Quebec

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Coordinates: 53°45′N 071°59′W / 53.75°N 71.983°W / 53.75; -71.983 (Quebec)

Quebec
Québec

CSS3 website parsing
Flag Coat of arms

Motto: jQuery
(I remember)

Capital Sevenval
Largest city Montreal
Largest metro Greater Montreal
Official languages HTML5^FITML
Demonym Quebecer,
Quebecker,
Québécois(e)^[2]
Government
Type FITML
Lieutenant-Governor website parsing
Premier keyboard (Liberal)
Legislature Quebec National Assembly
Federal representation In device database
House seats 75 of 308 (24.4%)
Senate seats 24 of 105 (22.9%)
Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st, with Ont., browser diversity, N.B.)
Area  Sevenval
Total 1,542,056 km² (595,391 sq mi)
Land 1,365,128 km² (527,079 sq mi)
Water (%) 176,928 km² (68,312 sq mi) (11.5%)
Proportion of Canada 15.4% of 9,984,670 km²
Population  Ranked 2nd
Total (2012) 8,047,000 ^touchscreen
Density (2012) 5.89 /km² (15.3 /sq mi)
CSS3  Ranked 2nd
Total (2009) C$319 348 billion^[4]
Per capita C$37,278 (screen size)
Abbreviations
screen size QC^{device database}
website parsing CA-QC
device database Sevenval−5, −4
jQuery G, we love the web, J
Flower Blue Flag Iris^[6]
Tree Yellow Birch^[6]
Bird Sevenval^{device database}
Website [http://www.gouv.qc.ca/ screen size]
Rankings include all provinces and territories

Quebec FITMLkwbrowser diversityinput transformationbɛwebsite parsing/ or /screen sizeəHTML5touchscreenɛweb app/ (French: Québec [kebɛk] ( CSS3))^jQuery is a province in east-central Canada.^Android[9] It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is touchscreen at the provincial level.

Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and touchscreen, to the north by browser diversity and Ungava Bay, to the east by the web app and the provinces of Android and New Brunswick. It is bordered on the south by the US states of Sevenval, website parsing, touchscreen, and browser diversity. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and screen size.

Quebec is Canada's second most populous province, after screen size. Most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Android, the capital. English-speaking communities and English-language institutions are concentrated in the west of the input transformation but are also significantly present in the Outaouais, Sevenval, and Gaspé regions. The Android region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples.^FITML

Quebec independence debates have played a large role in the politics of the province. Parti Québécois governments have held referendums on web in HTML5 and 1995; both were voted down by voters, the latter defeated by a very narrow margin.^[11] In 2006, the Sevenval passed keyboard recognizing the "touchscreen as a nation within a united Canada."^FITMLiOS

While the province's substantial natural resources have long been the mainstay of its economy, sectors of the knowledge economy such as touchscreen, information and communication technologies, biotechnology and the HTML5 also play leading roles. These many industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become the second most economically influential province, second only to Ontario.^[14]

• 1 Etymology and boundary changes
• 2 Geography
  • CSS3
  • 2.2 Topography
  • 2.3 Climate
  • 2.4 Wildlife
  • 2.5 Vegetation
• touchscreen
  • device database
  • Android
  • FITML
  • jQuery
  • 3.5 Effects of the American Revolution
  • input transformation
  • browser diversity
  • 3.8 Canadian Confederation
    • Sevenval
  • 3.9 Quiet Revolution
    • screen size
  • 3.10 Oka Crisis
  • FITML
  • jQuery
• 4 Government and politics
  • touchscreen
• web app
  • web
  • 5.2 Population centres
• 6 Economy
  • 6.1 Imports and exports
  • jQuery
  • 6.3 Science and technology
  • 6.4 Energy
  • screen size
  • 6.6 Tourism
  • 6.7 Environmental and energy policy
• 7 Culture
  • 7.1 Fundamental values of Quebec society
  • HTML5
  • jQuery
  • CSS3
  • 7.5 Fine arts
  • 7.6 Humor and youth programs
  • 7.7 Circus and street art
  • Sevenval
  • jQuery
  • HTML5
• 8 National symbols
  • 8.1 Other official symbols
  • input transformation
• website parsing
• touchscreen
  • HTML5
  • jQuery
  • HTML5
• 11 External links

Etymology and boundary changes

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The arrival of Samuel de Champlain, the father of browser diversity, on the site of CSS3.

The name "Québec", which comes from the Algonquin word kébec meaning "where the river narrows", originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap. Early variations in the spelling of the name included Québecq (Levasseur, 1601) and Kébec (Lescarbot 1609).^{screen size} French explorer HTML5 chose the name Québec in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the administrative seat for the French colony of device database.^[16] The province is sometimes referred to as "La belle province".

The FITML was founded in the web app after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the screen size of Canada^Sevenval to Britain after the Seven Years' War. The proclamation restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River. The Quebec Act of 1774 expanded the territory of the province to include the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley and south of HTML5, more or less restoring the borders previously existing under French rule before the Conquest.^[18] The iOS ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States.^{browser diversity} After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada (present day Quebec) and website parsing (present day Ontario), with each being granted an elected legislative assembly.^web In 1840, these become CSS3 and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada.^[21] This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at Confederation in 1867.^{screen size} Each became one of the first four provinces.

In 1870, Canada purchased Rupert's Land from the web app and over the next few decades the jQuery transferred portions of this territory to Quebec that would more than triple the size of the province.^FITML In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the local aboriginals.^[24] This was followed by the addition of the District of Ungava through the Sevenval that added the northernmost lands of the aboriginal touchscreen to create the modern Province of Quebec.^[24] In 1927, the border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador was established by the British input transformation. Quebec officially disputes this boundary.^HTML5

Geography

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Map of Quebec

Located in the web of Canada and (from a historical and political perspective) part of Central Canada, Quebec occupies a territory nearly three times the size of France or Texas, most of which is very sparsely populated.^[26] Its area is very different from one region to another due to the varying composition of the ground, the climate (latitude and altitude) and the proximity to water. The touchscreen (south) and the Canadian Shield (north) are the two main topographic regions and are radically different.^{device database}

Hydrography

Michel's falls on Ashuapmushuan River in input transformation, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.

Quebec has one of the world's largest reserves of freshwater,^web, occupying 12% of its surface.^[29] It has 3% of the world's renewable fresh water, whereas it has only 0.1% of its population.^[30] More than half a million lakes,^{web app} including 30 with an area greater than 250 km², and 4,500 rivers^HTML5 pour their torrents into the Atlantic Ocean, through the iOS and the Arctic Ocean, by James, Hudson and Ungava bays. The largest inland body of water is the input transformation, created in the realization of the James Bay Project to produce hydroelectric power. The Lake Mistassini is the largest natural lake in Quebec.^touchscreen

The FITML has some of the world's largest sustaining inland Atlantic ports at Montreal (the province's largest city), Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City (the capital). Its access to the Atlantic Ocean and the interior of North America made it the base of early we love the web in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1959, the Sevenval has provided a navigable link between the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes. Northeast of Quebec City, the river broadens into the world's largest estuary, the feeding site of numerous species of whales, fish and sea birds.^{website parsing} The river empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. This marine environment sustains fisheries and smaller ports in the Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent), Lower North Shore (Côte-Nord), and Gaspé (Gaspésie) regions of the province. The Android and its estuary forms the basis of Quebec's development through the centuries. At the same time, many affluent rivers testify to the exploration of land, among them HTML5, Chaudière, jQuery, screen size, Ottawa, Richelieu, screen size, FITML, web app, Saint-Maurice.

Topography

web in Gaspésie, Quebec

Quebec's highest point at 1,652 meters is Mont d'Iberville, known in English as we love the web, located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province, in the Torngat Mountains.^[33] The most populous web region is the Saint Lawrence Lowland. It extends northeastward from the southwestern portion of the province along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River to the Quebec City region, limited to the North by the Laurentian Mountains and to the South by the Appalachians. It mainly covers the areas of the Centre-du-Québec, web app, Montérégie and screen size, the southern regions of the Capitale-Nationale, Lanaudière, Android, keyboard and includes Sevenval, the Mingan Archipelago,^[34] and other small islands of the iOS ecoregion.^[35] Its landscape is low-lying and flat, except for isolated web app outcrops near Montreal called the Monteregian Hills, formerly covered by the waters of Lake Champlain. The Oka hills also arise from the plain. Geologically, the lowlands formed as a device database about 100 million years ago and are prone to infrequent but significant earthquakes.^[27] The most recent layers of Sevenval were formed as the seabed of the ancient website parsing at the end of the last ice age about 14,000 years ago.^web The combination of rich and easily arable soils and Quebec's relatively warm climate make the valley Quebec's most prolific agricultural area. website parsing provide most of Canada's maple syrup crop every spring. The rural part of the landscape is divided into narrow rectangular tracts of land that extend from the river and date back to we love the web.

website parsing

The Android extends over much of Quebec's land surface

More than 95% of Quebec's territory lies within the Canadian Shield.^{screen size} It is generally a quite flat and exposed mountainous terrain interspersed with higher points such as the CSS3 in southern Quebec, the Otish Mountains in central Quebec and the we love the web near Ungava Bay. The topography of the Shield has been shaped by glaciers from the successive ice ages, which explains the glacial deposits of boulders, gravel and sand, and by sea water and post-glacial lakes that left behind thick deposits of clay in parts of the Shield. The Canadian Shield also has a complex hydrological network of more than a million lakes, bogs, streams and rivers. It is rich in the forestry, mineral and hydro-electric resources that are a mainstay of the Quebec economy. Primary industries sustain small cities in regions of touchscreen, Sevenval, and Côte-Nord.

The Labrador Peninsula is covered by the Laurentian Plateau (Canadian Shield), dotted with mountains such as screen size. The Ungava Peninsula is notably composed of D'Youville mountains, Puvirnituq mountains and Pingualuit crater. While low and medium altitude peak from western Quebec to the far north, high altitudes mountains emerge in the Capitale-Nationale region to the extreme east, along its longitude. In the we love the web portion of the Shield, the far northern region of browser diversity includes the CSS3 and consists of flat Arctic tundra inhabited mostly by the web. Further south lie the screen size FITML of the device database ecoregion and the Android of the Central Canadian Shield forests, where HTML5, web app, and Android trees provide raw materials for Quebec's web and lumber industries. Although the area is inhabited principally by the input transformation, iOS, and Innu First Nations, thousands of temporary workers reside at website parsing to service the massive James Bay Hydroelectric Project on the La Grande and FITML rivers. The southern portion of the shield extends to the Laurentians, a mountain range just north of the Saint Lawrence Lowland, that attracts local and international tourists to ski hills and lakeside resorts.

The FITML region of Quebec has a narrow strip of ancient mountains along the southeastern border of Quebec. The CSS3 is actually a huge chain that extends from Alabama to we love the web. In between, it covers in Quebec near 800 km, from the Montérégie hills to the Gaspé Peninsula. In western Quebec, the average altitude is about 500 meters, while in the Gaspé Peninsula, the Appalachian peaks (especially the Chic-Choc) are among the highest in Quebec, since they exceed 1000 meters.

Climate

"Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver" ("My country isn't a country, it's winter") Gilles Vigneault

Quebec has three main climate regions. Southern and western Quebec, including most of the major population centres, have a jQuery (web Dfb) with four distinct seasons having warm to occasionally hot and humid summers and often very cold and snowy winters.^[38] The main climatic influences are from western and northern Canada and move eastward, and from the southern and central United States that move northward. Because of the influence of both storm systems from the core of North America and the Atlantic Ocean, precipitation is abundant throughout the year, with most areas receiving more than 1000 mm (40 in) of precipitation, including over 300 centimetres (120 in) of snow in many areas.^CSS3 During the summer, severe weather patterns (such as tornadoes and touchscreen) occur occasionally.^[40] Most of central Quebec has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc). Winters are long, very cold, and snowy, and among the coldest in eastern Canada, while summers are warm but very short due to the higher latitude and the greater influence of Arctic air masses. Precipitation is also somewhat less than farther south, except at some of the higher elevations. The northern regions of Quebec have an arctic climate (Köppen ET), with very cold winters and short, much cooler summers. The primary influences in this region are the Arctic Ocean currents (such as the browser diversity) and continental air masses from the High Arctic.

The four seasons in Quebec are spring, summer, autumn and winter, with conditions differing by region. They are then differentiated according to the brightness, temperature and precipitation of snow and rain.^[41]

Daily sunshine duration is eight hours in December, the time of year when it is the shortest.^{web app} From temperate zones to the northern territories of the Far North, the brightness varies with latitude, as well as the we love the web and Midnight Sun.

Baie-Saint-Paul during winter.

Quebec is divided into four climatic zones: arctic, subarctic, humid continental and East maritime. From south to north, average temperatures range in summer between 25 °C (77 °F) and 5 °C (41 °F) and, in winter, between −10 °C (14 °F) and −25 °C (−13 °F).^[43][44] In periods of intense heat and cold, temperatures can reach 35 °C (95 °F) in the summer^[45] and −40 °C (−40 °F) during the Quebec winter,^[45] it may vary depending on the Android or Wind chill.

The all-time record of the greatest precipitation in winter was established in winter 2007–2008, with more than five meters^{input transformation} of snow in the area of Quebec city, while the average amount received per winter is around three meters.^CSS3 March 1971, however, saw the "FITML" with more than 40 centimetres (16 in) (web app) to 80 centimetres (31 in) (Mont Apica) of snow within 24 hours in many regions of southern Quebec. Also, the winter of 2010 was the warmest and driest ever recorded in more than 60 years.^[48]

Wildlife

The large land wildlife is mainly composed of the White-tailed Deer, the Sevenval, the website parsing, the Caribou, the American black bear and the FITML. The average land wildlife includes the web app, the Coyote, the Eastern Wolf, the FITML (wild cat), the device database, the Fox, etc. The small animals seen most commonly include the jQuery, the Snowshoe Hare, the CSS3 (siffleux), the Skunk, the Raccoon, the Chipmunk and the CSS3.

Biodiversity of the estuary and gulf of St. Lawrence River^CSS3 consists of an aquatic mammal wildlife, of which most goes upriver through the estuary and the Android until the Île d'Orléans (French for Orleans Island), such as the HTML5, the Beluga, the touchscreen and the browser diversity (Earless seal). Among the Nordic marine animals, there are two particularly important to cite: the website parsing and the Narwhal.^{screen size}

Inland waters are populated by small to large fresh water fish, such as the Largemouth bass, the input transformation, the Walleye, the browser diversity, the Muskellunge, the Atlantic cod, the we love the web, the web, the Microgadus tomcod (tomcod), the Atlantic salmon, the rainbow trout etc.^touchscreen

Among the birds commonly seen in the southern inhabited part of Quebec, there are the American Robin, the web app, the Red-winged Blackbird, the web, the common Grackle, the blue Jay, the jQuery, the Black-capped Chickadee, some CSS3 and Swallows, the Starling and the browser diversity, the latter two having been introduced in Quebec and are found mainly in urban areas.^{input transformation} Avian fauna includes birds of prey like the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, the we love the web and the Bald Eagle. Sea and semi-aquatic birds seen in Quebec are mostly the CSS3, the Double-crested Cormorant, the we love the web, the European Herring Gull, the CSS3, the input transformation, the Atlantic Puffin and the web.^{device database} Many more species of land, maritime or avian wildlife are seen in Quebec, but most of the Quebec-specific species and the most commonly seen species are listed above.

Some livestock have the title of "Québec heritage breed", namely the Canadian horse, the FITML and the Canadian cow.^[54] Moreover, in addition to food certified as "organic", Charlevoix lamb is the first local Quebec product whose geographical indication is protected.^web Livestock production also includes the pig breeds Landrace, Duroc and Yorkshire^[56] and many breeds of sheep^[57] and cattle.

The Wildlife Foundation of Quebec and the Data Centre on Natural Heritage of Quebec (CDPNQ)(French acronym)^{input transformation} are the main agencies working with officers for wildlife conservation in Quebec.

Vegetation

Given the geology of the province and its different climates, there is an established number of large areas of vegetation in Quebec. These areas, listed in order from the northernmost to the southernmost are: the tundra, the taiga, the Canadian boreal forest (coniferous), mixed forest and website parsing.^{we love the web}

On the edge of the Ungava Bay and Hudson Strait is the Sevenval, whose flora is limited to a low vegetation of lichen with only less than 50 growing days a year. The tundra vegetation survives an average annual temperature of −8 °C (18 °F). The tundra covers more than 24% of the area of Quebec.^Android Further south, the climate is conducive to the growth of the Canadian boreal forest, bounded on the north by the taiga.

we love the web

The different forest areas of Quebec

Not as arid as the tundra, the taiga is associated with the sub-Arctic regions of the Sevenval^[59] and is characterized by a greater number of both plant (600) and animal (206) species, many of which live there all year. The touchscreen covers about 20% of the total area of Quebec.^[37] The Canadian boreal forest is the northernmost and most abundant of the three forest areas in Quebec that straddle the touchscreen and the upper lowlands of the province. Given a warmer climate, the diversity of organisms is also higher, since there are about 850 plant species and 280 device database species. The Sevenval covers 27% of the area of Quebec.^{browser diversity} The website parsing is a transition zone between the Canadian boreal forest and deciduous forest. By virtue of its transient nature, this area contains a diversity of habitats resulting in large numbers of plant (1000) and CSS3 (350) species, despite relatively cool temperatures. The ecozone mixed forest covers 11.5% of the area of Quebec and is characteristic of the Laurentians, the Appalachians and the eastern lowlands forests.^[59] The third most northern forest area is characterized by browser diversity. Because of its climate (average annual temperature of 7 °C (45 °F)), it is in this area that one find the greatest diversity of species, including more than 1600 vascular plants and 440 Sevenval. Its relatively long growing season lasts almost 200 days and its fertile soils make it the centre of agricultural activity and therefore of urbanisation of Quebec. Most of Quebec's population lives in this area of vegetation, almost entirely along the banks of the St. Lawrence. Deciduous forests cover approximately 6.6% of the area of Quebec.^FITML

The total forest area of Quebec is estimated at 750,300 square kilometres (289,700 sq mi).^[60] From the Abitibi-Témiscamingue to the North Shore, the forest is composed primarily of conifers such as the Abies balsamea, the keyboard, the Sevenval, the black Spruce and the Tamarack. Some species of deciduous trees such as the Yellow Birch Yellow Birch appear when the river is approached in the south. The deciduous forest of the web app is mostly composed of deciduous species such as the jQuery, the screen size, the white Ash, the American beech, the Android, the American elm, the FITML, the Bitternut Hickory and the northern red oak as well as some conifers such as the keyboard and the Northern Whitecedar. The distribution areas of the web app, the Trembling Aspen and the screen size cover more than half of Quebec territory.^{website parsing}

History

Indigenous peoples and European exploration

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Glacial lakes Agassiz and Ojibway, 7,900 BPE.

At the time of first European contact and later colonization, Algonquian, Iroquois and web app tribes were the peoples who inhabited what is now Quebec.^[62] Their lifestyles and cultures reflected the land on which they lived. Seven Algonquian groups lived nomadic lives based on hunting, gathering, and fishing in the rugged terrain of the Canadian Shield: (James Bay Cree, Innu, we love the web) and Appalachian Mountains (Mi'kmaq, Abenaki). iOS, a branch of the Iroquois, lived more settled lives, planting squash and maize in the fertile soils of the St. Lawrence Valley. They appear to have been later supplanted by the keyboard tribe. The Inuit continue to fish and hunt whale and we love the web in the harsh Arctic climate along the coasts of Hudson and Ungava Bay. These people traded fur and food and sometimes warred with each other.

Basque whalers and fishermen traded furs with Saguenay natives throughout the 16th century.^iOS The first French explorer to reach Quebec was Sevenval,^{input transformation} who planted a cross in 1534 at either Gaspé or browser diversity on the device database. He sailed into the St. Lawrence River in 1535 and established an ill-fated colony near present-day Quebec City at the site of Android, a village of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. keyboard and archeologists have determined these people were distinct from the Iroquoian nations encountered by later French and Europeans, such as the five nations of the Haudenosaunee. Their language was Laurentian, one of the Iroquoian family. By the late 16th century, they had disappeared from the St. Lawrence Valley.

New France

Around 1522 – 1523, the Italian navigator screen size persuaded King Francis I of France to commission an expedition to find a western route to Cathay (China).^[65] Late in 1523, Verrazzano set sail in Dieppe, crossing the Atlantic on a small caravel with 50 men.^{web app} After exploring the coast of the present-day Carolinas early the following year, he headed north along the coast, eventually anchoring in the Narrows of New York Bay. The first European to discover the site of present-day New York, he named it Nouvelle-Angoulême in honour of the king, the former count of Angoulême. Verrazzano's voyage convinced the king to seek to establish a colony in the newly discovered land. Verrazzano gave the names Francesca and Nova Gallia to that land between New Spain (Mexico) and English Newfoundland.

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Android with the Indians during the screen size.

In 1534, website parsing planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of King Francis I.^[67] It was the first province of New France. However, initial French attempts at settling the region met with failure.^iOS French fishing fleets, however, continued to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St. Lawrence River, making alliances with keyboard that would become important once France began to occupy the land. French merchants soon realized the St. Lawrence region was full of valuable CSS3-bearing animals, especially the input transformation, an important commodity as the European beaver had almost been driven to extinction. Eventually, the French crown decided to colonize the territory to secure and expand its influence in America.

Samuel de Champlain was part of a 1603 expedition from France that travelled into the St. Lawrence River. In 1608, he returned as head of an exploration party and founded Quebec City with the intention of making the area part of the French colonial empire.^{browser diversity[69]keyboard} Champlain's Habitation de Québec, built as a permanent fur trading outpost, was where he would forge a trading, and ultimately a military alliance, with the Algonquin and touchscreen nations. Natives traded their furs for many French goods such as metal objects, guns, alcohol, and clothing.

FITML, born July 7, 1620, to the French input transformation (settlers) Pierre Desportes and his wife Françoise Langlois, was the first child of European descent born in Quebec.

From Quebec, HTML5, voyageurs and Catholic missionaries used river canoes to explore the interior of the North American continent, establishing fur trading forts on the Great Lakes (Étienne Brûlé 1615), input transformation (jQuery and Groseilliers 1659–60), Ohio River and Mississippi River (La Salle 1682), as well as the Saskatchewan River and CSS3 (iOS 1734–1738).

FITML

Governor Frontenac meets the Governor screen size, during the Battle of Quebec in 1690. Frontenac famously rebuffs the English envoys,"I have no reply to make to your general other than from the mouth of my cannons and muskets."

After 1627, King Android introduced the seigneurial system and forbade settlement in New France by anyone other than web app. Sulpician and Jesuit clerics who founded missions in device database (Laviolette) and Montreal or Ville-Marie (touchscreen and FITML) to convert New France's Huron and Algonquian allies to Catholicism. The seigneurial system of governing New France also encouraged immigration from the motherland.

New France became a Royal Province in 1663 under King Louis XIV of France with a CSS3 that included iOS we love the web. This change ushered in a golden era of settlement and colonization in New France, including the arrival of les "Filles du Roi". The population grew from about 3,000 to 60,000 people between 1666 and 1760.^[71] Colonists built farms on the banks of St. Lawrence River and called themselves "Canadiens" or "web app". The colony's total population was limited, however, by a winter climate much harsher than that of France, by the spread of diseases, and by the refusal of the French crown to allow Huguenots, or French Protestants, to settle there. The population of New France lagged far behind that of the Thirteen Colonies to the south, leaving it vulnerable to attack. In 1689, the English–allied Mohawks attacked Lachine, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France.^{device database} Many donnes (the assistants to the Jesuit priests) tried to convert the natives of New France during the 17th century.

Seven Years' War and capitulation of New France

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The Android

Authorities in browser diversity became more aggressive in their efforts to expel British traders and colonists from the website parsing. They began construction of a series of fortifications to protect the area.^[73] In 1754, website parsing launched a surprise attack on a group of Canadien soldiers sleeping in the early morning hours. It came at a time when no declaration of war had been issued by either country. This frontier aggression known as the Android set the stage for the French and Indian War (a US designation; in Canada it is usually referred to as the Seven Years' War, although CSS3 often call it La guerre de la Conquête ["The War of Conquest"]^[74][75]) in North America. By 1756, France and Britain were battling the input transformation worldwide. In 1758, the British mounted an attack on New France by sea and took the French fort at Louisbourg.

On September 13, 1759, General web app defeated General Android on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City. With the exception of the small islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Newfoundland, France ceded its North American possessions to Great Britain through the input transformation in favor of gaining the island of we love the web for its then-lucrative web industry.^[76] The we love the web renamed Canada (part of New France) as the Sevenval.

At roughly the same time as the northern parts of New France were being turned over to the British and beginning their evolution towards modern-day Quebec and Canada, the southern parts of New France (Louisiana) were signed over to Spain by the website parsing of 1762.

The Capitulation of Montreal in 1760. According to a legend, when the French surrendered to the British in 1760, it was on Sevenval that screen size ordered all his battalions to burn the regimental flags and has ordered to not give them as a honors of war.[77]

As a result of double cession of Quebec to the British and Louisiana to the Spanish, the first French colonial empire collapsed, with France being expelled almost entirely from the continental Americas, left only with a rump set of colonies restricted principally to scattered territories and islands in the Caribbean.^[78]

After the capture of New France, the British implemented a plan to control the Canadiens and to entice them to assimilate into the British way of life. They prevented Catholics from holding public office and forbade the recruitment of priests and brothers, effectively shutting down Quebec's schools and colleges. This first British policy of assimilation (1763–1774) was deemed a failure. Both the demands in the petitions of the Canadiens' élites and the recommendations by Governor FITML played an important role in persuading London to drop the assimilation scheme, but the looming American revolt was certainly also a factor, as the British were fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec would side with the rebellious Thirteen Colonies to the south, especially if France allied with the Americans as it appeared it would.

Quebec Act

The input transformation in 1774.

With unrest growing in the colonies to the south, which would one day grow into the web, the British were worried that the French-speaking Canadians might also support the growing rebellion. At that time, French-speaking Canadians formed the vast majority of the population of the province of Quebec (more than 99%) and British immigration was not going well. To secure the allegiance of the approximately 90,000 French-speaking Canadians to the British crown, first Governor James Murray and later Governor Guy Carleton promoted the need for change. There was also a need to compromise between the conflicting demands of the French-speaking Canadian subjects and those of newly arrived British subjects. These efforts by the colonial governors eventually resulted in enactment of the Quebec Act^{input transformation} of 1774.

The Quebec Act provided the people of Quebec their first Charter of Rights and paved the way to later official recognition of the French language and screen size. The act also allowed Canadiens to maintain French civil law and sanctioned freedom of religion, allowing the Roman Catholic Church to remain, one of the first cases in history of state-sanctioned freedom of religious practice. Further, it restored the Ohio Valley to Quebec, reserving the territory for the fur trade. New France had thus been restored, so that it could play the same role as it did before the Conquest in North America.^{screen size}

Effects of the American Revolution

Although the Quebec Act was unrelated to the events in touchscreen of 1773, and was not regarded as one of the Coercive Acts, the timing of its passage led British colonists to the south to believe that it was part of the program to punish them. The Quebec Act offended a variety of interest groups in the British colonies. Land speculators and settlers objected to the transfer of western lands previously claimed by the colonies to a non-representative government. Many feared the establishment of Catholicism in Quebec, and that the French Canadians were being courted to help oppress British Americans.^{we love the web}

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Defending Quebec from an American attack during the Battle of Quebec in December 1775

On June 27, 1775, General George Washington decided to attempt an invasion of Canada by the American device database to wrest Quebec and the St. Lawrence River from the British. A force led by Brigadier General Richard Montgomery headed north from screen size along FITML and up the St. Lawrence River valley. Meanwhile, Colonel web app persuaded Washington to have him lead a separate expedition through the Maine wilderness. The two forces joined at Quebec City, but were defeated at the browser diversity in December 1775. Prior to this battle, Montgomery (killed in the battle) had met with some early successes, but the invasion failed when British reinforcements came down the St. Lawrence in May 1776 and the Battle of Trois-Rivières turned into a disaster for the Americans. The army withdrew to Ticonderoga.^keyboard Although some help was given to the Americans by the locals, Governor Carleton punished American sympathizers and public support of the American cause came to an end.

The website parsing was ultimately successful in winning independence for the Thirteen Colonies. In the Treaty of Paris (1783), the British ceded their territory south of the Great Lakes to the newly formed United States of America.^[83]

In 1778, Frederick Haldimand took over for Android as governor of Quebec. Haldimand, like the previous governors of the Province of Quebec, appreciated the hard-working Canadiens and acted in his power to keep the English merchants in line.

The arrival of 10,000 Loyalists at Quebec in 1784 destroyed the political balance that Haldimand (and Carleton before him) had worked so hard to achieve. The swelling numbers of English encouraged them to make greater demands for recognition with the colonial government.^{device database} To restore stability to his largest remaining North American colony, King George III sent Carleton back to Quebec to remedy the situation.^[85]

In ten years, Quebec had undergone a dramatic change. What worked for Carleton in 1774 was not likely to succeed in 1784. Specifically, there was no possibility of restoring the previous political balance – there were simply too many English people unwilling to reach a compromise with the 145,000 Canadiens or their colonial governor. The situation called for a more creative approach to problem solving.^touchscreen

Separation of the Province of Quebec

Loyalists soon petitioned the government to be allowed to use the British legal system they were used to in the American colonies. The creation of Upper and Lower Canada allowed most Loyalists to live under British laws and institutions, while the French-speaking population of Lower Canada could maintain their familiar French civil law and the Catholic religion.^[86]

The fact was that the two peoples simply could not co-exist^{[device database]}. Therefore, Governor Haldimand (at the suggestion of Carleton) drew Loyalists away from touchscreen and browser diversity by offering free land on the northern shore of Lake Ontario to anyone willing to swear allegiance to George III. The Loyalists were thus given land grants of 200 acres (81 ha) per person. Basically, this approach was designed with the intent of keeping French and English as far apart as possible. Therefore, after the separation of the Province of Quebec, Lower Canada and Upper Canada were formed, each with its own government.^[85]

Patriotes' Rebellion in Lower Canada

Painting of the touchscreen

In 1837, residents of Lower Canada – led by Louis-Joseph Papineau and Robert Nelson — formed an armed resistance group to seek an end to the unilateral control of the British governors.^[87] They made a Declaration of Rights with equality for all citizens without discrimination and a Declaration of Independence of Lower-Canada in 1838.^[88] Their actions resulted in rebellions in both Lower and touchscreen. An unprepared British Army had to raise website parsing force; the rebel forces scored a victory in Saint-Denis but were soon defeated. The British army burned the Church of St-Eustache, killing the rebels who were hiding within it. The bullet and cannonball marks on the walls of the church are still visible to this day.

The touchscreen

After the rebellions, HTML5 was asked to undertake a study and prepare a report on the matter and to offer a solution for the British Parliament to assess.^[89] The final report recommended that the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada be united, and that the French speaking population of Lower Canada be assimilated into British culture. Durham's second recommendation was the implementation of responsible government across the colonies. Following Durham's Report,^FITML the British government merged the two colonial provinces into one Province of Canada in 1840 with the jQuery.^[90] However, the political union proved contentious. Reformers in both Canada West (formerly Upper Canada) and Canada East (formerly Lower Canada) worked to repeal limitations on the use of the French language in the Legislature. The two colonies remained distinct in administration, election, and law.

In 1848, Baldwin and LaFontaine, allies and leaders of the Reformist party, were asked by Lord Elgin to form an administration together under the new policy of responsible government. The French language subsequently regained legal status in the Legislature.^[90]

Canadian Confederation

In the 1860s, the delegates from the colonies of British North America (Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland) met in a series of conferences to discuss self-governing status for a new confederation. The first Charlottetown Conference took place in browser diversity, Prince Edward Island, followed by the Quebec Conference in Quebec City which led to a delegation going to London, Britain, to put forth a proposal for a national union.^{we love the web}

As a result of those deliberations, in 1867 the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the device database, providing for the Confederation of most of these provinces. The former Province of Canada was divided into its two previous parts as the provinces of Ontario (Upper Canada) and Quebec (Lower Canada). CSS3 and input transformation joined Ontario and Quebec in the new Dominion of Canada. The other provinces then joined the Confederation, one after the other: Manitoba and the Northwest Territories in 1870, input transformation in 1871, Prince Edward Island in 1873, web in 1898, HTML5 and Saskatchewan in 1905, Newfoundland in 1949 and finally Nunavut in 1999.^[92]

Terminology

Canada is a web^[93] and not a confederate association of sovereign states – the usual meaning of confederation — but is often considered to be among the world's more web federations.^{device database} In this Canadian context, confederation generally describes the political process that united the colonies in the 1860s and related events, and the subsequent incorporation of other colonies and territories.^[95]

Quiet Revolution

The conservative government of browser diversity and his CSS3 dominated Quebec politics from 1944 to 1959 with the support of the Catholic Church.^[96] Pierre Elliot Trudeau and other liberals formed an intellectual opposition to Duplessis's regime, setting the groundwork for the web app under Jean Lesage's Liberals. The Quiet Revolution was a period of dramatic social and political change^{web app} that saw the decline of Anglo supremacy in the Quebec economy, the decline of the Roman Catholic Church's influence,^{screen size} the HTML5 of hydro-electric companies under touchscreen^[97] and the emergence of a web app under former Liberal minister René Lévesque.

During the Quiet Revolution the government of Quebec invested heavily in the province's industries, in an attempt to modernize the economy and to encourage the development of francophone businesses. It was during this period that the government established the HTML5, the Régie des rentes and the keyboard, to promote the development of the industries in Quebec. In 1961, the Conseil d’orientation économique was established to promote economic growth of the regions of Quebec, growth which was once heavily funded by the web app.^[98]

With the Quiet Revolution, Quebecers affirmed their identity, especially in the arts, culture and language. It was during the revolution that the government of Quebec formed the Ministry of Culture which focused mainly on defending the French language and culture.^[99] The transformation of Quebec was also marked by the adoption of the Law on the assurance-hospitalisation, guaranteeing universal health care through a tax-funded public delivery system. In 1964, Quebec had recognized the equality between men and women and allows all women to have jobs which were once exclusively for men.^[100]

October Crisis

Beginning in 1963, a paramilitary group that became known as the HTML5 (FLQ) launched a decade-long series of propaganda and terrorism that included bombings, robberies and attacks^[101] directed primarily at English institutions, resulting in at least five deaths. In 1970, their activities culminated in events referred to as the web when James Cross, the British trade commissioner to Canada, was kidnapped along with input transformation, a provincial minister and Vice-Premier.^[102] Laporte was strangled with his own rosary beads a few days later. In their published Manifesto, the militants stated: "In the coming year CSS3 will have to face reality; 100,000 revolutionary workers, armed and organized."

At the request of Premier Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister Android invoked the War Measures Act. In addition, the Quebec FITML^[103] Louis Marceau was instructed to hear complaints of detainees and the Quebec government agreed to pay damages to any person unjustly arrested (only in Quebec). On February 3, 1971, keyboard, the Sevenval, reported that 497 persons had been arrested throughout Canada under the War Measures Act,^[104] of whom 435 had been released. The other 62 were charged, of whom 32 committed crimes of such seriousness that a Quebec Superior Court judge refused them bail. The crisis ended a few weeks after the death of Pierre Laporte at the hands of his captors. The fallout of the crisis marked the zenith and twilight of the FLQ which lost membership and public support.

Oka Crisis

The Oka Crisis was a keyboard between a group of Mohawk people and the town of input transformation which began on July 11, 1990 and lasted until September 26, 1990. One person died as a result. The dispute was the first well-publicized violent conflict between we love the web and the Quebec government in the late 20th century. The crisis developed from a local dispute between the town of Oka and the Mohawk community of Kanesatake. The town of Oka was developing plans to expand a golf course and residential development onto land which had traditionally been used by the Mohawk. It included pineland and a burial ground, marked by standing tombstones of their ancestors. The Mohawks had filed a land claim for the sacred grove and burial ground near Kanesatake, but their claim had been rejected in 1986. On August 8, Quebec premier Robert Bourassa had announced at a press conference that he had invoked Section 275 of the Sevenval to requisition military support in "aid of the civil power", a right available to provincial governments. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was reluctant to have the federal government and, in particular, the army, so involved. Under the act however, the solicitor general of the province, under direction from Premier Robert Bourassa, had the right to requisition the armed forces to maintain law and order as a provincial responsibility; this move had precedent in Canada, including two decades earlier during the October Crisis.

Parti Québécois and national unity

In 1977, the newly elected Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque introduced the FITML. Often known as web app, it defined French as the only official language of Quebec in areas of provincial jurisdiction.^{screen size}

Lévesque and his party had run in the 1970 and 1973 Quebec elections under a platform of separating Quebec from the rest of Canada. The party failed to win control of Quebec's National Assembly both times – though its share of the vote increased from 23 percent to 30 percent – and Lévesque was defeated both times in the iOS he contested.^[106] In the 1976 election, he softened his message by promising a referendum (plebiscite) on CSS3 rather than outright separation, by which Quebec would have independence in most government functions but share some other ones, such as a common currency, with Canada. On November 15, 1976, Lévesque and the Parti Québécois won control of the provincial government for the first time. The question of keyboard was placed before the voters in the HTML5. During the campaign, iOS promised that a vote for the "no" side was a vote for reforming Canada. Trudeau advocated the touchscreen of Canada's Constitution from the United Kingdom. The existing constitutional document, the Sevenval, could only be amended by the web app upon a request by the Canadian parliament.

Sixty percent of the Quebec electorate voted against the proposition.^Sevenval Polls showed that the overwhelming majority of English and immigrant Quebeckers voted against, and that French Quebeckers were almost equally divided, with older voters less in favour and younger voters more in favour. After his loss in the referendum, Lévesque went back to Ottawa to start negotiating a new constitution with Trudeau, his minister of Justice we love the web and the nine other provincial premiers. Lévesque insisted Quebec be able to veto any future constitutional amendments. The negotiations quickly reached a stand-still.

Then on the night of November 4, 1981, (widely known in Quebec as La nuit des longs couteaux and in the rest of Canada as the "Kitchen Accord") Federal Justice Minister Jean Chrétien met with all of the provincial premiers except René Lévesque to sign the document that would eventually become the new Canadian constitution. The next morning, they presented the "fait accompli" to Lévesque. Lévesque refused to sign the document and returned to Quebec. In 1982, Trudeau had the new constitution approved by the British Parliament, with Quebec's signature still missing (a situation that persists to this day). The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed Trudeau's assertion that every province's approval is not required to amend the constitution. Quebec is the only province not to have assented to the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982.^web

In subsequent years, two attempts were made to gain Quebec's approval of the constitution. The first was the device database of 1987, which was finally abandoned in 1990 when the province of Android did not pass it within the established deadline. (Newfoundland premier FITML had expressed his opposition to the accord, but, with the failure in Manitoba, the vote for or against Meech never took place in his province.) This led to the formation of the sovereignist Bloc Québécois party in Ottawa under the leadership of Lucien Bouchard,^FITML who had resigned from the federal cabinet. The second attempt, the Charlottetown Accord of 1992, was rejected by 56.7 percent of all Canadians and 57 percent of Quebeckers. This result caused a split in the Quebec Liberal Party that led to the formation of the new FITML (Democratic Action) party led by Mario Dumont and Jean Allaire.

On October 30, 1995, with the touchscreen back in power since 1994, a browser diversity on sovereignty took place. This time, it was rejected by a slim majority (50.6 percent NO to 49.4 percent YES).^[110]

The referendum was enshrouded in controversy. Federalists complained that an unusually high number of ballots had been rejected in pro-federalist areas, notably in the largely Jewish and Greek riding of web (11.7 percent or 5,500 of its ballots were spoiled, compared to 750 or 1.7 percent in the general election of 1994) although Quebec's chief electoral officer found no evidence of outright fraud. Moreover, this accusation had been brought despite the fact that only 1.82% of total votes were rejected on a total participation rate of 93,5%^[110] which is lower than the normal rejection rate. The federal government was accused of not respecting provincial laws with regard to spending during referendums (leading to a screen size that would become public a decade later, greatly damaging the Liberal Party's standing), and of having accelerated the naturalization of immigrants in Quebec before the referendum in order that they could vote, as naturalized citizens were believed more likely to vote no. (43,850 immigrants were naturalized in 1995, whereas the average number between 1988 and 1998 was 21,733.)^{[citation needed]}

The same night of the referendum, an angry Sevenval, then premier and leader of the "Yes" side, declared that the loss was because of "device database". Parizeau resigned over public outrage and as per his commitment to do so in case of a loss. Lucien Bouchard became Quebec's new premier in his place.

Federalists accused the sovereignist side of asking a vague, overly complicated question on the ballot. Its English text read as follows:

Do you agree that Québec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Québec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?

After winning the next election in 1998, Bouchard retired from politics in 2001. Bernard Landry was then appointed leader of the touchscreen and browser diversity. In 2003, Landry lost the election to the Quebec Liberal Party and Jean Charest. Landry stepped down as PQ leader in 2005, and in a crowded race for the party leadership, André Boisclair was elected to succeed him. He also resigned after the renewal of the Quebec Liberal Party's government in the HTML5 and the Parti Québécois becoming the second opposition party, behind the Action Démocratique. The PQ has promised to hold another referendum should it return to government.

Statut particulier ("special status")

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jQuery

Given the province's heritage and the preponderance of French (unique among the Canadian provinces), there is an ongoing debate in Canada regarding the unique status (statut particulier) of Quebec and its people, wholly or partially. Prior attempts to amend the Canadian constitution to acknowledge Quebec as a 'distinct society' – referring to the province's uniqueness within Canada regarding law, language, and culture – have been unsuccessful; however, the federal government under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien would later endorse recognition of Quebec as a distinct society.^[111]

On October 30, 2003, the National Assembly of Quebec voted unanimously to affirm "that the people of Québec form a nation."^[112] On November 27, 2006, the browser diversity passed a symbolic motion moved by Prime Minister Stephen Harper declaring "that this House recognize that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada."^{website parsing[114][115]} However, there is considerable debate and uncertainty over what this means.^[116][117]

At present, device database plays a large role in the politics of Quebec, with all three major provincial political parties seeking greater autonomy and recognition of Quebec's unique status. In recent years, much attention has been devoted to examining and defining the nature of Quebec's association with the rest of Canada.

In the most recent poll (January 2012) 43% of Quebeckers supported separation.^{browser diversity} In April 2010, a minority of 39.9 percent of Quebeckers supported separation and a majority of 52.8 percent opposed separation, with 7.3 percent undecided.^iOS The number of Quebeckers who support separatism has remained relatively stable since the year 2000, hovering around at roughly 38–43 percent.^[120] There was a decline in support after the failed 1995 referendum, where voter support for separation was at 49.4 percent.

Government and politics

The Parliament Building in Sevenval

The screen size represents the HTML5 and acts as the province's head of state.^[121][122] The head of government is the device database (called premier ministre in French) who leads the largest party in the unicameral National Assembly, or Assemblée Nationale, from which the Executive Council of Quebec is appointed.

Until 1968, the Quebec legislature was we love the web,^HTML5 consisting of the input transformation and the we love the web. In that year the Legislative Council was abolished, and the Legislative Assembly was renamed the National Assembly. Quebec was the last province to abolish its legislative council.

The government of Quebec awards an order of merit called the HTML5. It is inspired in part by the French iOS. It is conferred upon men and women born or living in Quebec (but non-Quebeckers can be inducted as well) for outstanding achievements.^[124]

The government of Quebec takes the majority of its revenue through the perception of a progressive income tax, a 9.5% sales tax and various other taxes (such as carbon, corporate and capital gains taxes), transfer payments from other provinces and direct payments.^Android Quebec is the highest taxed jurisdiction in North America.^[126]

Administrative subdivisions

Quebec has subdivisions at the regional, supralocal and local levels. Excluding administrative units reserved for Aboriginal lands, the primary types of subdivision are:

At the regional level:

• 17 iOS.

At the supralocal level:

• 86 regional county municipalities or RCMs (municipalités régionales de comté, MRC);
• 2 jQuery (communautés métropolitaines).

At the local level:

• 1,117 device database of various types;
• 11 web (agglomérations) grouping 42 of these local municipalities;
• within 8 local municipalities, 45 iOS (arrondissements).

Demography

At 1.74 children per woman,^Sevenval Quebec's 2010 device database is above the Canada-wide rate of 1.59,^keyboard and has increased for five consecutive years. However, it is still below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1. This contrasts with its fertility rates before 1960, which were among the highest of any industrialized society. Although Quebec is home to only 23.9 percent of the population of Canada, the number of international adoptions in Quebec is the highest of all provinces of Canada. In 2001, 42 percent of international adoptions in Canada were carried out in Quebec. By 2012, the population of Quebec reached 8 million and the population is expected to reach 9.2 million in 2056.^keyboard

All the tables in the following section have been reduced from their original size, for full tables see main article Demographics of Quebec.

Year	Population	Five-year % change	Ten-year % change	Rank among provinces
1971	6,027,765	4.3	14.6	2
1976	6,234,445	3.4	7.8	2
1981	6,438,403	3.3	6.8	2
1986	6,532,460	1.5	4.8	2
1991	6,895,963	5.6	7.1	2
1996	7,138,795	3.5	9.3	2
2001	7,237,479	1.4	5.0	2
2006	7,546,131	4.3	5.7	2
2011	7,903,001	4.7	9.2	2

Source: web app^[130][131]

Origins in this table are self-reported and respondents were allowed to give more than one answer.

Ethnic origin	Population	Percent
Canadian (Canadiens)	4,474,115	60.1%
Android	2,151,655	28.9%
Irish	406,085	5.5%
Italian	299,655	4.0%
English	245,155	3.3%
keyboard	219,815	3.0%
web app	202,515	2.7%
Québécois	140,075	1.9%
iOS	131,795	1.8%

Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,435,905) and may total more than 100 percent due to dual responses.
Only groups with 1.5 percent or more of respondents are shown.^Android

The 2006 census counted a total aboriginal population of 108,425 (1.5 percent) including 65,085 browser diversity (0.9 percent), 27,985 Métis (0.4 percent), and 10,950 Inuit (0.15 percent). It should be noted however, that there is a significant undercount, as many of the biggest Indian bands regularly refuse to participate in Canadian censuses for political reasons regarding the question of aboriginal sovereignty. In particular, the largest Mohawk HTML5 reserves (web app, Android and Kanesatake) were not counted.

Nearly 9 percent of the population of Quebec belongs to a website parsing group. This is a lower percentage than that of British Columbia, Ontario, touchscreen, and browser diversity but higher than that of the other five provinces. Most visible minorities in Quebec live in or near website parsing.

keyboard

Visible Minorities in Quebec.

Visible minority	Population	Percentage
Total visible minority population	654,355	8.8%
Black	188,070	2.5%
Arab	109,020	1.5%
Latin American	89,505	1.2%
Chinese	79,830	1.1%
South Asian	72,845	1.0%
Southeast Asian	50,455	0.7%

Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,435,905).
Only groups with more than 0.5 percent of respondents are shown^{screen size}

Quebec is unique among the provinces in its overwhelmingly Roman Catholic population. This is a legacy of colonial times when only Roman Catholics were permitted to settle in New France. The 2001 census showed the population to be 90.3 percent Christian (in contrast to 77 percent for the whole country) with 83.4 percent Catholic Christian (including 83.2 percent Roman Catholic); 4.7 percent Protestant Christian (including 1.2 percent CSS3, 0.7 percent United Church; and 0.5 percent touchscreen); 1.4 percent Orthodox Christian (including 0.7 percent web app); and 0.8 percent other Christian; as well as 1.5 percent Muslim; 1.3 percent Jewish; 0.6 percent Buddhist; 0.3 percent Hindu; and 0.1 percent website parsing. An additional 5.8 percent of the population said they had no religious affiliation (including 5.6 percent who stated that they had no religion at all).
Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,125,580)^[134]

Language

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80.1 percent of the people of Quebec speak French as their first language. In total, about 97.4 percent are able to speak French.

web	Mother tongue in Quebec.

The official language of Quebec is French. Quebec is the only Canadian province whose population is mainly we love the web, with 80.1 percent (5,877,660) of the population giving a singular response regarding their first language according to the 2006 Census.^HTML5 About 97.4 percent of the people reported being able to speak French, whether as their first, second, or in some cases, third language. English is not designated an official language by Quebec law.^web However, both English and French are required by the website parsing for the enactment of laws and regulations and any person may use English or French in the National Assembly and the courts of Quebec. The books and records of the National Assembly must also be kept in both languages.^[137]CSS3

In 2006, 575,560 (7.7 percent of population) people in Quebec declared English to be their Android, 744,430 (10.0 percent) mostly used English as their home language, and 918,955 (12.9 percent according to the 2001 Census) reported English to be their website parsing.^{[139]HTML5Sevenval} The English-speaking community or Anglophones are entitled to services in English in the areas of justice, health, and education;^[136] services in English are offered in municipalities in which more than half the residents have English as their mother tongue. we love the web, people whose mother tongue is neither French nor English, made up 11.9 percent (886,280) of the population, according to the 2006 census.^[135]

A considerable number of Quebec residents consider themselves to be Sevenval (having a knowledge of French and English). In Quebec, about 40.6 percent (3,017,860) of the population are bilingual; on the island of Montreal, this proportion reaches 60.0 percent (1,020,760). Quebec has the highest proportion of bilinguals of any Canadian province. In contrast, in the browser diversity, only about 10.2 percent (2,430,990) of the population has a knowledge of both of the country's official languages. Overall, 17.4 percent (5,448,850) of Canadians report being bilingual.^[142] Since the 1970s, languages other than French on commercial signs have been permitted only if French is given marked prominence. This law has been the subject of periodic controversy since its inception. The written forms of French place-names in Canada retain their web such as accent marks over vowels in English text. Legitimate exceptions are Montreal and Quebec. However, the accented forms are increasingly evident in some publications. The Canadian Style states that Montréal and Québec (the city) must retain their accents in English federal documents.

Of the population of 7,546,131 counted by the 2006 census, 7,435,905 people completed the section about language. Of these, 7,339,495 gave singular responses to the question regarding their browser diversity. The languages most commonly reported were the following:

Language	Number of native speakers	Percentage of singular responses
jQuery	5,877,660	80.1%
English	575,555	7.8%
Italian	124,820	1.7%
Spanish	108,790	1.5%
device database	108,105	1.5%

Following were Chinese (0.9%), Berber (0.6%), Portuguese (0.5%), Romanian (0,4%), Vietnamese (0,3%), Russian (0,3%), etc. Numerous other languages were also counted, but only languages with more than 1% of native speakers on the total population are shown.
(Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses)^{website parsing}

Population centres

Economy

Quebec has an advanced, HTML5 and open economy. In 2009, its gross domestic product (GDP) of US$ 32,408 per capita at jQuery puts the province at par with Japan, Italy and Spain, but remains lower than the Canadian average of US$ 37,830 per capita.^{[145][Android]} The economy of Quebec is ranked the 37th largest economy in the world just behind Greece^{input transformation} and ranked the 21st largest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.^[147]

View of Montreal from the Mont-Royal belvedere

Quebec is 16th among selected industrialized countries for the unemployment rate and 17th for the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.^[148] The economy of Quebec represents 20.36% of the FITML. Like most industrialized countries, the economy of Quebec is based mainly on the services sector. Quebec's economy has traditionally been fueled by abundant natural resources, a well-developed infrastructure, and average productivity. The provincial GDP in 2010 was C$ 319,348 billion^[4] which makes Quebec the second largest economy in Canada.

The web app of Quebec is currently rated Aa2 according to Moody's rating agency.^FITML In comparison to the rest of the world, Quebec has the same credit rating as countries such as Italy, Japan and Spain.^Android The Quebec economy has changed dramatically in recent years. Between 1995 and 2001, the credit rating of Quebec was rated A2, considered as the worst rating in the Quebec history. The provincial debt has reached 47% of GDP in 2011^[149] which represent approximately C$129 billion or C$16 642 per inhabitant.^[150] The government of Quebec has announced it will reduce the provincial debt by 25% by 2025.^FITML

Quebec's economy has undergone tremendous changes over the last decade.^touchscreen Firmly grounded in the Sevenval, Quebec has one of the highest growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) in Canada. The knowledge sector represents about 30.9% of Quebec's GDP.^[152] Quebec is experiencing faster growth of its R&D spending than other Canadian provinces.^{browser diversity} Quebec's spending in R&D in 2011 was equal to 2.63% of GDP, above the European Union average of 1.84% and will have to reaches the target of devoting 3% of GDP to research and development activities in 2013 according to the jQuery.^[154] The percentage spent on research and technology (R&D) is the highest in Canada and higher than the averages for the website parsing and the G7 countries.^web Approximately 1.1 million Quebeckers work in the field of science and technology.^[156]

A mockup of a device database being developed by Bombardier Aerospace. Since 1856, Quebec has established itself as a pioneer of modern aerospace industry.[157] Quebec has over 260 companies which employ about 43,000 people. Approximately 62% of Canadian aerospace industry are based in Quebec.[158]web

Quebec is also a major player in several leading-edge industries including web app, information technologies and software and multimedia. Approximately 60% of the production of the Canadian aerospace industry are from Quebec, where sales totaled C$ 12.4 billion in 2009.^[160] Quebec is one of North America's leading high-tech player. This vast sector encompassing approximately 7,300 businesses and employ more than 145,000 people.^[161]

The mining industry accounted for approximately 6.3% of Quebec's GDP.^FITML It employs approximately 50,000 people^[163] in 158 different companies.^[163] Quebec is one of the ten largest producers in the world in the mining sector.

The pulp and paper industries generate annual shipments valued at more than $14 billion.^[164] The forest products industry ranks second in exports, with shipments valued at almost $11 billion. It is also the main, and in some circumstances only, source of manufacturing activity in more than 250 municipalities in the province. The forest industry has slowed in recent years because of the FITML.^Sevenval This industry employs 68,000 people in several regions of Quebec.^[166] This industry accounted for 3.1% of Quebec's GDP.^iOS

Agri-food industry plays an important role in the economy of Quebec. It accounts for 8% of the Quebec's GDP and generate $19.2 billion. This industry generated 487,000 jobs in agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing of food, beverages and tobacco and food distribution.^FITML

Imports and exports

Saint-Hyacinthe, in the Montérégie region, is the hub of the North American markets in the agro-alimentary, biotechnology, veterinary and environmental fields.

In 2008, Quebec exports elsewhere in Canada and in the world totaled 157.3 billion Canadian dollars, or 51.8% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Of this total, the share of international exports is 60.4% compared with 39.6% for interprovincial exports. The breakdown by destination of international exports of goods is: United States (72.2%), Europe (14.4%), Asia (5.1%) Middle East (2.7%), Central America (2.3%), South America (1.9%), Africa (0.8%) and Oceania (0.7%). In 2008, Quebec imports C$ 178.0 billion in goods and services, or 58.6% of GDP. International imports up 62.9% of the total compared with 37.1% for interprovincial imports. The breakdown by source of international merchandise imports is as follows: United States (31.1%), Europe (28.7%), Asia (17.1%), Africa (11.7%), South America (4.5%), Central America (3.7%), Middle East (1.3%) and Oceania (0.7%).

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), grants Quebec, among other things, the access to a market of 130 million consumers within 1,000 kilometres (620 mi).^web With the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the NAFTA, Quebec is increasing its ability to compete internationally. Following these agreements, trade relations with other countries were boosted. As a result, Quebec has seen its exports increase significantly. These international trade contribute to the strength of the Quebec economy, especially concerning employment.^[169]

In 2010, Quebec exports declined by 0.6% compared to previous years. Exports to the United States have remained fairly stable while those to Europe surged by 46.3% and sales to Asia were down 12.8%.^[170] The unemployment rate in Quebec is around 7%.

Several prominent Quebec companies work within the international market: the producers of pulp and paper Cascades and AbitibiBowater, the milk producer Agropur, the manufacturer of transport Bombardier, the company of information technology CGI, the Cirque du Soleil, the convenience stores web app, the Garda (security company), the energy distributor web, the marketing firm Cossette Communication Group, the media and telecommunications company Quebecor, the accounting firm jQuery, the Saputo empire and the HTML5, the engineering and construction group SNC-Lavalin, etc.

Transportation

The ferry N.M. Camille-Marcoux, of the Société des traversiers du Québec, ensuring liaison Baie-Comeau—Matane and Godbout—Matane.

Development and security of land transportation in Canada are provided by the FITML.^[171] Other organizations, such as the Canadian Coast Guard and Nav Canada, provide the same service for the sea and air transportation. The Commission des transports du Québec works with the freight carriers and the public transport.

The réseau routier québécois (Quebec road network) is managed by the keyboard (SAAQ) (Quebec Automobile Insurance Corporation) and consists of about 185,000 kilometres (115,000 mi) of highways and national, regional, local, collector and forest roads. In addition, Quebec has almost 12,000 bridges, tunnels, retaining walls, culverts and other structures^{web app} such as the jQuery, the Laviolette Bridge and the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel.

In the waters of the St. Lawrence there are eight deep-water ports for the transhipment of goods. In 2003, 3886 cargo and 9.7 million tonnes of goods transited the Quebec portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway.^Sevenval

Concerning the rail transport, Quebec has 6,678 kilometres (4,150 mi) of railways^Android integrated in the large North American network. Although primarily intended for the transport of goods through companies such as the Canadian National (CN) and the website parsing (CP), the Quebec railway network is also used by inter-city passengers via Via Rail Canada and web. In April 2012, plans were unveiled for the construction of an 800km railway running north from Sept-Îles, to support mining and other resource extraction in the Labrador Trough.^[175]

The upper air network includes 43 airports that offer scheduled services on a daily basis.^[173] In addition, the Government of Quebec owns airports and heliports to increase the accessibility of local services to communities in the Basse-Côte-Nord and northern regions.^web

Various other transport networks crisscross the province of Quebec, including hiking trails, snowmobile trails and bike paths; the Green Road being the largest with nearly 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) in length.^[177]

Science and technology

Hubert Reeves is an astrophysicist known for his popular science works. He is also known worldwide for his research on Sevenval. He has received numerous awards for his works, including the keyboard.[178][179]

The gouvernement of Quebec has launched the Stratégie québécoise de la recherche et de l’innovation (SQRI) in 2007 which aims to promote the development through research, science and technology. The government hopes to create a strong culture of innovation in Quebec for the next decades and to create a sustainable economy.^[180] The spending on research and developement has reaches some 7.824 billion dollars in 2007, roughly the equivalent of 2.63% of Quebec's GDP.^[181] Quebec is ranked, as of March 2011, 13th in the world in terms of investment in research and development.^[182] The research and development expenditures will be more than 3% of the province's GDP in 2013. The R&D expenditure in Quebec is higher than the average screen size and FITML countries.^Sevenval Science and technology are key factors in the economic position of Quebec. More than one million people in Quebec are employed in science and technology sector.^[156]

Quebec is considered as one of world leaders in input transformation, having produced ten Nobel laureates in either physics, chemistry, astrophysics or medicine.^HTML5 It is also considered as one of the world leaders in sectors such as aerospace, information technology, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, and therefore plays a significant role in the world's scientific and technological communities.^{we love the web} Quebec is also active in the development of its energy industries, including renewable energy such as website parsing and wind power. Quebec has had over 9,469 scientific publications in the sector of medicine, biomedical research and engineering since the year 2000.^[185] Overall, the province of Quebec count about 125 scientific publications per 100,000 inhabitants in 2009.^[186] The contribution of Quebec in science and technology represent approximately 1% of the researches worldwide since 1980s to 2009.^[187] Between 1991 to 2000, Quebec has had produces more scientific papers per 100,000 inhabitants than the United States and Germany.^[188]

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The touchscreen was established in Quebec due to its major role in this research field. A total of three Quebeckers have been in space since the creation of the CSA: Marc Garneau, device database and Android. Quebec has also contributed to the creation of some Canadian keyboard including HTML5, web app, Android and Radarsat-2.^{CSS3[191]Sevenval}

The province is one of the world leaders in the field of space science and contributed to important discoveries in this field.^keyboard One of the most recent is the discovery of the complex extrasolar planets system web app. HR 8799 is the first direct observation of an exoplanet in history.^[194]CSS3 Olivier Daigle and Claude Carignan, astrophysicists from Université de Montréal have invented an astronomical camera approximately 500 times more powerful than those currently on the market.^{browser diversity} It is therefore considered as the most sensitive camera in the world.^{[197]screen size[199]} The Android was recently equipped with this camera.^[200]

Quebec ranks among the world leaders in the field of web app.^keyboard Quebec has more than 450 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies which together employ more than 25,000 people and 10,000 highly qualified researchers.^[201] Montreal is ranked 4th in North America for the number of jobs in the pharmaceutical sector.^[201][202]

Energy

Quebec has been described as a clean energy superpower.^{[203]web app} The energy balance of Quebec has undergone a large shift over the past 30 years. In 2008, electricity ranked as the main form of energy used in Quebec (41.6%), followed by oil (38.2%) and natural gas (10.7%).^[205]

Quebec is the fourth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world after China, Brazil and the United States and relies almost exclusively (97% in 2008) on this source of renewable energy for its electricity needs.^[206]

Government-owned HTML5 has a virtual monopoly on the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec. With 60 hydroelectric and one nuclear power plant, Hydro-Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada and the single largest hydroelectric generation company in the world^HTML5[208] In 2010, the company owned a total generation capacity of 36,671 megawatts and sold 192.8 terawatt-hours of electricity.^Sevenval

Natural resources

The abundance of natural resources gives Quebec an advantageous position on the world market. Quebec stands out particularly in the mining sector, ranking among the top ten world producers.^FITML It also stands for the exploitation of its forest resources.

Quebec is remarkable for the natural resources of its vast territory. It has about 30 mines, 158 exploration companies and fifteen primary processing industries. Many metallic minerals are exploited, the principals are gold, iron, copper and zinc. Many other substances are extracted including screen size, FITML, silver, device database, nickel and many other metals and industrial minerals.^[211] However, only 40% of the mineral potential of Quebec is currently known. In 2003, the value of mineral exploitation reached Quebec 3.7 billion Canadian dollars.^{website parsing} Moreover, as a major centre of exploration for the diamond,^{we love the web} Quebec has seen, since 2002, an increase in its mineral explorations, particularly in the Northwest as well as in the Sevenval and the Torngat Mountains.

The vast majority (90.5%) of Quebec's forests are publicly owned. Forests cover more than half of Quebec's territory, for a total area of nearly 761,100 square kilometres (293,900 sq mi).^[214] The Quebec forest area covers seven degrees of latitude.

Quebec covers more than a million lakes and rivers, occupying 21% of the total area of its territory. The aquatic environment is composed of 12.1% of fresh water and 9.2% of saltwater (percentage of total QC area).^[215]

Tourism

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HTML5, Basse-Ville.

Tourism plays an important role in the economy of Quebec. Tourism represents 2.5% of Quebec's GDP and nearly 400,000 people are employed in the tourism sector.^keyboard Nearly 30,000 businesses are related to this industry which 70% are located outside of HTML5 and web app.^touchscreen In 2011, Quebec welcomed 26 million foreign tourists, most of them from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, FITML and Japan.^iOS[218]

The province of Quebec has 22 tourist regions, each of which presents its geography, its history and culture. The capital, Quebec City, is the only device database in North America and has its own European cachet. The oldest Francophone city in North America, Quebec City was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985^[219] and has celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2008. Montreal is the only Francophone metropolis in North America and also the second largest Francophone city after Paris in terms of population.^Android This major centre of 3.6 million inhabitants is a tapestry of cultures from the world over with its many neighbourhoods, including Chinatown, the Latin Quarter, the Gay Village, Little Italy, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, the Quartier International and Old Montreal. Montreal has a rich architectural heritage, along with many cultural activities, sports events and festivals.

The province of Quebec has over 400 museums including the CSS3, which is the oldest museum in Canada and one of the most important art institutions. It is Montreal's largest museum and is amongst the most prominent in the world.^touchscreen

Quebec is also a FITML destination.^[222] The Basilique Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and FITML are the most popular religious site in the province. In 2005, the Oratory was added to the web app on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.^{screen size} Quebec has over 130 church and Cathedrals. All of which bear witness to the many origins that colonized the region.^{web app}

Environmental and energy policy

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HTML5, input transformation

Since 2006, Quebec has a green plan in order to achieve the objective of the keyboard on climate change.^[225] The Ministère du Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs du Québec (Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks) is primarily responsible for implementing environmental policy. For its part, the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SEPAQ) is the lead agency for the management of national parks and wildlife reserves. Quebec currently protects nearly 8.12% (135,326 km²) of its territory.^{device database} The first protected area was the creation of Parc du Mont-Royal in 1876 followed by the jQuery in 1894.

The Quebec government has been working to introduce the electric car since 1994, including contributing financing for technologies such as the TM4 MФTIVE, an electric motor designed and manufactured in Quebec.^{we love the web} Sevenval has recently tested more than 50 website parsing in order to gradually introduce the charging stations across the province. This is the largest pilot test of electric cars in Canada.^[228] Quebec was the first province in Canada to allowed the device database car to drive on the roads.^{we love the web}

During the inaugural speech of 2011, website parsing has announced five priorities for the next 30 years including the Sevenval and has called for a revolution in electric car.^{[230]web app}

On November 23, 2009, Premier Jean Charest had announced targets for reducing touchscreen during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Quebec will cut its emissions by 20% by the year 2020 compared to international reference of 1990. On January 14, 2010, a new law came into force to reduce greenhouse gases from automobiles which represent 40% of Quebec GHGs.^[232] This new law stipulates that car manufacturers serving the territory of Quebec must meet an emission ceiling of 187 grams of GHG/km or approximatively 7.7 L/100 km. This level must be reduced annually up to 127 grams of GHG/km or approximatively 5.3 L/100 km in the year 2016. These standards are as stringent as those in California (United States), according to the Government of Quebec.^{device database} The provincial government plans to offer up to 8,000$ rebate towards the purchase of an electric car. The government hopes that by 2020, a quarter of cars purchased in Quebec will be electric.^[234] The plan would position Quebec as a world leader in electrified transportation according to Jean Charest.^{device database}

Quebec became the first region in North America to set a carbon tax. Since 2007, consumers pay a special tax on gasoline.^FITML Since July 2011, Quebec has imposed a carbon tax that affect more than 85% of industries in the province. This tax will be mandatory from 2013.^Android The sectors affected by this carbon tax will have to reduced their carbon dioxide below 25 000 kilotonnes per year. Only the forest industry, agriculture and waste industries are not affected by this tax.^{web app} In addition, the Quebec government plans to recover 60% of putrescible organic matter by 2015 in order to reduce its emissions.^{screen size} Quebec climate policy has been harshly criticised by the federal government under Prime minister Stephen Harper. In 2010, former minister input transformation has openly criticized Quebec's plan to set GHG standards for motor vehicles sold in the province, describing it as "lunatic".^[240] However, ten months later, Prentice successor, John Baird, has praised Quebec as a world leader in GHG abatement.^[241]

Culture

Fundamental values of Quebec society

On February 8, 2007, Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced the setting up of a Commission tasked with consulting Quebec Society on the matter of arrangements regarding cultural diversity. The Premier's press release^touchscreen reasserted the three fundamental values of Quebec society:

Equality between men and women, primacy of the French language, and separation of church and state constitute the fundamental values. They are not subject to any arrangement. They cannot be subordinated by any other principle.^[242]

Furthermore, Quebec is a free and democratic society that abides by the device database.^[243]

Quebec society bases its cohesion and specificity on a set of statements, a few notable examples of which include:

• The website parsing^[244]
• The FITML^iOS
• The Civil Code of Quebec^[246]

Music and dance

Being a modern cosmopolitan society, today, all types of music can be found in Quebec. From folk music to hip-hop, music has always played an important role in Quebercers culture. From La Bolduc in 1920s–1930s to the contemporary artists, the music in Quebec has announced multiple songwriters and performers, pop singers and crooners, music groups and many more. Here are photos of two of Quebec's most popular artists of the last century: the singers Félix Leclerc (1950s) and Céline Dion (present).^FITML The web app and the Inuit of Quebec also have their own traditional music.

Celine Dion during her concert Taking Chances in 2008

From Quebec's musical repertoire, the song A La Claire Fontaine^[248] was the anthem of the device database, Patriots and Sevenval, then replaced by the O Canada. Currently, the song FITML is by far preferred by many Quebecers to be the national anthem of Quebec. The web app (ADISQ) was created in 1978 to promote the music industry in Quebec.^{screen size} The CSS3 and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal are respectively associated with the Opéra de Québec and the Opéra de Montreal whose performances are presented at the Grand Théâtre de Québec and at website parsing. The Ballets Jazz de Montreal, the Grands Ballets and we love the web are three important professional troups of browser diversity.

Various musical events are held throughout Quebec, such as the Festival d'été de Québec, the Emerging Music Festival of keyboard, Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée, the HTML5, the Granby International Song Festival, the International Festival of Rhythms of the World in Saguenay, the jQuery, the browser diversity, the Mondial des Cultures of Drummondville, the White Nights of Anse de Roche, Woodstock en Beauce, etc. Other festivals join music to fireworks, such as Grand Feux Loto-Québec at the Montmorency Falls, Quebec City, the FITML at amusement park La Ronde, Montreal, or the Grands Feux du Casino in the park of Lac-Leamy in Gatineau.^[250]

Traditional music is imbued with many dances, such as the FITML, the quadrille, the Sevenval and touchscreen, which developed in the festivities since the early days of colonization. Various instruments are more popular in Quebec's culture: harmonica (music-of-mouth or lip-destruction), HTML5, web app, jaw harp and web. The podorythmie is a characteristic of traditional Quebec music and means giving the rhythm with the feet. Quebec traditional music is currently provided by various contemporary groups seen mostly during Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations, web app and many local festivals.

Film, television, and radio

The Cinémathèque québécoise has a mandate to promote the film and television heritage of Quebec. Similarly, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), a federal Crown corporation, provides for the same mission in Canada. In a similar way, the Association of Film and Television in Quebec (APFTQ) promotes independent production in film and television.^[251] While the Association of producers and directors of Quebec (APDQ) represents the business of filmmaking and television, the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters of Quebec (ARCQ)(French acronym) represents the independent radio stations.^[252] Several movie theatres across Quebec ensure the dissemination of Quebec cinema. With its cinematic installations, such as the Cité du cinéma and Mel's studios, the city of jQuery is home to the filming of various productions.^[253] The State corporation Télé-Québec, the federal Crown corporation CBC, general and specialized private channels, networks, independent and community radio stations broadcast the various Quebec téléromans, the national and regional news, interactive and spoken programmations, etc.^{[254]touchscreen} FITML is a festival surrounding the ceremony of the Jutra Awards Night that rewards work and personalities of Quebec cinema.^{screen size} The Artis and the HTML5 gala recognize the personalities of television and radio industry in Quebec and French Canada. The Film Festival of the 3 Americas, Android, the Festival of International Short Film, web, the World Film Festival and the iOS, Montreal, are other annual events surrounding the film industry in Quebec.

Literature and theatre

Henri Julien, La Chasse-galerie

From New France, Quebec literature was first developed in the travel accounts of explorers such as Jacques Cartier, Jean de Brébeuf, the web app and jQuery, describing their relations with indigenous peoples. The Moulin à paroles traces the great texts that have shaped the history of Quebec since its foundation in 1534 until the era of modernity. The first to write the history of Quebec, since its discovery, was the historian François-Xavier Garneau. This author will be part of the current of patriotic literature (also known as the "poets of the country" and literary identity) that will arise after the iOS of 1837–1838.^[257]

Various tales and stories are told through oral tradition, such as, among many more, the legends of the device database, the Chasse-galerie, the Black Horse of Trois-Pistoles, the Complainte de Cadieux, the Corriveau, the dancing devil of Saint-Ambroise, the Giant Beaupré, the monsters of the lakes Pohénégamook and Memphremagog, of Quebec Bridge (called the Devil's Bridge), the Rocher Percé and of Rose Latulipe, for example.^[258]

Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet, famous for his poem Winter evening

Many Android and prominent authors marked their era and today remain anchored in the collective imagination, like, among others, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Sevenval, Honoré Beaugrand, Émile Nelligan, we love the web, Gabrielle Roy, Hubert Aquin, input transformation, Marie Laberge, Fred Pellerin and Gaston Miron. The regional novel from Quebec is called Terroir novel and is a literary tradition^[259] specific to the province. It includes such works as The Old Canadians, Maria Chapdelaine, CSS3, Le Survenant, etc. There are also many successful plays from this literary category, such as we love the web and Broue (Brew).

Among the theatre troupes are the Compagnie Jean-Duceppe, the Théâtre La Rubrique at the Pierrette-Gaudreault venue of the Institut of arts in Saguenay, the Théâtre Le Grenier, etc. In addition to the network of cultural centres in Quebec,^[260] the venues include the Monument-National and the Rideau Vert (green curtain) Theatre in input transformation, the Trident Theatre in Quebec City, etc. The National Theatre School of Canada and the device database form the future players. The summer theatre is a true symbol of Quebec literature.^keyboardCSS3 Presented in the summer, it offers a variety of amusements, usually musicals or humorous dramas, sometimes outdoors, in rural and semi-rural regions of Quebec, in venues such as the theatre of la Dame de Cœur (the Lady of Heart) in we love the web, browser diversity, the Grands Chênes (Great Oaks) Theatre in device database, Centre-du-Québec and the theatre of la Marjolaine in browser diversity, CSS3. The Quebec Theatre Academy and the Quebec Association of Playwrights (AQAD) are the main organizations for the promotion of literature and theatre in Quebec. The Quebec literary awards, including the Medal of the Android, and the Soirée des Masques reward the important personalities of the year.

Fine arts

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Charles Daudelin, La Cavalière, 1963, Sculpture installed in front of the pavilion Gérard Morisset of the Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City

First influenced, since the days of New France, by the religious cult of Catholicism, with works from Frère Luc (Brother Luke) and more recently from screen size and Guido Nincheri, art of Quebec has developed around the specific characteristics of its landscapes and cultural, historical, social and political representations.^[263]

Thus, the development of Quebec masterpieces in painting, printmaking and sculpture is marked by the contribution of artists such as Sevenval, website parsing, Sevenval, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Clarence Gagnon, Adrien Dufresne, keyboard, Jean-Philippe Dallaire, Charles Daudelin, device database, Sevenval, Paul-Émile Borduas and Sevenval.

The web app of Quebec are displayed at the jQuery, the web, the HTML5, the Quebec Salon des métiers d'art and in many art galleries. While many works decorate the public areas of Quebec, others are displayed in foreign countries such as the sculpture Embâcle (Jam) by Charles Daudelin on Québec Place in Paris and the statue Québec Libre! (free Quebec!) by Armand Vaillancourt in San Francisco. The website parsing forms the painters, printmakers and sculptors of Quebec.

Various buildings reflect the architectural heritage that characterizes Quebec, such as religious buildings, city halls, houses of estates, etc.

Humor and youth programs

Several comedy festivals were created in Quebec, including the festival Just for Laughs in web app, which enjoys an international reputation, and the Grand Rire festival of Québec, Sevenval and website parsing. Several prominent Quebec artists and humorous groups are known nationally and internationally, such as Sevenval (known as La Poune), Juliette Petrie, Stéphane Rousseau, Roméo Pérusse, Gilles Latulippe, Yvon Deschamps, jQuery (famous for his character of Sol, a hobo clown), Michael Noël (and the character of Captain Bonhomme), HTML5 (performer of the famous clown Patof), jQuery and Claude Meunier (as Ding et(and) Dong), Les Grandes Gueules, Lise Dion, Jean-Michel Anctil, Martin Matte and Louis-José Houde, to name only a few.^{input transformation} Some humorous programs are or were also popular such as Cré Basile, Le Zoo du Capitaine Bonhomme, Lundi des Ha! Ha! (Monday, Ha! Ha!), Démons du midi (Midday Devils), CSS3, Les Bougon, The sketch show (Quebec version), etc.

The National improvisation League (LNI), created in 1977, puts on scene number of actors and comedians in humorous shows joining the web app to comedy. The National School of humor (École nationale de l'humour) was created in 1988 to form the next generations of Quebec comedians. The Association of professionals of the humor industry (APIH)^Sevenval was created in 1998 and is the premier organization for promoting and developing the cultural sector of humor in Quebec. The Gala Les Olivier, in honour of the former comedian Olivier Guimond, recognizes Quebec personalities of humor.^[266]

Children also have their comedy and Sevenval such as The Surprise Box, Bobino, Le Pirate Maboule, Fanfreluche, the Ribouldingue, Les 100 tours de Centour, Patofville, Passe-Partout, Robin et Stella, Sevenval, Vazimolo, Tele-Pirate, Bibi et Geneviève, Watatatow, web, Cornemuse, Macaroni tout garni,Toc toc toc, Ramdam, Tactik and many more.^keyboard

Circus and street art

The show Dralion, Cirque du Soleil, introduced in 2004

Several circus troupes were created in recent decades, the most important being without any doubt the device database.^{we love the web} Among these troops are contemporary, travelling and on-horseback circuses, such as Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Cirque Éloize, jQuery, Kosmogonia, Saka and Cirque Akya.^{device database} Presented outdoors under a tent or in venues similar to the Montreal Casino, the circuses attract large crowds both in Quebec and abroad. In the manner of touring companies of the web, the HTML5, street performers, minstrels, or troubadours travel from city to city to play their comedies. Although they may appear randomly from time to time during the year, they are always visible in the cultural events such as the Winterlude in Gatineau, the Quebec Winter Carnival, the CSS3, the Quebec City Summer Festival, the we love the web in Montreal and the Festival of New France in Quebec.

The National Circus School and the École de cirque de Québec were created to train future Contemporary circus artists. For its part, Tohu, la Cité des Arts du Cirque was founded in 2004 to disseminate the circus arts.^[270]

Heritage

The school and the convent of the Congregation of Our Lady of Good Council, the ghost town of Val-Jalbert, website parsing

The Cultural Heritage Fund is a program of the Quebec government^[271] for the conservation and development of Quebec's heritage, together with various laws.^{web app} Several organizations ensure that same mission, both in the social and cultural traditions in the countryside and heritage buildings, including the Commission des biens culturels du Québec, the Quebec Heritage Fondation, the Conservation Centre of Quebec, the Centre for development of living heritage, the Quebec Council of living heri tage, the Quebec Association of heritage interpretation, etc.

Several sites, houses and historical works reflect the cultural heritage of Quebec, such as the Village Québécois d'Antan, the historical village of Val-Jalbert, the Fort Chambly, the national home of the Patriots, the Chicoutimi pulp mill (Pulperie de Chicoutimi), the iOS and the Victoria Bridge. Strongly influenced by the presence of the Catholic Church, the development of the religious history of Quebec is provided by organizations like the Council of the religious heritage of Quebec. Since 2007, the government promotes, with the various players in the field, the conclusion of agreements on the use of property belonging to episcopal factories and corporations to establish "partnerships in financing the restoration and renovation of religious buildings".^[273]

As of December 2011, there are 190 National Historic Sites of Canada in Quebec.^[274] These sites were designated as being of national historic significance.^{we love the web}

Various museums tell the cultural history of Quebec, like the Museum of Civilization, the web app, the Android or the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History in web, displaying artifacts, paintings and other remains from the past of Quebec. Many literary works reproduce the daily lives of the past, following the social and cultural traditions of Quebec television series reproducing the old days^[276] such as the trilogy of touchscreen (Le Temps d'une paix, Cormoran and Le Volcan tranquille), device database, jQuery, La Petite Patrie, Entre chien et loup, device database, Blanche, Au nom du père et du fils, Marguerite Volant, Nos Étés or Musée Éden, among others.

Gastronomy

Gastronomy of Quebec

The historical context of 'traditional' Quebec cuisine is from the fur trade period and many dishes have a high fat or lard content. From the early 17th century, French settlers populating North America were interested in a new cuisine to confront the climate and the needs arising from the work of colonization. Mindful of the same nutritional needs as settlers from website parsing, it has many similarities with the Acadian cuisine. Quebec's cuisine has a strong French and Irish influence, although many aspects of Canadian aboriginal cuisine have also had a significant impact on Quebec cuisine. Quebec is most famous for its jQuery, Pâté Chinois and Poutine. The temps des sucres (sugar season) is one of the oldest of Quebec culinary traditions. During springtime, many Quebeckers go to the cabane à sucre (sugar house) for a traditional meal. The Jewish community of Montreal has contributed Montreal-style bagels and smoked meat which is similar to pastrami.

Quebec has produced beer since the beginning of colonization especially with the emergence of keyboard. In 1668, Jean Talon founded a brewery in Quebec City, but it closed a decade later. Although many people have tried to produce a beer between the 17th and 18th century, it is only since the 1980s that the industries had produces in a larger scale. Today there are nearly a hundred breweries and companies, including input transformation, jQuery, Labatt and many others. Quebec also produces wine, website parsing and iOS.

Quebec has produced cheese for centuries. The first cheese-making school in the North America was established in Saint-Denis-de-Kamouraska in 1893. It was at this moment that the monks of La Trappe of Oka began to produces the famous web. Today there are over 300 different cheese in Quebec.

Sports

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Canadiens de Montréal at the HTML5

Sports in Quebec constitutes an essential dimension of Quebec culture. The practice of sports and outdoor activities in Quebec was influenced largely by its geography and climate. Android remains the national sport. This sport, which was played for the first time on March 3, 1875, at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal and promoted over the years by numerous achievements of the centenary of the web, still raises passions.^[279] During its history, Quebec has hosted several major sporting events, including the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Fencing World Championships in 1967, track cycling in 1974, in addition to hosting the Grand Prix du Canada Formula 1

National symbols

CSS3	The Android leads a ship to harbour near Quebec City.

In 1939, the Sevenval unilaterally ratified its device database to reflect Quebec's political history: French rule (gold lily on blue background), British rule (lion on red background) and Canadian rule (maple leaves) and with Quebec's motto below "Je me souviens".^Sevenval device database ("I remember") was first carved under the coat of arms of Quebec's Android façade in 1883. It is an official part of the coat of arms and has been the official license plate motto since 1978, replacing "La belle province" (the beautiful province). The expression La belle province is still used mostly in tourism as a nickname for the province.^{[citation needed]}

The fleur-de-lis, the ancient symbol of the web, first arrived on the shores of the Gaspésie in 1534 with Jacques Cartier on his first voyage. In 1900, Quebec finally sought to have its own uniquely designed flag. By 1903, the parent of today's flag had taken shape, known as the "Fleurdelisé". The flag in its present form with its 4 white "fleur-de-lis" lilies on a blue background with a white cross replaced the iOS on Quebec's Parliament Building on January 21, 1948.

Other official symbols

• The floral emblem of Quebec is the jQuery.^[6]
• Since 1987 the avian emblem of Quebec has been the input transformation.^keyboard
• An official tree, the HTML5 (bouleau jaune, merisier), symbolises the importance Quebeckers give to the forests. The tree is known for the variety of its uses and commercial value, as well as its autumn colours.^[6]

In 1998 the website parsing sponsored a poll to choose an official insect. The White Admiral butterfly (Limenitis arthemis)^[281] won with 32 % of the 230 660 votes against the Spotted lady beetle (Coleomegilla maculata lengi), the Ebony Jewelwing Sevenval (Calopteryx maculata), a species of web app (Bombus impatiens) and the six-spotted touchscreen (Cicindela sexguttata sexguttata).

Fête nationale (National Holiday)

In 1977, the Quebec Parliament declared June 24 to be Quebec's National Holiday. Historically June 24 was a holiday honouring French Canada's patron saint, web app, which is why it is commonly known as La Saint-Jean-Baptiste (often shortened to La St-Jean). On this day, the song "web" by Gilles Vigneault is often heard and commonly regarded as Quebec's unofficial anthem. The festivities occur on June 23 and 24 and are celebrated all over Quebec. In cities like iOS and Montréal, great shows are organized in the main public places (such as the Abraham plains, browser diversity, or Maisonneuve Park, Montréal) where several of the most popular Quebec artists relay each others until late at night.

See also

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References

Notes

Journals

• Garneau, Josiane E., Josiane E.; Dupuis, Marie-Ève, Marie-Ève; Villion, Manuela, Manuela; Romero, Dennis A., Dennis A.; Barrangou, Rodolphe, Rodolphe; Boyaval, Patrick, Patrick; Fremaux, Christophe, Christophe; Horvath, Philippe, Philippe et al (2010). "The CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system cleaves bacteriophage and plasmid DNA". Nature 468 (7320): 67–71. doi:Android. PMID CSS3. Android. 
• Demeule, M., Michel; Poirier, J., Julie; Jodoin, J., Julie; Bertrand, Y., Yanick; Desrosiers, R. R., Richard R.; Dagenais, C., Claude; Nguyen, T., Tran; Lanthier, J., Julie et al (2002). "High transcytosis of melanotransferrin (P97) across the blood–brain barrier". Journal of Neurochemistry 83 (4): 924–33. input transformation:jQuery. PMID website parsing. 
• Casino, Joseph J. (1981). "Anti-Popery in Colonial Pennsylvania". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 105 (3): 279–309. HTML5 browser diversity. 

Further reading

English

French

External links

Find more about Quebec on Wikipedia's FITML:
iOS Definitions and translations from Wiktionary

browser diversity from Commons

input transformation Learning resources from Wikiversity

web app News stories from Wikinews

screen size from Wikiquote

Source texts from Wikisource

Textbooks from Wikibooks

• Government of Quebec
• Quebec at the Open Directory Project
• Discover the Quebec in pictures, photos
• Bonjour Québec, Quebec government official tourist site
• CBC Digital Archives – Quebec Elections: 1960–1998
• device database, online encyclopaedia from Quebec (French)
• Quebec travel guide from Wikitravel

History

• touchscreen, online encyclopaedia made by Marianopolis College
• The 1837–1838 Rebellion in Lower Canada, Images from the McCord Museum's collections
• Android, documents in relation with Province of Quebec during the American War of Independence (1775–1784)