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  Consumers say 'oui' to Quebec's cheeses - The Boston Globe
Quebecers are near-obsessive about a substance called "daily fresh curds." Found in small plastic bags beside cash registers everywhere, these irregular nibbles of firm, fresh cheese are the dry curds used to make cheddar, sold fresh and unmolded.
Eggena arrived in Quebec 30 years ago via Berkeley, Calif., and Boulder, Colo. He and Tournevent owner Rene Marceau, who founded the cheese company in 1979, were part of the back-to-the-land movement in Quebec at the time, says Eggena.
Made by one of the oldest and best-known artisanal cheesemakers in Quebec, Fromagerie du Champ a la meule, it is a raw cow's milk cheese, with a rich and mellow flavor that becomes clean and focused alongside its high acid content.
www.boston.com /ae/food/articles/2004/05/12/consumers_say_oui_to_quebecs_cheeses   (1198 words)

  
  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
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.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Quebec   (3401 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Quebec Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 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 at once a North American society and the main French-speaking society on the continent.
www.ipedia.com /quebec.html   (1636 words)

  
 Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Quebec (pronounced "keh-BECK" or "kweh-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.
Britain acquired Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763) when King Louis XV of France and his advisors chose to keep the territory of Guadeloupe for its valuable sugar crops instead of New France, which was viewed as a vast, frozen wasteland of little importance to the French colonial empire.
Until 1968 the Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council of Quebec and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
www.indexuslist.de /keyword/Quebec.php   (1459 words)

  
 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.
It was quebec quebec facts history formerly the Madonna la toile du quebec colorimetre quebec lily, to recall the fleur-de-lis, but has been changed to the iris which is native to Quebec.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Quebec.html   (1809 words)

  
 List of Quebecers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of famous Quebecers: citizens of the Canadian province of Quebec.
Lyse Lemieux, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec
Television series about the 100 Quebecers who made the 20th century
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Quebecers   (316 words)

  
 Quebec Resource Page - Quebec
Quebec is also home to 11 aboriginal cultures and that of a large Anglo-Quebecer minority of approximately 600,000 people.
Quebec is the only Canadian province where French is the only official language and the majority.
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.
www.forensico.com /For-List_of_Colleges_Mi_-_Mu-/_Quebec.html   (1826 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Quebec
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.
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.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/q/u/Quebec.html   (1618 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
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 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 an Anglophone minority of approximately 600,000 people.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Quebec   (1628 words)

  
 Quebec Did You Mean quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Quebec City was founded near the site of Stadacona, a village populated by Iroquoians when Jacques Cartier explored 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 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-Québec and the emergence of a separatist movement under former Lesage minister René Lévesque.
www.did-you-mean.com /Quebec.html   (2587 words)

  
 Quebecers least accepting of minorities, poll shows - Ummah.com
Almost half of Quebec parents would disapprove of their son or daughter marrying a Muslim, a federally commissioned poll suggests.
The data suggest Quebecers' intolerance of intermarriage is the highest in Canada.
By contrast, Quebecers and Canadians generally are much more comfortable with marriage to someone of Italian descent: they get a 90-per-cent approval rating in both Quebec and Ontario, and even more so elsewhere in the country.
www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=40821   (663 words)

  
 Quebecers form a nation within Canada: PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Leger poll of 602 adults in Quebec was carried out on December 4 and 5 and is considered accurate to within four percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Quebec insists on institutionalizing the language issue which would be unacceptable here.
Quebec is a lot more French in character than just the language, even if Europeans don't adknowledge that fact.
www.unitednorthamerica.org /post-68011.html   (3807 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Quebec budget provides modest income-tax cuts- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
With opinion polls constantly suggesting that health tops the list of Quebecers' concerns, Audet announced an increase in health spending to $20.9 billion from $20.1 billion.
Like most of his predecessors, Audet singled out the federal government for not being generous enough toward Quebec, whose overall debt is estimated to stand at $119.4 billion by next March 31.
Quebec is expecting to get $9.6 billion in federal transfers in 2005-06, up from $9.2 billion last year.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1114115421150_29?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory   (706 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Quebec (pronounced or) (French: Québec, pronounced) is the largest province in Canada and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,598,100 (Statistics Canada, July 2005).
Fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec would side with the rebels of the 13 other colonies to the south, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that paved the way to official recognition of the French language and French culture.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/quebec   (3659 words)

  
 CEGEP
CÉGEP (Collège d'enseignement général et professionel - College of General and Vocational Education, pronounced see-jip or say-jep) is a type of educational institution in Quebec.
Students in the university stream, finishing secondary school after Grade 11 (Secondary V), attend CEGEP for two years; in consequence, Quebec universities offer bachelor's degree programs lasting three years instead of the usual four to students from Quebec.
Although a French language term, the CEGEP is used by English-speaking Quebecers.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ce/Cegep.html   (159 words)

  
 Child Support Issues — Key Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
QUEBEC CITY - Justice minister Marc Bellemare is tabling legislation to change what he calls the province's discriminatory child support system.
Quebec's birth rate is arguably the lowest of all nations on Earth.
Justice minister Bellemare toys with the dimensions of Quebec's Götterdämmerung, in the aftermath of the war against the family, at the end of the glorious history of a Quebec that no longer is as we once knew it.
fathersforlife.org /child_support.htm   (2852 words)

  
 140,000 voters still need to register before March 13 deadline
Elections Quebec requires voters to bring two pieces of identification to change their voting profile — one with their name and date of birth, and a second with their name and address.
Quebecers are waking up to a minority Liberal government — the first minority in the province in 130 years — and a new official Opposition.
Quebec public health officials are defending their infection-control policies after a scathing investigation revealed a string of infant deaths from a bacterium in the plumbing pipes at a Montreal children's hospital.
www.cbc.ca /canada/quebecvotes2007/story/2007/03/08/qc-voterlistrevision0308.html?ref=rss   (1182 words)

  
 Quebec Holidays, flights, Hotels and accommodation
Quebec (pronounced "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is the largest province in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, second to Ontario, with a population of 7,509,928 (Statistics Canada, 2004).
The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross in the Gaspé in 1534 and sailed into the St. Lawrence River in 1535.
Quebec is also home to 11 aboriginal cultures and that of a large Anglophone minority of approximately 600,000 people.
www.dancinglessonsfromgod.co.uk /quebec-flights-holidays-hotels.php   (1706 words)

  
 Theme
In The Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec, Susan Mann Trofimenkoff claims that “the religious dream was more powerful than the state in the seventeenth century.” She adds: “Without it there might have been no New France at all” (page 3).
The 1800s were thus a time of social stability in Quebec with her population doubling every 25 years—“the revenge of the cradle.” Quebec Catholics were key players in the negotiations for Confederation in 1867 and centers of cohesion in the anguished conscription crises of World Wars One and Two.
Quebec Christianity—largely Catholic—was paying the penalty for being too much part of the status quo, part of “Christendom” wherein the church calls the shots allied to the powers that be.
www.wcg.ca /northernlight/2005_jul_aug/theme_earle.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Quebec ban all pesticides by 2005
QUEBEC CITY - Bowing to pressure from the public and environmental groups, the Canadian province of Quebec said this week it will ban the use of most non-farm pesticides by 2005.
Quebec will immediately move to ban the use of 30 highly noxious pesticides on public lands, including parks, schools, day-care centers or hospitals.
The Quebec decision follows a 2001 Canadian Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to ban the use of pesticides in residential areas.
www.safe2use.com /ca-ipm/02-07-05.htm   (262 words)

  
 Vive le Canada - Quebec told to rewrite language laws
Quebec is legally a part of Canada and is recognised around the world as legally being a part of Canada.
Quebecers are mature enough to respect the rule of law and the rule of international law, and the fact that you and your ilk do not demonstrates your lack of maturity and intolerance for democracy.
As for Quebec separatists, I respect the fact that French is not the dominant language on this contineny, but I think that hard-line separatists usually beat me when it comes to being rude, irrational, and destructive.
www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php?story=20050331193629856   (11755 words)

  
 Boisclair should not disguise referendum as a 'public consultation:' Charest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The PQ leader took a break from the campaign trail earlier Thursday to attend the funeral of former Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard's mother, Alice Simard-Bouchard.
While health care is a central issue, the leader of a party that may play spoiler in some of Quebec's 125 ridings was trying to get some wind in her sails.
The leader of Quebec's Green party said voters are ready to express their environmental concerns at the ballot box.
www.topix.net /content/cp/1251845102221154385223511547941364303019   (956 words)

  
 Whales abound in Quebec's St. Lawrence River - PittsburghLIVE.com
ANNE DE PORTNEUF, QUEBEC -- We were on a little rubberized boat, bobbing in the choppy waters where the St. Lawrence River begins its wide yawn toward the sea, on the lookout for whales.
Along this stretch of the river, roughly from Tadoussac (about 3.5 hours' drive from Quebec City) to Forestville, the saltwater tides from the Atlantic churn the nutrient-rich waters of the freshwater St. Lawrence.
Quebec's weather is notoriously temperamental in the spring and early summer, so travelers should set aside an extra day or two to hedge against it turning foul.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_192850.html   (1298 words)

  
 Edited Hansard * 1245 * Number 041 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Everywhere in Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois, through its members who work hard to defend Quebec's interests, has consulted Quebecers regarding these projections and the use of that money.
Here are the main things on which people agree with regard to the use of this enormous amount of leeway the federal government has over the next year.
First, Quebecers have always believed—and they still do, as shown in the latest survey—it is essential that the Minister of Finance restore transfer payments to the provinces for health, higher education and income security.
www.parl.gc.ca /36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/041_1999-12-16/han041_1245-e.htm   (707 words)

  
 59% of Quebecers say they're racist: poll
Among Quebecers, most (43 per cent) said they were only mildly racist, while 15 per cent said they were moderately racist and only one per cent responded that they were very racist.
Quebecers were asked if they consider themselves very racist, moderately racist, slightly racist or not racist at all.
The Quebec portion of the survey is considered to have a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
www.cbc.ca /canada/ottawa/story/2007/01/15/mtl-racism.html   (1425 words)

  
 Socialist Action/Ligue pour L'Action Socialiste   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Liberal insiders maintain that in general elections Quebecers usually favour one of their own, and there is some truth to that claim -- but such support will more likely come at the expense of the Conservatives rather than via a growth of the pro-federalist vote there.
But today, in the wake of ongoing street protests and opinion polls that show a majority in opposition to the war (especially in Quebec), Dion states that trying to “kill the Taliban in every corner of the mountains doesn’t work”, and that he is not committed to keeping Canadian troops in Kandahar until 2009.
Both are bitterly opposed to recognition of the concept of a Quebec nation, and both rallied to Dion after the second ballot.
www.socialistaction.org /weisleder18.htm   (1402 words)

  
 the_fed_eralist.The Federalist.the_fed_eralist Canada Conservative Canadian Eh
Another group of Alliance members, centred in Quebec and eastern Canada, say the race should be postponed to allow for more aggressive bridge-building with the federal Tories.
Latulippe, one of Day's strategists in Quebec during the last federal election and a national councillor, said he would expect a motion to be tabled in favour of a delay.
QUEBEC (CP) -- Stockwell Day repeated Tuesday that he may step aside this fall but guaranteed he'll still be leading the Canadian Alliance when Parliament resumes next month.
www.geocities.com /the_fed_eralist/cadrpc.html   (21478 words)

  
 Oh Canada. Oh Subsidies | The Agonist
Subtract the 10 Conservative gains in Quebec, move just a few thousand federalist votes from the multicultural ridings of Montreal to the Liberal column, and the result is a virtual tie.
Without the Conservative surge in Quebec and its attending positive impact on many voters in the rest of Canada, pundits could well be weighting the leadership merits of Peter MacKay and Bernard Lord, rather than those of Michael Ignatieff and Frank McKenna this week.
A comeback in Quebec is a probable prerequisite to the return of the party to power and essential to its future as a national institution.
www.agonist.org /story/2006/1/27/85510/5705   (4573 words)

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