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 Quebec Information Center - quebec city
Their activities culminated in events referred quebec map to as the October Crisis [1] when James Cross, the British trade commissioner to Canada, was kidnapped along with Pierre Laporte, a provincial minister and Vice-Premier, who was murdered a few quebec travel days later.
Although Quebec represents only 24% of the population of Canada, the number of international adoptions montreal quebec in Quebec is the highest of all provinces of Canada.
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www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Quebec.html   (1809 words)

  
 Quebec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quebec is bordered by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay to the west, the provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay to the north.
Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain who established the Habitation de Quebec in 1608 as a permanent fur trading outpost, where he quickly forged a trading and military alliance with Algonkian and Huron nations against the Iroquois and the British.
In 1774, fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec would side with the rebels of the 13 colonies to the south, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that paved the way to official recognition of the French language and French culture.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec   (3330 words)

  
 Quebec Encyclopedia Article @ Bitterly.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quebec Act giving recognition to French law, Catholic religion and French language in the colony; before that Catholics had been excluded from public office and recruitment of priests and brothers forbidden, effectively shutting down Quebec's schools and colleges.
Quebec was the last province to abolish its legislative council.
Although Quebec represents only 24% of the population of Canada, the number of international adoptions in Quebec is the highest of all provinces of Canada.
www.bitterly.net /encyclopedia/Quebec   (3092 words)

  
 Quebec Separatism
Quebec was originally discovered and colonized by the French, but surrendered to the English following the French and Indian Wars and Treaty of Paris of 1763.
Quebec society was undergoing considerable changes in the 20th century, moving away from its agrarian, Catholic, and conservative past and becoming increasingly urban and middle class.
Quebec's refusal of the Constitution Act prompted the federal government to pursue what would be known as the Meech Lake Accord, designed to increase the power of the provinces and recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" within Canada.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/quebec.htm   (1524 words)

  
 Welcome to Quebec, Canada
In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that helped ensure the survival of the French language and French culture in the region; since it did not hinder Catholicism in Quebec, it was deemed as one of the Intolerable Acts that spurred the American Revolution.
The motto of Quebec is Je me souviens (I remember), which is carved into the Parliament Building façade in Quebec City (Ville de Québec) and is seen on the coat of arms and licence plates.
The graphic emblem of Quebec is the fleur-de-lis, usually white on a blue background, as on the flag of Quebec (above), the Fleurdelisé.
www.hometowncanada.com /qc   (2725 words)

  
 Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By area, Quebec is the largest province and the second-largest administrative division in Canada: only the territory of Nunavut is larger.
Quebecers comprise the largest French-speaking society in the Americas.
According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official form in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is one of 81 locales of pan-Canadian significance with official forms in both languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec   (4564 words)

  
 DGEQ - History of the electoral map of Québec
The general elections of 1973 and 1976, as well as the referendum of 1980, were held on the basis of this map.
The general elections of 1981 were held on the basis of this new map.
The 1989 general elections and the 1992 referendum were held on the basis of this map.
www.electionsquebec.qc.ca /en/history_electoral_map.asp   (1306 words)

  
 Parti libéral du Québec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the Québec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal dominance at the federal level.
Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Québec under Premier Jean Charest.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party   (1189 words)

  
 Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Elections
The data from the 1997 election study are available on-line; the raw frequencies for a number of variables in their massive survey can be read directly with your browser, or you can download the full data set in SPSS format to analyze on your own computer.
Elections Canada provides the interim election results for the country as a whole, by province and by major metropolitan area.
A clickable map of the 2000 election results is provided by the National Atlas project of Natural Resources Canada.
www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/elections.html   (1123 words)

  
 Defeated by the Parti Québécois - Robert Bourassa: Political Survivor - CBC Archives
Attacking separatism was a strategy that worked for the Liberals in the 1973 Quebec election.
But the mood in Quebec is different during the 1976 campaign, and Robert Bourassa has lost his seat — and the province — to the Parti Québécois.
He outraged English-speaking Quebecers and the rest of Canada but failed to calm French Quebecers, who said the bill didn't go far enough.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-915-5315/politics_economy/robert_bourassa/clip4   (403 words)

  
 Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Quebec scandal lassoes Matane bull column
Chretien won the leadership, of course, but in the subsequent 1993 election, federalist parties in Quebec - Liberals and the Kim Campbell-led Conservatives - were nearly erased from the map outside anglophone-tinged ridings.
Cote quit elected politics with the ailing Bourassa in 1994, before the election that brought the PQ's Jacques Parizeau to power and set the stage for a referendum the next year.
The former political giant in Quebec now finds himself ousted for life from the party that begged him for help in forbidden regions of Quebec, caught up - with certain complicity, according to Gomery - in a web of illegal campaign financing flowing from the sponsorship program.
www.tomifobia.com /black/quebec_scandal.shtml   (805 words)

  
 CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf
Recently, the language police that enforce Bill 101, the Quebec French-first law, served notice on the Sir Winston Churchill Pub in Montreal, the favourite hangout of the late Mordecai Richler.
As a youngster, I was a water boy for the famous Quebec tag-team wrestlers, the Rougeau brothers.
I loved Quebec labour leaders like Louis Laberge and I loved Brian Mulroney, a vrai Quebecer, whom I first met when he was a lawyer for the Iron Ore Company.
www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20030711.html   (1142 words)

  
 Quebec Provincial Election Study, 1973
Quebec Provincial Election Study, 1973 Hamilton, Richard, and Maurice Pinard.
ICPSR NUMBER: 09004 SUMMARY: This telephone survey was conducted a few weeks after the October 29, 1973 provincial election.
Items covered include attitudes toward labor unions, political parties, the federal system and separatism, as well as past voting behavior and demographic variables.
www.bibl.ulaval.ca /bd/sdn/enquetes/e9004.html   (103 words)

  
 History of modern Quebec
It is the start of an incredible movement historians have dubbed the "Quiet Revolution".
1973: Doctor Henry Morgentaler is acquitted in Montréal of performing illegal abortions.
1973: The RCMP illegally steals the list of members from the offices of the Parti québécois.
www.republiquelibre.org /cousture/QUEBEC2.HTM   (2202 words)

  
 QuébecPolitique.com | General Election June 16-July 14 1871
This table was compiled starting from the political identity of each candidate presented on the website of the National Assembly of Quebec.
(2) The use of secret ballot have been introduced in 1875 in Quebec.
Thus, before the 1875 general election, there could not be "rejected ballots".
www.quebecpolitique.com /election/elect02-en.html   (171 words)

  
 Compendium of Election Administration in Canada - Comparative Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Report of the Election Act and Electoral Boundaries Commission: Changing the Political Landscape (March 1994).
Commission de la représentation électorale du Québec, The Electoral Map of Quebec (December 2001).
Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, R.S.A. 2000, c.
www.elections.ca /loi/com2002/comp2002_overview/app03_e.shtml   (361 words)

  
 CJPS/Rcsp : Cumulative Index of the Canadian Journal of Political Science
The Case of Quebec's Municipal Politics / 30 (1997), 513-37.
Kushner, Joseph; Siegel, David; Stanwick, Hannah, Ontario Municipal Elections: Voting Trends and Determinants of Electoral Success in a Canadian Province (Note) / 30 (1997), 539-53.
Macleod, Alex, The Reform of the Standing Committees of the Quebec National Assembly: A Preliminary Assessment / 8 (1975), 22-39.
www.cjps.ca /CUP/cjpscum.html   (16067 words)

  
 POL 211 CANADIAN POLITICAL PARTIES 1998-99
John C. Courtney and David E. Smith, "Voting in a Provincial General Election and a Federal By-election: A Constituency Study of Saskatoon City," CJEPS 32 (1966), 338-353.
Frederick J. Fletcher, "The Mass Media in the 1974 Canadian Election," in Howard R. Penniman, ed., Canada at the Polls: The General Election of 1974 (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975).
Henry Milner, "The Decline and Fall of the Quebec Liberal Regime: Contradictions in the Modern Quebec State," in Leo Panitch, ed., The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), 101-132.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~clarkson/courses/pol211y_bib.html   (12248 words)

  
 François GENDRON -- Member for Abitibi-Ouest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Elected as Member for Abitibi-Ouest in the general election held on November 15, 1976
Reelected as Member for Abitibi-Ouest in the general election held on April 13, 1981
Reelected as Member for Abitibi-Ouest in the general election held on December 2, 1985
www.assnat.qc.ca /eng/Membres/notices/g-i/genf1.shtml   (683 words)

  
 Canadian election surveys
Microdata files: federal election surveys, provincial election surveys,
The 1974-1979-1980 Canadian national elections and Quebec referendum panel study
Quebec provincial and federal election study, 1962 : rise of a third party.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /datalib/major/election.htm   (333 words)

  
 health care polls
"Our reporting was fairly balanced for most of the (1973 Quebec election) campaign, but we did an editorial sand-bag job on the P.Q. (the separatist Parti Quebecois), complete with publication of a poll indicating a Liberal victory.
There was no indication of the number of people sampled so the fact that I consulted only seven people....never came to light."
Newspaper magnate Conrad Black, on his early days as owner of the L'Avenier, a Sept-Iles, Quebec, newspaper.
www3.sympatico.ca /sr.gowans/healthcarepoll.html   (1017 words)

  
 CBC - Quebec Votes 2003
gained, in the west, from La Peltrie, that part of Québec bounded by: border between Quebec and Loretteville, Saint-Charles River, Autoroute Félix-Leclerc, the border between Quebec and L'Ancienne-Lorette and Ste-Foy, Autoroute Henri-IV (4,636 electors)
LIB FERNAND DUFOUR won in 1973; defeated in 1976.
PQ JEAN-FRANCOIS BERTRAND won in 1976 and 1981; defeated in 1985.
www.cbc.ca /quebecvotes2003/ridings/119_vanier.html   (221 words)

  
 Quebec - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Quebec, or Québec in French,[1] (pronounced [kʰwəˈbɛk] or [kʰəˈbɛk] in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Manicouagan Reveals Channel Sample Results From Mouchalagane Property In Northern Quebec - Quick Facts [MAM.V] - RTTNews
Some Canadians have qualms about recognizing Quebec - USAToday
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