Quebec, The Province, The People, The History


Quebec is a province in eastern Canada, bordered on the north by Hudson
Strait and Ungava Bay; on the east by Labrador (Which is a part of Newfoundland),
the Strait of Belle Isle, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; on the south by New
Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Ontario; and on the west
by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay.

The name Quebec is derived from an Algonquian term for "place where the
river narrows," referring to the Saint Lawrence River near the site of present-
day Quebec City, the capital of the province.

Quebec is sometimes called "the Storied Province," Quebec became part of
the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867, as one of the four original
provinces.

The province of Quebec was first colonized by France and was formally
acquired by Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763. The mass majority of
Quebec's population today use French as their first language. Beginning in the
1960s......

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