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  Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Quebec (pronounced or) (French: Québec, pronounced) is the largest province in Canada (in terms of area) and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,598,100 (Statistics Canada, July 2005).
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.
encyclopedia.vestigatio.com /Quebec   (3325 words)

  
 Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language at the provincial level.
Quebec is also the sole territory north of the Caribbean Sea – aside from France itself, and the thinly populated archipelago of St-Pierre and Miquelon – where French is spoken by a majority of the population.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec   (4301 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
election ELECTION [election] choosing a candidate for office in an organization by the vote of those enfranchised to cast a ballot.
Election of 1912 Republican insurgents dissatisfied with the conservative administration of President William Howard Taft
Election 2001: Travelling down the transport road; Mel Hunter discovers transport is a political hot potato in this election campaign.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Elections   (612 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Canada - Elections to the House of Commons
In the ensuing January 23, 2006 general election, the Liberals were defeated by the Conservatives, who emerged as the largest party in the House of Commons, although well short of an absolute majority.
In 1912 the provinces of Ontario and Quebec were enlarged by the addition of areas from the Northwest Territories.
Although both the government and the National Assembly of Quebec rejected the agreements under which the Canada Act was passed and denounced the political legitimacy of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the province was legally bound by the Act.
www.electionresources.org /ca   (2310 words)

  
 Welcome to Ontario
The region was annexed to Quebec in 1774.
Both Quebec and Ontario were required by section 93 of the BNA Act to safeguard existing educational rights and privileges of the Protestant and Catholic minorities.
Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay and James Bay, on the east by Quebec, on the west by Manitoba, and on the south by the American states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.
www.hometowncanada.com /on/map.html   (2332 words)

  
 Reference re Secession of Quebec
Quebec does not meet the threshold of a colonial people or an oppressed people, nor can it be suggested that Quebecers have been denied meaningful access to government to pursue their political, economic, cultural and social development.
The social and demographic reality of Quebec explains the existence of the province of Quebec as a political unit and indeed, was one of the essential reasons for establishing a federal structure for the Canadian union in 1867.
Thus, a Quebec that had negotiated in conformity with constitutional principles and values in the face of unreasonable intransigence on the part of other participants at the federal or provincial level would be more likely to be recognized than a Quebec which did not itself act according to constitutional principles in the negotiation process.
www.urban-renaissance.org /urbanren/publications/QuebecSecession.html   (17637 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   (1305 words)

  
 Quebec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Template:Portal Quebec (pronounced Template:IPA or Template:IPA) (French: Québec, pronounced Template:IPA) is the largest province in Canada (in terms of area) and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,598,100 (Statistics Canada, July 2005).
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.
In addition, the Quebec Ombudsman [3], Louis Marceau, was instructed to hear complaints of detainees and the Quebec government agreed to pay damages to any person unjustly arrested.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec   (3322 words)

  
 Index Le-Lh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Before his election, he had outlined his plans, identifying "poverty and AIDS, conflict and disasters, inequitable distribution of critical resources like food and safe drinking water, and environmental degradation" as the most serious current threats to public health and pledged to devote more resources to countries in which health care systems were facing collapse.
He apparently won the 1919 election, but he contended that elements of the old oligarchy were plotting to set aside the results, and his followers staged a coup d'état to install him in office.
He was unsuccessful in the elections of 1970 and 1973 (although the PQ became the official opposition party in Quebec in the latter year) but in 1976 his party won control of the provincial National Assembly and he became premier.
www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexl2.html   (13136 words)

  
 The Labrador Boundary Dispute
Purported to extend the boundaries of Quebec to incorporate territory south of the the Grand (Hamilton, Churchill) River attributed to Newfoundland by the Acts of 1809 and 1825.
Purported to extend the boundaries of Quebec to incorporate territory attributed to Newfoundland by the Acts of 1809 and 1825.
Henri Dorion chaired a Quebec government commission in the late 1960s and early 1970s that concluded there was no legal recourse by which Quebec could re-open the Labrador boundary issue.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/3330/constitution/labr.htm   (570 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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).
Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain who established the Habitation de Quebec in 1608 as a permanent fur trading outpost.
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.
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In 1838, he was Governor General and in his report on Canada in 1839, he advocated the union of Upper and Lower Canada which was accepted in 1841.
He was Mayor of Quebec in 1856 and Solicitor-General in the coalition ministry that achieved Confederation.
Secession for Quebec was voted down under Prime Minister Trudeau’s reign and as a consequence, Lévesque demanded enhanced political powers for his province.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Legislative elections in November 1958 assured a majority for the new Gaullist party (the Union for the New Republic) and other supporters of de Gaulle, and in December 1958 he was elected president of the Fifth Republic by a 78% vote of the electoral college.
He proposed that the constitution be amended to permit election of the president of the republic by direct popular vote.
In the election of June 1968, de Gaulle, effectively using the threat of a Communist takeover and gaining the support of many Frenchmen who were frightened by the student excesses, won a landslide victory for his regime.
gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_degaulle.html   (2175 words)

  
 Political Archive-Revolution
In July, General George Washington arrived in Massachusetts to formally assume command of the new Continental Army.
The American invasion of Canada launched in September ended with defeat on December 31 in the Battle of Quebec.
In March 1776, General Washington forced the British out of Boston with siege guns moved from Fort Ticonderoga, and then pursued the British as they moved their forces to New York.
www.eagleton.rutgers.edu /e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Declaration.htm   (311 words)

  
 English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
In general, the cut-off point for ages is the end of August, so all children must be of a particular age on the 1st of September in order to begin class that month.
The new generation of historians (who are commonly called 'Revisionists') have discredited large sections of the Whig and Marxist interpretations of the war.
Also known generally as the common law (as opposed to civil law), it was exported to Commonwealth countries while the British Empire was established and maintained, and persisted after the Bristish withdrew or were expelled, to form the basis of the jurisprudence of many of those countries.
www.websters-online-dictionary.net /definition/english...   (14524 words)

  
 quebec
Annual generation of solid wastes is about 5.4 million tons, or 0.8 tons per person; Québec produces about 22.2 percent of Canada's hazardous waste.
The most recent general election was held on 1 December 1998, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 75 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Quebec Liberal Party won 48.
In 1995, electricity generated in the province totaled 200.8 billion kilowatt hours (75 percent by Hydro-Québec) and consumption within the province amounted to 161 billion kilowatt hours.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/quebec.htm   (7499 words)

  
 cox_jacob_b.html
Jacob Dolson Cox, lawyer, soldier, statesman, and scholar, was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 25, 1828.
In 1858 he won election to the State Senate of Ohio and during his term allied closely with other radical anti-slavery advocates, including James A. Garfield (1831-1881).
Subsequently, he fought at the battles of Antietam, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville, after which he was promoted to Major General (an earlier promotion in 1862 fell through when the allotted quota of promotions was surpassed).
www.oberlin.edu /archive/WWW_files/cox_jacob_b.html   (1016 words)

  
 GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Georgia's 20th county was named for Continental Army general Richard Montgomery (1736-1775), who was mortally wounded on Dec. 31, 1775 at the Battle of Quebec during the early stages of the American Revolution.
An act of Feb. 8, 1797 provided that the courthouse, jail, and other county business be held at the plantation of Arthur Lott, which was designated the county seat of Montgomery County (Ga. Laws 1797, p.
In 1813, the General Assembly designated the settlement of Mount Vernon as county seat (Ga. Laws 1813, p.
www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/courthouses/montgomeryCH.htm   (435 words)

  
 Private Action for Canadian-U.S. Union
So tolerant is the United States that if Quebec wanted economic but not political union with the U.S., that special relationship ("sovereignty-association", the Parti Quebecois calls it, as proposed for Quebec vis-a-vis Canada) would be granted quickly and without resentment.
People within Ontario and Quebec, however, should remember that a big state in the U.S. is a vastly more powerful entity in world terms than a big province in Canada, since it helps shape the policies of the world's most influential society.
Skyline of Quebec City as seen from Levis on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
members.aol.com /XPUS/Canada.html   (10168 words)

  
 Political Science Resources/United States Politics
County election data for 1912, 1968, and 1980-2004
State-wide general and primary election results by district beginning with the 1998 primaries; registered voters
Election districts for the various state offices arranged by county
www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/psusp.html   (4067 words)

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