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Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
Until 1968 the Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/q/qu/quebec.html   (1038 words)

  
 Quebec general election, 1897 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quebec general election of 1897 was held on May 11, 1897 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
The Quebec Liberal Party, led by Félix-Gabriel Marchand, defeated the incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.
Marchand died in office in 1900, and was succeeded by Simon-Napoléon Parent as Liberal leader and premier.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1897   (138 words)

  
 Jean Charest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jean Charest (born June 24, 1958) is a Canadian lawyer and the premier of Quebec.
Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he worked as a lawyer from 1981 until he was elected Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for Sherbrooke in the 1984 election.
In the April 2003 election Charest was elected premier of Quebec with a majority government, ending nine years of rule by the PQ.
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 Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Quebec (pronounced "keh-BECK" or "kwe-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,487,200 (Statistics Canada, 2003), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America.
The Quiet Revolution was a period of dramatic social and political change that saw the decline of the Roman Catholic Church's influence, the nationalization of Hydro Quebec and the emergence of a separatist movement under former Lesage minister René Lévesque.
Quebec is at once a North American society and the main French-speaking society on the continent.
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 Quebec - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Quebec (pronounced "kwə-BECK" or "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,410,504 (Statistics Canada, 2001), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America.
Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the U.S. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York States) to the south, and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
The provincial bird of Quebec is the snowy owl.
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 Parti Québécois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty association was rejected by 60 per cent of voters.
With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
The current Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, is also the son of Jean Duceppe, an famous Quebec actor that helped found the PQ and the New Democratic Party branch in Quebec (now separated from the federal NDP and merged in the Union des Forces Progressistes).
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 Quebec article - Quebec Detail Detail Motto Capital Quebec City Montreal Area 2nd largest(1st - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Quebec (pronounced "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,509,928 (Statistics Canada, 2004), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America.
North of the St. Lawrence River Valley, the territory of Quebec is extremely rich in resources in its coniferous forests, lakes, and rivers—pulp and paper, lumber, and hydroelectricity are still some of the province's most important industries.
Quebec is also home to 11 aboriginal cultures and that of a large Anglophone minority of approximately 600,000 people.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Quebec   (1671 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It traditionally supports Canadian federalism, as opposed to Quebec sovereignty, and the role of government in the economy, although in recent years its economic policies have moved towards neoliberalism.
The Liberals were in opposition to the ruling Quebec Conservative Party for most of the first 20 years after Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879.
When Bourassa returned as Premier in the 1980s, he successfully persuaded the federal Tory government of Brian Mulroney to recognise Quebec as a distinct society, and sought greater powers for the province in the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.
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 Union Nationale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Union Nationale was a political party in Quebec, Canada, that identified with conservative French-Canadian nationalism.
It notably held power in Quebec uninterrupted from 1944 to 1960, under the leadership of Premier Maurice Duplessis.
The Union Nationale was strongly aligned with the clergy in the province, and dominated Quebec politics during the Duplessis years using repressive measures such as the Padlock Law to suppress opposition and particularly the trade unions.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Union_Nationale   (723 words)

  
 Parti Québécois - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The first PQ government was known as the "republic of teachers" because of the large number of PQ Members of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNAs) who taught at the university level.
With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendmnts to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
Bouchard resigned in 2001, and was succeeded as PQ leader and Quebec premier by Bernard Landry, a former PQ Finance minister.
open-encyclopedia.com /PQ   (772 words)

  
 Quebec Article, Quebec Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Quebec is located ineastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
The head of government is the Premier (called premier ministre in French) wholeads the largest party in the unicameral National Assembly or Assemblée Nationale,from which the Council of Ministers is appointed.
Quebec is at once a North American society and the main French -speaking society on the continent.
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 Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Quebec (pronounced "kweh-BECK" or "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,410,504 (Statistics Canada, 2001), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America.
The Quebec government recognizes 11 First Peoples on its territory: The Mohawks, the Cree, the Inuit, the Algonquian, the Atikamekw, the Micmac, the Hurons-Wendat, the Abenaki, the Montagnais, and the Naskapi.
Until 1968, the Quebec parliament was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
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 Bernard Landry biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bernard Landry, born March 9, 1937 in Saint-Jacques, Quebec, (near Joliette), is a Quebec politician, past Premier of Quebec (2001-2003), and current leader of the Opposition (2003-) and president of the Parti Québécois.
After the victory of the PQ in the 1994 general election, the newly elected premier Jacques Parizeau made him his Deputy Minister, a function he kept from September 26, 1994 to December 15, 1998.
Landry is a Quebec independentist advocating a supranational confederation of Quebec and Canada, inspired by the institutions of the European Union.
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In the 1998 Quebec election, the Quebec Liberals received more votes than the PQ, but because the Liberal vote was concentrated in fewer ridings, the PQ won enough seats to form another majority government.
Quebec: He lost the 1998 election and won the 2003 election as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Jean_Charest   (465 words)

  
 Quebec general election, 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Quebec general election of 1939 was held on October 25, 1939 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
The Quebec Liberal Party, led by former premier Adélard Godbout, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis.
The Action libérale nationale, which had won 25 seats in the 1935 election and then merged with the Quebec Conservative Party, was re-formed by Paul Gouin, who had split with Duplessis soon after the formation of the Union Nationale.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Q/Quebec-general-election,-1939.htm   (221 words)

  
 Quebec general election, 1962 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Quebec general election of 1962 was held on November 14, 1962, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage, won re-election, defeating the Union Nationale (UN), led by Daniel Johnson, Sr.
In an unusual move, the election was called just two years after the previous 1960 general election.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1962_Quebec_election   (273 words)

  
 Maurice Duplessis biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Duplessis' first government was defeated in the 1939 election, a snap election called by the Premier in hopes of exploiting the issue of Canadian participation in World War II.
Duplessis returned as Premier in the 1944 election, and held power without serious opposition for the next fifteen years until his death.
After his death on September 7, 1959, Quebec society was caught up in a swift socio-cultural change away from his conservative, church-oriented policies towards a highly secular, socially liberal welfare state.
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 Parti Québécois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Parti Québécois or PQ is a political party that advocates national sovereignty for Quebec from Canada.
This was cause for celebration among many French-speaking Quebecers, but resulted in panic and a mass exodus among many of the province's anglophone and minority workers and business people.
With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendments to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Parti_Qu%E9b%E9cois   (921 words)

  
 Jean Charest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jean Charest is a Canadian lawyer, politician, and the premier of Quebec.
Born on June 24, 1958, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he was elected member of Parliament for Sherbrooke in 1984 and was appointed to Brian Mulroney's cabinet as secretary of state in 1984.
In 2003 Charest was elected premier of Quebec, ending nine years of rule by the PQ.
usapedia.com /j/jean-charest.html   (191 words)

  
 QUEBEC GENERAL ELECTION, 1966 FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Quebec general election of 1966 was held on June_5, 1966, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada.
In terms of the number of seats won, the election was one of the closest in recent history, with the UN winning 56 seats to the Liberals' 50.
Generally, Quebec's first_past_the_post electoral system tends to produce strong disparities in the number of seats won even if the popular vote is fairly close.
www.witwib.com /Quebec_general_election,_1966   (259 words)

  
 Lucien Bouchard biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was the Leader of Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996), and Premier of Quebec from January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001).
While still a strong Quebec nationalist, he converged with Mulroney on the belief that, with a new constitutional arrangement, Quebec's position within Canada could be improved.
The Parti Québécois (PQ; the Quebec provincial party in favour of independence) campaigned for the Bloc in the 1993 federal election in order to prepare Québec for sovereignty, according to the Three Periods strategy of PQ leader Jacques Parizeau.
lucien-bouchard.biography.ms   (1057 words)

  
 Action démocratique du Québec - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The party was formed in 1994 by former members of the Parti libéral du Québec who left that party due to its reluctance to commit to Quebec sovereignty following the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord.
The 1998 Quebec election gave the same result as before: Dumont was the only candidate from his party to win a seat.
In the 2003 Quebec election, the ADQ lost the four seats it had gained in the by-elections, but picked up three other seats previously held by the PQ, and pulled enough votes from the PQ to give the victory to Charest's Liberals.
en.freepedia.org /ADQ.html   (387 words)

  
 Jean Lesage biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jean Lesage (June 10, 1912 - December 12, 1980) was a lawyer and politician in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Born in Montreal, he studied law at Laval University in Quebec City and was admitted to the bar in 1934.
Lesage's campaign ushered in the Quiet Revolution, which began to change the traditional domination of Quebec's economy by English-speaking Canadians, and the traditional domination of the public lives of French-speaking Quebecers by the Catholic Church was replaced by a larger role for the Government of Quebec.
jean-lesage.biography.ms   (318 words)

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