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	Quebec - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		The majority of the population are of French descent, approximately 80% of the population.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec (3322 words)

	quebec
		During the French regime, the fortified city was an important center of trade and development.
		The PQ made French the sole, official language of Québec, and, in 1980, conducted a referendum on negotiating an arrangement for sovereignty-association with Canada.
		French is the mother tongue of 80.9 percent of Quebeckers, while 8.3 percent cite English as their mother tongue.
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/quebec.htm (7499 words)

	The Battle of Quebec 1759
		The city of Quebec lies on the north bank of the St Lawrence to the West of the St Charles river.
		The French had been expecting attacks from Lake Ontario in the West and Lake Champlain in the South and the descent on the St Lawrence took them by surprise.
		The taking of Quebec was the beginning of the end of French rule in Canada although the British troops had to endure a severe winter in the ruined city.
	www.britishbattles.com /battle-of-quebec.htm (2017 words)

	Quebec travel guide - Wikitravel
		Quebec (French: Québec; [1]) is a province of Canada, the largest in size and second to Ontario in population.
		Predominately French-speaking (French being the official language), Quebec is located in the east of Canada and is situated east of Ontario; to the west of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; finally, to the south of the territory of Nunavut.
		One is that in Quebec it's relatively common to tutoyer (use the familiar tu second-person pronoun) for all and sundry, regardless of age or status (though there are common exceptions to this in the workplace and the classroom).
	wikitravel.org /en/Quebec (2057 words)

	Learn French in Quebec City, Canada
		Quebec City, located about 400km from the Gulf of St.Lawrence it is one of the world's most picturesque cities and is the capital of the province of Quebec.
		It is the cradle of French culture in Canada with a 95% French-speaking population.
		Quebec City is the only North American city, north of Mexico, to have maintained its fortifications.
	www.amerispan.com /language_schools/Canada/Quebec_City/3578 (408 words)

	Quebec French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, Quebec French is also used, both in its formal and informal varieties, by sizeable francophone minorities in bordering areas of Ontario and New Brunswick as well as by small French-speaking communities in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire in the United States.
		Quebec French is often referred to as "Canadian French," sometimes by those unaware of the existence of Acadian French (another regional variety of French in Canada) or by those unfamiliar with Quebec's standing as the French-language stronghold of North America.
		Quebec French is not derived, as is sometimes misstated, from Old French – a much earlier ancestor that spanned 1000 to 1300 CE and, in many ways, resembled Latin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_French (3484 words)

	Vive a trilingual Quebec!
		Before Bill 101, Quebec residents had the right to send their children to either French or English-speaking public schools, which owing to a twist in history were generally organized along religious lines.
		French is the rule, however, for all newcomers, from Canada or beyond, until the college or university level.
		Quebec’s language debate stretches beyond its provincial boundaries to touch the core of Canadian identity and unity.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2001_07/uk/education.htm (2015 words)

	Evolutions in Québec Nationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		French Québec was in general geographically rural, economically agrarian and socio-culturally Catholic in nature.
		Since the UN and Duplessis were content to leave French Québec society and culture as it was, traditionally Catholic, and focus mainly on economic modernization, traditional nationalism can best be understood as a response to the Depression.
		Politically, the French are the masters of their house in the sense that they have a near monopoly on the province's political structure.
	www.trincoll.edu /zines/papers/1996/quebec.html (6048 words)

	Sheldon Brown's Québec Page
		We have taken a couple of Hostel trips in the area, first to the Eastern Townships (the area between Vermont and the St. Lawrence, also known as l'Estrie) then to Québec City, and to the Gaspé peninsula.
		Unfortunately, while there is much of the French heritage that has been retained, the art of making good bread has virtually died out, and pasty U.S. style white bread is all that can be found in most smaller towns.
		This is the principal rookery for the Northern Gannet, known in French as the Fou de Bassin.
	www.sheldonbrown.com /quebec.html (1148 words)

	French
		While 30% of French citizens speak English, according to a recent Eurobarometer study, speaking a language is quite different from surfing in it.
		French car manufacturer Peugeot- Citroen recently announced that it is considering joining Internet portals set up by the global car industry for the purchase of raw materials, parts, and so on.
		French consumers, like their US counterparts, seem to be hooked on online auctions.
	glreach.com /gbc/fr/french.php3 (1462 words)

	Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Quebec
		Hebridean Scots of the Province of Quebec Emigrants from the Western Isles of Scotland in the 19th century.
		French Canadian/Acadian Genealogists of Wisconsin Dedicated to research and education regarding French Canadian and Acadian Genealogy.
		Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation This site is designed as a promotional tool for the dissemination of information on Quebec's religious heritage inside and outside our borders.
	www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/quebec.html (1906 words)

	FT June/July 1999: Quebec After Catholicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If de Gaulle’s visit to Quebec in 1967 is remembered as having stirred a crisis among Canada’s federalists, to Quebec’s sovereigntists it stands as a signal event in their collective memory.
		But no sooner had Quebec’s "progressive" priests repudiated one conformity than they fell into line with another, working with the new cultural engineers to produce what is now one of the most militantly anti—Catholic and stultifyingly conformist of Western societies.
		By the 1970s, many within Quebec’s Catholic Church were forced to recognize that what they had really signed on to was, so to speak, their own death warrant.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9906/opinion/jones.html (1573 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.
		Quebec is also the sole territory north of the Caribbean Sea – aside from France itself, and the thinly populated archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – where French is spoken by a majority of the population.
		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 (4330 words)

	Information about the province of Quebec Canada, with a focus on the cities of Quebec and Montreal
		Quebec [Québec] is a province in Canada, North America, bordered on the Southeast by the United States and New Brunswick, on it's Southwest by Ontario, on it's West and North by Hudson Bay, and on it's Northeast by Newfoundland.
		The French lost the Battle of the Plains of Abraham outside the fortress of Quebec, hastening the British conquest of Canada.
		The French-speaking Canadians, who live in the province of Québec, are referred to as the Québecois [French for the Quebec people].
	www.french-at-a-touch.com /Countries/Canada/canada_quebec.htm (871 words)

	Jersey French in Québec
		I couldn't believe such was the perception Quebecers had of a people that, for 400 years, dominated life and commerce in the Gaspé Peninsula.
		Then I realised that this false impression was shared by most descendants of Jersey families in Quebec, who were stunned to learn that their ancestors were not really English speaking.
		In 1840, French was still the official language taught in all Jersey schools.
	tonylesauteur.com /arbre44.htm (584 words)

	French
		Variation in the spoken French of immersion students: To ne or not to ne, that is the sociolinguistic question.
		Thomas, G. The French Spoken on the Port-au-Port Peninsula of Newfoundland.
		Péronnet, L. “ The situation of French language in Acadia ” in Acadia of the Maritimes.
	www.unh.edu /linguistics/courses/790CS/CS_readings/French_readings.htm (2533 words)

	Talk:Quebec - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Québécois French is no more a "variant" form of French as American English is a variant of British English.
		Please correct this wrong impression of our language, French, which is our pride and which we cherish and protect in spite of our being surrounded by 300 million English speakers...
		Yes, in terms of linguistics, Quebecer is a dialect of French -- just as Central French is. As a matter of fact, three different dialects of French are widely spoken in Quebec...
	wikitravel.org /en/Talk:Quebec (417 words)

	Where do you want to go birding in Quebec today? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cap Tourmente - Situated on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in Montmorency County, 50 km north-east of Quebec City, Quebec
		Baie de l'Isle-Verte - Situated on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in Riviere-du-Loup County, 30 km downstream from the City of Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec
		Quebec Trip Reports - a number of Quebec trip reports are available
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/caquebec.htm (895 words)

	Fellowship French Missions - Home
		God is opening doors for the proclamation of the gospel and for church planting in Quebec.
		Doors that were previously closed, now stand wide open thanks to the faithful prayers of God's people.
		See how much you know about French Canada
	www.frenchmissions.org (108 words)

	Welcome to the site of the PRDH, The comprehensive site of Quebec French-Canadian genealogy of the XVIIth and XVIIIth ...
		Welcome to the site of the PRDH, The comprehensive site of Quebec French-Canadian genealogy of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
		The information of the site was updated in February.
		Don't know what I would have done without it during my research on my family.
	www.genealogie.umontreal.ca /en (61 words)

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