrating to the United States, in particular New England, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Local municipality (Quebec)
The local municipality is the lowest unit of local government in Quebec, Canada and is distinguished from the higher-level regional county municipality, or RCM, a municipal government at the supralocal level.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
London Conference of 1866
The London Conference was held in London, in the United Kingdom, in 1866.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Louis Riel
Louis Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people.
Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louis-Hector de Callière
Louis-Hector de Callière or Callières (12 November 1648 – 26 May 1703) was a French military officer, who was the governor of Montreal (1684–1699), and the 13th governor of New France from 1698 to 1703.
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Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard dit La Fontaine, 1st Baronet, KCMG (October 4, 1807 – February 26, 1864) was a Canadian politician who served as the first Premier of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada.
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Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel
The Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel (Pont-Tunnel Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine) is a highway bridge–tunnel running over and beneath the Saint Lawrence River.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau (October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation.
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Louisiana (New France)
Louisiana (Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.
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Low-carbon economy
A low-carbon economy (LCE) is an economy which absorbs as much greenhouse gas as it emits.
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Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada (province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841).
Lower Canada Rebellion
The Lower Canada Rebellion (rébellion du Bas-Canada), commonly referred to as the Patriots' Rebellion (Rébellion des patriotes) in French, is the name given to the armed conflict in 1837–38 between rebels and the colonial government of Lower Canada (now southern Quebec).
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Lower Canada Tories
Lower Canada Tories is a general name for individuals and parliamentary groups in Lower Canada, and later in the Province of Canada's division of Canada East, who supported the British connection, colonialism, and a strong colonial governor.
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Magdalen Islands
The Magdalen Islands (Îles de la Madeleine) are an archipelago in the Gulf of St.
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Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.
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Makivvik
Makivvik (script,; Makivvik) (formerly Makivik Corporation) is the legal representative of Quebec's Inuit, established in 1978 under the terms of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the agreement that established the institutions of Nunavik.
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy (skicinuwatuwewakon or skicinuwi-latuwewakon) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the Wolastoqey and Passamaquoddy peoples along both sides of the border between Maine in the United States and New Brunswick, Canada.
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Mallard
The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa.
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Manitoba Schools Question
The Manitoba Schools Question was a political crisis in the Canadian province of Manitoba that occurred late in the 19th century, attacking publicly-funded separate schools for Roman Catholics and Protestants.
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Maple leaf
The maple leaf is the characteristic leaf of the maple tree.
Maple syrup
Maple syrup is a syrup made from the sap of maple trees.
Marc Garneau
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau (born February 23, 1949) is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021.
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (born Hypolite Wilfrid Marcaurèle Côté; April 6, 1869 – January 29, 1937) was a French Canadian painter and sculptor.
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter, known best for paintings that convey the charm of small-town Quebec.
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Marcelle Ferron
Marcelle Ferron, (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001) was a Canadian Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was one of the original 16 signatories of Paul-Émile Borduas's Refus global manifesto, and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene, associated with the Automatistes.
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Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral or in full Mary, Queen of the World and St.
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Matrox
Matrox Graphics, Inc. is a producer of video card components and equipment for personal computers and workstations.
Maurice Duplessis
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, (April 20, 1890 – September 7, 1959), byname "Le Chef" ("The Boss"), was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec.
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Mauricie
Mauricie is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec.
Métis
The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.
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McCord Stewart Museum
The McCord Stewart Museum, formerly known as the McCord Museum of Canadian History, is a public research and teaching museum.
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McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Meech Lake Accord
The Meech Lake Accord (Accord du lac Meech) was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and all 10 Canadian provincial premiers.
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Metro Inc.
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Mi'kmaq
The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine.
Mi'kmaq language
The Mi'kmaq language, or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Mi'kmaq population is roughly 20,000.
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Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Québécois novelist and playwright.
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Microgadus tomcod
Microgadus tomcod, also commonly known as frostfish, Atlantic tomcod or winter cod, is a type of cod found in North American coastal waters from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River and northern Newfoundland, south to Virginia.
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Microids
Microids (formerly Microïds) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris.
Mid-20th century baby boom
The middle of the 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the Western world.
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Middle class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
Ministry of Culture and Communications (Quebec)
The Ministry of Culture and Communications (Ministère de la Culture et des Communications) is responsible for promoting and protecting the culture in the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Quebec)
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (in French: Ministère de l’Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur, abbreviated as MEES) was the combined government ministry of Quebec that governed education, recreation, and sports from 27 February 2015 to 22 June 2020.
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Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec)
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests (French: Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts) is responsible for the management of natural resource extraction in the Canadian province of Québec.
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Ministry of Health and Social Services (Quebec)
The Minister of Health and Social Services (in French: Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux) is responsible for the administration of health and social services in the province of Quebec since June 1985.
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Ministry of Public Security (Quebec)
The Ministry of Public Security (French: Ministère de la Sécurité publique) is responsible for public safety and security in the province of Quebec.
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Ministry of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change
The Ministry of Environment, Fight Against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks (in French: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs or MELCCFP) is responsible for environmental policy and land development in the province of Quebec.
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Ministry of Tourism (Quebec)
The Ministry of Tourism (in French: Ministère du Tourisme) is a Ministry of the Government of Quebec responsible for promoting tourism to the province of Quebec.
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Minke whale
The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale.
Mississippi River Delta
The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States.
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
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Mohawk language
Mohawk (Kanienʼkéha, " of the Flint Place") is an Iroquoian language currently spoken by around 3,500 people of the Mohawk nation, located primarily in current or former Haudenosaunee territories, predominately Canada (southern Ontario and Quebec), and to a lesser extent in the United States (western and northern New York).
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Mohawk people
The Kanien'kehá:ka ("People of the flint"; commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
Monarchy of Canada
The monarchy of Canada is Canada's form of government embodied by the Canadian sovereign and head of state.
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Monarchy of the United Kingdom
The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.
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Montérégie
Montérégie is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec.
Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
Montreal Alouettes
The Montreal Alouettes (French: Les Alouettes de Montréal) are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec.
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Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling Canadiens is always used instead of Canadians.
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Montreal Expos
The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Montreal Symphony Orchestra
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, or OSM) is a Canadian symphony orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (Festival des films du monde de Montréal), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019.
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Moose
The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.
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Moosonee
Moosonee is a town in northern Ontario, Canada, on the Moose River approximately south of James Bay.
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.
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Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Mount Caubvick
Mount Caubvick (known as Mont D'Iberville in Quebec) is a mountain located in Canada on the border between Labrador and Quebec in the Selamiut Range of the Torngat Mountains.
Moving Day (Quebec)
Moving Day (jour du déménagement) is a tradition, but not a legal requirement, in the province of Quebec, Canada, dating from the time when the province used to mandate fixed terms for leases of rental properties.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) is a contemporary art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Musée de la civilisation
The Musée de la civilisation, often directly translated in English-language media outside Quebec as the Museum of Civilization, is a museum located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (National Fine Arts Museum of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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Music of Quebec
As a cosmopolitan province, Quebec is a home to varied genres of music, ranging from folk to hip hop.
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Muskellunge
The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), often shortened to muskie, musky, ski, or lunge, is a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America.
Muskox
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus, in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in translit; in translit, label), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae.
Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas comprise numerous different cultures.
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Narcotic
The term narcotic (from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "I make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties.
Narwhal
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a species of toothed whale native to the Arctic.
Naskapi
The Naskapi (Nascapi, Naskapee, Nascapee) are an Indigenous people of the Subarctic native to the historical region St'aschinuw (ᒋᑦ ᐊᔅᒋᓄᐤ, meaning 'our inclusive land'), which was located in present day northern Quebec and Labrador, neighbouring Nunavik.
Naskapi language
Naskapi (also known as / in the Naskapi language) is an Algonquian language spoken by the Naskapi in Quebec and Labrador, Canada.
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Nation
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.
Nation state
A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.
National Assembly of Quebec
The National Assembly of Quebec (officially in Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada.
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National Bank of Canada
The National Bank of Canada (Banque Nationale du Canada) is the sixth largest commercial bank in Canada.
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National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.
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National Patriots' Day
National Patriots' Day (Journée nationale des Patriotes) is a statutory holiday observed annually in the Canadian province of Quebec, on the Monday preceding 25 May.
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National Theatre School of Canada
The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS, École nationale de théâtre du Canada) is a private institution of professional theatre studies in Montreal, Quebec.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
Natural person
In jurisprudence, a natural person (also physical person in some Commonwealth countries, or natural entity) is a person (in legal meaning, i.e., one who has its own legal personality) that is an individual human being, distinguished from the broader category of a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.
Nav Canada
Nav Canada (styled as NAV CANADA) is a privately run, non-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS).
Neil Bissoondath
Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born April 19, 1955, in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who lives in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. Quebec and New Brunswick are 1867 establishments in Canada, eastern Canada, french-speaking countries and territories, provinces and territories of Canada and states and territories established in 1867.
New France
New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. Quebec and New France are eastern Canada.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
New World warbler
The New World warblers or wood-warblers are a group of small, often colorful, passerine birds that make up the family Parulidae and are restricted to the New World.
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New Year's Eve
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, 31 December.
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador are eastern Canada and provinces and territories of Canada.
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Ninety-Two Resolutions
The Ninety-Two Resolutions were drafted by Louis-Joseph Papineau and other members of the Parti patriote of Lower Canada in 1834.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
Nord-du-Québec
Nord-du-Québec (Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
North American beaver
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber).
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North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
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North-West Rebellion
The North-West Rebellion (Rébellion du Nord-Ouest), also known as the North-West Resistance, was an armed resistance movement by the Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising by Cree and Assiniboine of the District of Saskatchewan, North-West Territories, against the Canadian government.
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Northeastern Ontario
Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior.
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Northern gannet
The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is a seabird, the largest species of the gannet family, Sulidae.
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Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast. Quebec and Nova Scotia are 1867 establishments in Canada, eastern Canada, provinces and territories of Canada and states and territories established in 1867.
Nunavik
Nunavik (ᓄᓇᕕᒃ) is an area in Canada which comprises the northern third of the province of Quebec, part of the Nord-du-Québec region and nearly coterminous with Kativik.
Nunavut
Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. Quebec and Nunavut are provinces and territories of Canada.
O Canada
"O Canada" (italic) is the national anthem of Canada.
Octave Crémazie
Octave Crémazie (April 16, 1827 – January 16, 1879) was a French Canadian poet and bookseller born in Quebec City.
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October Crisis
The October Crisis (Crise d'Octobre) was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence.
Office québécois de la langue française
The italic ((OQLF) (Quebec Office of the French Language) is an agency of the Quebec provincial government charged with ensuring legislative requirements with respect to the right to use French are respected. Established on 24 March 1961 by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage, the OQLF was attached to the Ministry of Culture and Communications.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Official Language Act (Quebec)
The Official Language Act of 1974 (Loi sur la langue officielle), also known as Bill 22, was an act of the National Assembly of Quebec, commissioned by Premier Robert Bourassa, which made French the sole official language of Quebec, Canada.
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Official Languages Act (Canada)
The Official Languages Act (Loi sur les langues officielles) is a Canadian law that came into force on September 9, 1969, which gives French and English equal status in the government of Canada.
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Ohio River
The Ohio River is a river in the United States.
Oil
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).
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Old Quebec
Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) is a historic neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada. Quebec and Ontario are 1867 establishments in Canada, eastern Canada, provinces and territories of Canada and states and territories established in 1867.
Open economy
An open economy is a type of economy where not only the domestic factors but also entities in other countries engage in trade of products (goods and services).
Orchestre Symphonique de Québec
The Orchestre symphonique de Québec (OSQ; English, Quebec Symphony Orchestra) is a Canadian symphony orchestra based in Quebec City.
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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, La Francophonie, sometimes also called International Organisation of italic in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers), or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture. Quebec and Organisation internationale de la Francophonie are french-speaking countries and territories.
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Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
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Ottawa River
The Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi) is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
Outaouais
Outaouais (also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada.
Outline of space science
The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to space science: Space science – field that encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that involve space exploration and study natural phenomena and physical bodies occurring in outer space, such as space medicine and astrobiology.
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Paleo-Indians
Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Parish church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.
Parliament Building (Quebec)
The Parliament Building of Quebec (Hôtel du Parlement du Québec) is an eight-floor structure and is home to the National Assembly of Quebec (Assemblée Nationale du Québec), in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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Parliament of Canada
The Parliament of Canada (Parlement du Canada) is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the King, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Quebec and Parliament of Canada are 1867 establishments in Canada.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Parti canadien
The or was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century.
Parti National (Quebec)
The Parti National was the name taken by the Liberal Party of Quebec, Canada, under the premiership of Honoré Mercier.
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Parti Québécois
The paren,; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state. The PQ has also promoted the possibility of maintaining a loose political and economic sovereignty-association between Quebec and Canada.
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Passe-Partout
Passe-Partout was a Quebec French-language children's television program produced by Radio-Québec (later Télé-Québec) that was originally in production from 1977 to 1992, and was revived in 2019 with a new cast.
Patriation
Patriation is the political process that led to full Canadian sovereignty, culminating with the Constitution Act, 1982.
Patriote flag
The Patriote flag (also known as le Tricolore canadien) was used by the Patriote movement in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) between 1832 and 1838.
Patriote movement
The patriotes movement was a political movement that existed in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) from the turn of the 19th century to the Patriote Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 and the subsequent Act of Union of 1840.
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.
Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve
Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve (15 February 1612 – 9 September 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Ville-Marie, now the city of Montreal.
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Paul-Émile Borduas
Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québecois artist known for his abstract paintings.
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Pauline Marois
Pauline Marois (born March 29, 1949) is a retired Canadian politician, who served as the 30th premier of Quebec from 2012 to 2014.
Pâté chinois
Pâté chinois ('Chinese pie') is a French Canadian dish similar to the English shepherd's pie or French hachis Parmentier.
Peace of Utrecht
The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715.
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Percé Rock
Percé Rock is a huge sheer rock formation in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec, Canada, off Percé Bay.
Peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.
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Pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry is an industry involved in medicine that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods for use as drugs that function by being administered to (or self-administered by) patients using such medications with the goal of curing and/or preventing disease (as well as possibly alleviating symptoms of illness and/or injury).
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723.
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Physical geography
Physical geography (also known as physiography) is one of the three main branches of geography.
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Picea glauca
Picea glauca, the white spruce, is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in North America.
Picea mariana
Picea mariana, the black spruce, is a North American species of spruce tree in the pine family.
Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America.
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Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
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Pinus strobus
Pinus strobus, commonly called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America.
Place d'Armes
Place d'Armes is a square of the Old Montreal quarter of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada anchored by a monument in memory of Paul de Chomedey, founder of Montreal.
Place des Arts
View of the Place des Arts esplanade. The Musée d'art contemporain is on the left; behind it is the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, with the Théâtre Maisonneuve on the right. Place des Arts cultural complex entrance, view from Sainte-Catherine Street. Place des Arts is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the largest cultural and artistic complex in Canada.
Placentia Bay
Placentia Bay (Baie de Plaisance) is a body of water on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Pointe-à-Callière Museum
Pointe-à-Callière Museum (Musée Pointe-à-Callière) is a museum of archaeology and history in Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
Political representation
Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin's Concept of Representation (1967).
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Politics of Quebec
The politics of Quebec are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces, namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy.
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Pontiac Regional County Municipality
Pontiac (municipalité régionale de comté de Pontiac) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada.
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Population of Canada by province and territory
Canada is divided into 10 provinces and three territories.
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Populus tremuloides
Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
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Poutine
Poutine is a dish of french fries and cheese curds topped with a brown gravy.
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canada-based aircraft engine manufacturer.
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Premier of Quebec
The premier of Quebec (premier ministre du Québec (masculine) or première ministre du Québec (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada. Quebec and prime Minister of Canada are 1867 establishments in Canada.
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Private law
Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations (as it is called in civil legal systems).
Privateer
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
Prix du Québec
The Prix du Québec are awards given by the Government of Quebec to individuals for cultural and scientific achievements.
Prix Gémeaux
The Prix Gémeaux or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French.
Prix Iris
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.
Professional development
Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing praxis in addition to the transferable skills and theoretical academic knowledge found in traditional liberal arts and pure sciences education.
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Progressive tax
A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.
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Prohibition
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Province of Canada
The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867.
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Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
The Province of Quebec (Province de Québec) was a colony in British North America which comprised the former French colony of Canada.
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Provinces and territories of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Public land
In all modern states, a portion of land is held by central or local governments.
Public law
Public law is the part of law that governs relations and affairs between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct concern to society.
Pulp and paper industry
The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products.
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Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Qingdao
Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.
Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.
Quartier Latin, Montreal
The Quartier Latin is an area in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, located east of the Quartier des Spectacles and west of the Centre-Sud and Village, centred around UQAM and lower Saint-Denis Street.
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Québécois nation motion
The Québécois nation motion was a parliamentary motion tabled by Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 and approved by the House of Commons of Canada on Monday, November 27, 2006.
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Québec solidaire
Québec solidaire (QS) is a democratic socialist and sovereigntist political party in Quebec, Canada.
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Quebec Act
The Quebec Act, 1774 (Acte de Québec de 1774) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which set procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.
Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912
The Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912 (Loi de l’extension des frontières de Québec) was passed by the Parliament of Canada on April 1, 1912.
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Quebec Boundary Extension Act, 1898
The Quebec Boundary Extension Act, 1898 was an Act of the Parliament of Canada that expanded the territory of the province of Quebec.
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Quebec Bridge
The Quebec Bridge (pont de Québec) is a road, rail, and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy (a former suburb that in 2002 became the arrondissement Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge in Quebec City) and Lévis, in Quebec, Canada.
Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
The Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (Charte des droits et libertés de la personne), also known as the "Quebec Charter", is a statutory bill of rights and human rights code passed by the National Assembly of Quebec on June 27, 1975.
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Quebec City
Quebec City (or; Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.
Quebec City Police Service
The Service de police de la Ville de Québec (French for Quebec City Police Service) is the municipal police force of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and the neighbouring municipalities in the urban agglomeration of Quebec City.
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Quebec Conference, 1864
The Quebec Conference was held from October 10 to 24, 1864, to discuss a proposed Canadian confederation.
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Quebec Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal of Quebec (sometimes referred to as Quebec Court of Appeal or QCA) (in French: la Cour d'appel du Québec) is the highest judicial court in Quebec, Canada.
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Quebec diaspora
The Quebec diaspora consists of Quebec immigrants and their descendants dispersed over the North American continent and historically concentrated in the New England region of the United States, Ontario, and the Canadian Prairies.
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Quebec French
Quebec French (français québécois), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.
Quebec Government Offices
The Quebec Government Offices (French: Délégations générales du Québec) are the Government of Quebec's official representations outside of Canada.
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Quebec law
Quebec law is unique in Canada because Quebec is the only province in Canada to have a juridical legal system under which civil matters are regulated by French-heritage civil law.
Quebec Legislature
The Quebec Legislature (officially Parliament of Quebec, Parlement du Québec) is the legislature of the province of Quebec, Canada.
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Quebec Liberal Party
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec.
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Quebec literature
This is an article about literature in Quebec.
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Quebec nationalism
Quebec nationalism or Québécois nationalism is a feeling and a political doctrine that prioritizes cultural belonging to, the defence of the interests of, and the recognition of the political legitimacy of the Québécois nation, particularly its French Canadian population.
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Quebec Resolutions
The Quebec Resolutions, also known as the seventy-two resolutions, are a group of statements written at the Quebec Conference of 1864 which laid out the framework for the Canadian Constitution.
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Quebec sovereignty movement
The Quebec sovereignty movement (mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement whose objective is to achieve the independence of Quebec from Canada.
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Quebecor
Quebecor Inc. is a Canadian diversified media and telecommunications company serving Québec based in Montreal.
Queen Anne's War
Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain; it took place during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
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Quercus rubra
Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group (Quercus section Lobatae).
Quiet Revolution
The Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) refers to a significant period of socio-political and socio-cultural transformation in French Canada, particularly in Quebec, following the election of 1960.
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Radarsat-1
RADARSAT-1 was Canada's first commercial Earth observation satellite.
Radarsat-2
RADARSAT-2 is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Earth observation satellite.
Railway Gazette International
Railway Gazette International is a British monthly business magazine and news website covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.
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Rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia.
Réveillon
A réveillon is a long dinner held in the evening preceding Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.
Rebellion Losses Bill
The Rebellion Losses Bill (full name: An Act to provide for the Indemnification of Parties in Lower Canada whose Property was destroyed during the Rebellion in the years 1837 and 1838) was a controversial law enacted by the legislature of the Province of Canada in 1849.
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Red-winged blackbird
The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America.
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Reel (dance)
The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type.
Reference question
In Canadian law, a reference question or reference case (formally called abstract review) is a submission by the federal or a provincial government to the courts asking for an advisory opinion on a major legal issue.
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Reference Re Secession of Quebec
Reference Re Secession of Quebec, 2 SCR 217 is a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality, under both Canadian and international law, of a unilateral secession of Quebec from Canada.
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Refinery
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.
Regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM ('''municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'''.) is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities.
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Regulation 17
Regulation 17 (Règlement 17) was a regulation of the Government of Ontario, Canada, designed to limit instruction in French-language Catholic separate schools.
Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Renaissance Revival architecture
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes.
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René Lévesque
René Lévesque (August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985.
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma
The Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (formerly known as Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois) is a festival created in 1982 to celebrate the cinematographic production of Quebec, Canada.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Responsible government
Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
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Revenu Québec
Revenu Québec (formerly the Ministère du Revenu du Québec, Quebec Ministry of Revenue) is an agency of the government of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
Rigaudon
The rigaudon, anglicized as rigadon or rigadoon, is a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre.
Rimouski
Rimouski is a city in Quebec, Canada.
Rio Tinto (corporation)
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP).
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Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwin (May 12, 1804 – December 9, 1858) was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of Canada.
Robert Bourassa
Robert Bourassa (July 14, 1933 – October 2, 1996) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994.
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Robert Monckton
Lieutenant-General Robert Monckton (24 June 1726 – 21 May 1782) was an officer of the British Army and colonial administrator in British North America.
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Robert Nelson (insurrectionist)
Robert Nelson (August 8, 1794 – March 1, 1873) was an Anglo-Quebecer physician and a leading figure in the Lower Canada Rebellion in 19th century Quebec (Lower Canada).
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Robin et Stella
Robin et Stella was a youth TV show aired on Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec) from 1989 to 1993 featuring France Chevrette as Robin and Lorraine Auger as Stella.
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Rock dove
The rock dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon (also; Columba livia) is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).
Rolls-Royce Holdings
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Route verte
The Route verte (French for "Green Route," or "Greenway") is a network of bicycling and multiuse trails and designated roads, lanes, and surfaces in Quebec, Canada.
Rouyn-Noranda
Rouyn-Noranda (2021 population 42,313) is a city on Osisko Lake in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada; GRC) is the national police service of Canada.
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Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (Commission royale d’enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme, also known as the Bi and Bi Commission and the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission) was a Canadian royal commission established on 19 July 1963, by the government of Prime Minister Lester B.
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Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763.
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Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land (Terre de Rupert), or Prince Rupert's Land (Terre du Prince Rupert), was a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin.
Rural flight
Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas.
Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Safran
Safran S.A. is a French multinational aerospace and defense corporation that designs, develops and manufactures aircraft engines, helicopter engines, spacecraft propulsion systems as well as various other aerospace and military equipment.
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is a region in Quebec, Canada.
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Saint Benedict Abbey, Quebec
Saint Benedict Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Benoit) is an Abbey in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada, and was founded in 1912 by the exiled (Fontenelle Abbey) of St.
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Saint Jacques Street
Saint Jacques Street (officially in rue Saint-Jacques), or St.
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society
The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste) is an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec sovereignism.
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Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain (Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
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Sandhill crane
The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.
Saputo Inc.
Saputo Inc. is a Canadian dairy company based in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1954 by the Saputo family.
Saratoga campaign
The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War.
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Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
São Paulo
São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.
Sûreté du Québec
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) is the provincial police service for the Canadian province of Quebec.
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SCISAT-1
SCISAT-1 is a Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere.
Sea lane
A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used navigable route for large water vessels (ships) on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes, and is preferably safe, direct and economic.
Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Seigneurial system of New France
The manorial system of New France, known as the seigneurial system (Régime seigneurial), was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire.
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Self-determination
Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.
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Senate of Canada
The Senate of Canada (Sénat du Canada) is the upper house of the Parliament of Canada.
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Sept-Îles, Quebec
Sept-Îles is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec.
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Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
The; SPVM) is the municipal police agency for the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the neighbouring communities in the urban agglomeration of Montreal. With over 4,500 officers and more than 1,300 civilian staff, it is the second-largest municipal police agency in Canada after the Toronto Police Service.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
Siege of Louisbourg (1745)
The Siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
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Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
The Siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in 1758 that ended the French colonial era in Atlantic Canada and led to the subsequent British campaign to capture Quebec in 1759 and the remainder of French North America the following year.
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Sikhism in Canada
Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021.
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.
Skunk
Skunks are mammals in the family Mephitidae.
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A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.
Snowbird (person)
A snowbird is a person who migrates from the colder northern parts of North America to warmer southern locales, typically during the winter.
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Snowshoe hare
The snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), also called the varying hare or snowshoe rabbit, is a species of hare found in North America.
Snowy owl
The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), also known as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl, is a large, white owl of the true owl family.
The term social order can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of social structures and institutions.
Social phenomena or social phenomenon (singular) are any behaviours, actions, or events that takes place because of social influence, including from contemporary as well as historical societal influences.
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Société de développement des entreprises culturelles
The Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC) (English: Society for the Development of Cultural Enterprises) is a Quebec government agency founded in 1983 under the name of Société Générale du Cinéma du Québec (SGCQ) (English: General Society of Cinema of Quebec).
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Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec
The (SAAQ) is a Crown corporation responsible for licensing drivers and vehicles in the province of Quebec and providing public auto insurance which insures all drivers, passengers, pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists involved in road collisions whether or not they are at fault (no-fault insurance).
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Société des alcools du Québec
The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) is a provincial Crown corporation and monopoly in Quebec responsible for the trade of alcoholic beverages within the province.
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Société des établissements de plein air du Québec
The Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (English: Quebec Outdoor Establishments Company), also known as Sépaq, is the agency of the Government of Quebec that manages parks and wildlife reserves.
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Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic status (SES) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's access to economic resources and social position in relation to others.
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Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae.
Sources of law
Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory.
Sovereign Council of New France
The Sovereign Council (Conseil souverain) was a governing body in New France.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spoon (musical instrument)
Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets.
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St. Catherine's taffy
St.
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St. Lawrence Iroquoians
The St.
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St. Lawrence River
The St.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
The St.
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St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal
Saint Patrick's Basilica (Basilique Saint-Patrick de Montréal) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica on René-Lévesque Boulevard in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Stadacona
Stadacona was a 16th-century St. Lawrence Iroquoian village not far from where Quebec City was founded in 1608.
State government
A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government.
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Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.
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Statute
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.
Statute of Westminster 1931
The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Dominions (now called Commonwealth realms) and the Crown.
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Steward (office)
A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent them in a country and who may have a mandate to govern it in their name; in the latter case, it is synonymous with the position of regent, vicegerent, viceroy, king's lieutenant (for Romance languages), governor, or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus, or vicarius).
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
Strategy First
Strategy First Inc. is a Canadian video game publisher based in Montreal.
Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
Subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.
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Sugar shack
A sugar shack (cabane à sucre), also known as sap house, sugar house, sugar shanty or sugar cabin is an establishment, primarily found in Eastern Canada and northern New England.
Superior Court of Quebec
The Superior Court of Quebec (Cour supérieure du Québec) is a superior trial court in the Province of Quebec, in Canada.
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Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada.
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Sustainable energy
Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the environment, the economy and society.
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Suzanne Jacob
Suzanne Jacob (born 1943) is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Swallow
The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica.
Taiga
Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
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Tax law
Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a legal context.
Télé-Québec
The Société de télédiffusion du Québec (Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), branded as Télé-Québec (formerly known as Radio-Québec), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec.
Téléroman
A téléroman ("telenovel" or annual drama series) is a genre of French-language drama television series in Canada, similar to a soap opera or a Spanish language telenovela.
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
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The Crown
The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).
Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Thuja occidentalis
Thuja occidentalis, also known as northern white-cedar, eastern white-cedar, or arborvitae, is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north-central and northeastern United States.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
Tilia americana
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.
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Time in Canada
Canada is divided into six time zones.
Timmins
Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River.
Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
Title (property)
In property law, title is an intangible construct representing a bundle of rights in (to) a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or equitable interest.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Topography
Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces.
Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Torngat Mountains
The Torngat Mountains are a mountain range on the Labrador Peninsula at the northern tip of Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Quebec.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Tourism in Quebec
Tourism is the fifth-largest industry in Quebec.
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Tourtière
Tourtière is a French Canadian meat pie dish originating from the province of Quebec, usually made with minced pork, veal or beef and potatoes.
Transcontinental (company)
Transcontinental Inc., operating as TC Transcontinental, is a Montreal-based packaging, commercial printing and specialty media company.
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Transports Québec
Le Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité Durable du Québec (Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility of Quebec.), known by its short form name Transports Québec or alternatively by the acronym MTQ, is a Quebec government ministry responsible for transport, infrastructure and law in Quebec, Canada.
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Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)
The Treaty of Fontainebleau, signed on November 3, 1762, was a secret agreement of 1762 in which the Kingdom of France ceded Louisiana to Spain.
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.
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Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the Thirteen Colonies, which had been part of colonial British America, to be free, sovereign and independent states.
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Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632)
The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed on March 29, 1632.
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Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour.
Tuition payments
Tuition payments, usually known as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in Commonwealth English, are fees charged by education institutions for instruction or other services.
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Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Divertissements Inc., doing business as Ubisoft Montreal, is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Montreal.
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Ulmus americana
Ulmus americana, generally known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm or water elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America.
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Unemployment benefits
Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people.
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Ungava Bay
Ungava Bay (baie d'Ungava,; ᐅᖓᕙ ᑲᖏᖅᓗᒃ/) is a bay in northeastern Canada separating Nunavik (far northern Quebec) from Baffin Island.
Unicameralism
Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one.
Union Jack
The Union Jack or Union Flag is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom.
Union Nationale (Quebec)
The Union nationale was a conservative and nationalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, that identified with Québécois autonomism.
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United Empire Loyalist
United Empire Loyalist (UEL; or simply Loyalist) is an honorific title which was first given by the 1st Lord Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and Governor General of the Canadas, to American Loyalists who resettled in British North America during or after the American Revolution.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.
Upper Canada Rebellion
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December 1837.
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Urban agglomeration of Montreal
The urban agglomeration of Montreal (agglomération de Montréal) is an urban agglomeration in Quebec, Canada.
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Urban agglomerations in Quebec
An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 January 2006.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
Urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
Val-d'Or
Val-d'Or (meaning "Golden Valley" or "Valley of Gold") is a city in Quebec, Canada with a population of 32,752 inhabitants according to the 2021 Canadian census.
Val-Jalbert
Val-Jalbert is a ghost town in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada.
Variation (linguistics)
Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language.
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Variety (linguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.
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Vascular plant
Vascular plants, also called tracheophytes or collectively tracheophyta, form a large group of land plants (accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.
Vegetation
Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Via Rail
Via Rail Canada Inc., operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada.
Victoria Bridge (Montreal)
The Victoria Bridge (Pont Victoria), previously known as Victoria Jubilee Bridge, is a bridge over the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore city of Saint-Lambert.
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Victorian architecture
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.
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Vidéotron
Vidéotron is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services.
Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
Visible minority
A visible minority is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour".
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Walleye
The walleye (Sander vitreus, synonym Stizostedion vitreum), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States.
Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Watatatow
Watatatow is a Canadian French-language children/youth television series, that aired from 1991 to 2005 on Radio-Canada.
Water scarcity
Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.
Welfare state
A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.
West Island
The West Island is the unofficial name given to the city, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada.
Westminster system
The Westminster system, or Westminster model, is a type of parliamentary government that incorporates a series of procedures for operating a legislature, first developed in England.
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White-tailed deer
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.
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Wilder Penfield
Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon.
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William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work.
Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.
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Wolastoqiyik
The Wolastoqiyik, also Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite or Maliseet are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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Wyandot language
Wyandot (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Quendat or Huron) is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known as Wyandot or Wyandotte, descended from the Tionontati.
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Wyandot people
The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, or Huron) are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America, and speakers of an Iroquoian language, Wyandot.
Yves Beauchemin
Yves Beauchemin (born 26 June 1941) is a Quebec novelist.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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Zone d'exploitation contrôlée
A zone d'exploitation contrôlée (in French; acronym ZEC) is a "Controlled harvesting zone" located in public lands areas of Quebec, in Canada.
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1911 Canadian federal election
The 1911 Canadian federal election was held on September 21, 1911, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 12th Parliament of Canada.
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1976 Quebec general election
The 1976 Quebec general election was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
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1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIe Olympiade) and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (Montréal 1976), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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1980 Quebec referendum
The 1980 Quebec independence referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty.
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1995 Quebec referendum
The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada.
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2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (XXIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010, were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University of British Columbia, and in the nearby resort town of Whistler.
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2011 Canadian census
The 2011 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011.
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2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (Сочи 2014), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
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2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics (Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (Pyeongchang Icheon sip-pal), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the opening ceremony.
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See also
1867 establishments in Canada
- 1st Canadian Ministry
- 1st Canadian Parliament
- Canada
- Canada Post
- Canadian Army
- Canadian Confederation
- Canadian Medical Association
- Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)
- Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada
- Constitution Act, 1867
- Department of Finance Canada
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Government of Canada
- Government of Quebec
- Governor General of Canada
- House of Commons of Canada
- Huron North (provincial electoral district)
- Huron South (provincial electoral district)
- John Howard Society
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Member of Parliament (Canada)
- Minister of Finance (Canada)
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Parliament of Canada
- Peel County Courthouse
- Postmaster General of Canada
- Prime Minister of Canada
- Privy Council Office (Canada)
- Quebec
Eastern Canada
- Appalachian Mountains
- Atlantic Canada
- East Coast bias
- Eastern Canada
- Great Lakes
- Great Lakes region
- New Brunswick
- New France
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- The Maritimes
Populated places established in 1534
- Alberton, Prince Edward Island
- Gualaceo
- Ilhéus
- Jauja
- Latacunga
- Porto Seguro
- Quebec
- Quito
- Riobamba
- Spanish Town
- Trujillo, Peru
- Uruapan
Provinces and territories of Canada
- Alberta
- Bibliography of Canadian provinces and territories
- British Columbia
- ISO 3166-2:CA
- Language policies of Canada's provinces and territories
- List of Canada-related topics by provinces and territories
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Proposed provinces and territories of Canada
- Provinces and territories of Canada
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Territorial evolution of Canada
- Yukon
States and territories established in 1867
- Adrianople vilayet
- Aidin vilayet
- Angora vilayet
- Austria-Hungary
- Biała County, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Bosnia vilayet
- Bruce County
- Canada
- Constantinople vilayet
- Department of Alaska
- Diyarbekir vilayet
- Ellichpur District
- Erzurum vilayet
- Gmina Mokotów
- Hüdavendigâr vilayet
- Janina vilayet
- Kalisz Governorate
- Kastamonu vilayet
- Khedivate of Egypt
- Kielce Governorate
- Konya vilayet
- Kumanovo district (Ottoman)
- Municipal Borough of Hornsey
- Nebraska
- New Brunswick
- North German Confederation
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Piotrków Governorate
- Province of Schleswig-Holstein
- Quebec
- Republic of Manitobah
- Russian Turkestan
- Salonica vilayet
- Samaná Province
- Scutari vilayet
- Semirechye Oblast
- Siam Nakhon province
- Siedlce Governorate
- Sivas vilayet
- Suwałki Governorate
- Syr-Darya Oblast
- Trebizond vilayet
- Vilayet of the Archipelago
- Vistula Land
- Łomża Governorate
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec
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