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 the Quebecois (French-speaking residents of Quebec) made strong efforts to preserve their French heritage as well as to gain additional powers for the province, which led to conflicts with the national government that have yet to be fully resolved. This is apparent in the recent "Referendum" where theQuebecois tried to get Quebec special provincial concederations based on the fact the mass majority of Quebec residents speak French.
Quebec is the largest of all the Canadian provinces. Its large area of
1,540,680 sq km (594,858 sq MI) accounts for 15.5 percent of Canada's total area and includes 183,890 sq km (71,000 sq MI) of inland freshwater surface. This is a major draw for Industry in Quebec. Elevations in Quebec range from sea level to 1622 m (5322 ft), atop Mont D'Iberville in the Torngat Mountains in the northeast. Anticosti Island and the Magdalen Islands, (which are both in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence), are part of Quebec, which has a tidal shoreline of some
13,775 km (some 8560 MI).
Montreal is the leading industrial and commercial center and largest city in the province of Quebec.
The climate of Quebec varies drastically. Quebec's climate is effected by regional variations in altitude and by the pce's northern location, and its exposed position between the cold waters of Hudson Bay and the cold ocean currents along the Labrador coast. Montreal has an average January temperature of about -9° C (about 16° F) and an average July temperature of about 22° C
(about 72° F). The recorded temperatures in the province have ranged from -54.4°
C (-65.9° F), in 1923 at Doucet in the south, to 40° C (104° F), in 1921 at
“Just watch me.”Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau said in 1970. He meant it as he fought to keep Quebec a part of Canada. Not only did he do that, he managed to be prime minister for 16 years, as well as being Canada’s youngest leader at the time. He brought greater civil rights to Canadians, Quebec citizens mainly. His charismatic personality matched his innovative ideas, that enhanced Canada for the better. For his entire political career, not only did Canada watch him, the whole world watched him change the country for the better. He made a radical change to Canada by championing the idea of officially implementing bilingualism. Trudeau was a trailblazer from the moment he was elected.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s fisheries might start to be dated in a period not too distant from that Age of Discovery years, about five centuries ago, and since this period it had been performed an important role in both economic and socio-cultural structure of Atlantic Canada. Among several species, northern cods performed one of the main sources of food for both populations from Atlantic Canada and Eastern European countries such as Spain, Portugal, France, and principally England (Higgins, Lifestyle of Fishers, 1600-1900, 2008).
on the West. This meant that the Canadians would have to attack over open ground
Quebec’s social identity and defining characteristics contradict and conflict with those of rest of Canada. Since the genesis of our country, the political, social disagreements, and tensions between Quebec and the rest of Canada have been unavoidable. Utilizing Hiller’s key contradictions in the analysis of a Canadian society, we will compare and contrast the nature of the societal identity in Quebec compared to that of rest of Canada, emphasising on the major differences and tensions between the province and the rest of the country.
Bordered by the North Sea, France, and the Netherlands is Belgium, at 50 50 N, 4 00 E. This small country located in Western Europe is highly urbanized similarly to a country border by 3 oceans and the United States of America, Canada. With the longitude and latitude of 60 00 N, 95 00 W, Canada is a large country with the area of 9,984,670 square kilometres. Even though their land area may be different, the 2 countries also have similar aspects in their human, physical, and economic geography.
Macfarlane, Daniel. "Rapid Changes: Canada and the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project." University of Waterloo. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Dec. 2013. .
Source 2 is a visual representation of The Louis on its yearly trip, and it patrols the ever-known Northwest Passage, and Jonathan Hayward from the Canadian Press depicts at the fact the questioned sovereignty over the Arctic by Canada, and more than ever these ships are as important as ever. Geographical nationalism is an emotional tie between the people of a land and the different and vast geography of a nation-state. The First Nations were the first group to inhabit Canada, and this is why their spiritual beliefs are based upon Mother Nature because these groups have such a deep connection and deep respect for this land. In this connection it is shown Canada’s deep connection to hold onto to the Arctic because we have individual and collective
Canada is known by outsiders to be a very peaceful country. But if you ask any Canadian they well tell you that is unfortunately not the case. For there is a large ongoing conflict between Canadians. The conflict is between the French and the English, or more specifically between Quebec and the rest of Canada. As a result of this conflict, along with some wrongdoing and propaganda. Quebec has considered and has gone as far to hold referendums over Separatism (Surette,2014). Separatism is that the province of Quebec separates from the rest of Canada to form its own country. Which would have immense effects on indubitably Quebec but also the rest of Canada (Martin, 2014). This report will focus on the root causes and origin of Quebec Separatism, the current state of Quebec Separatism and finally how we as a society can act towards Quebec Separatism.
vicinity of Brody island also it is on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and was built in 1872
Even in July and August, temperatures rarely rise above 15 degrees Celsuis. No matter what time of year you're visiting, you should pack warm clothing in case of wind, rain, or snow!
Precisely so, the Algonquin are located in between the major waterways of the St Laurent and Ottawa Rivers.
The Quebec separation all started when a separatist group called the “Front de Liberation du Quebec (also known as FLQ) began a terrorist campaign to win sovereignty for Quebec in 1963. However, not a lot of people supported the FLQ after they kidnapped the British commissioner, James Cross, and assassinated Quebec’s Labour Minister, Pierre Laporte, in 1970. On the other hand, Rene Lévesque, the leader of another separatist group called “Parti Quebecois” provided a more peaceful way to get separation. Furthermore, Lévesque confessed that the French-speaking Quebec might not survive within the Canadian federal system, so he recommended that Quebec should become politically independent but keep some form of economic union with Canada. The Quebec separation can be justified by the argument that it is a distinct society as the result of their language, legal system, and the origin of their culture.
In 1604, Champlain sailed to Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia) with Pierre Dugua de Mons to establish a French colony at Ile Ste-Croix. This colony needed to move to Port- Royal, in 1605, due to its more sheltered location. However, this colony did not last long for it had to be abandoned,
Vancouver was initially founded as a fort in the summer and fall of 1827[2.3]. Hudson’s Bay Company built Fort Langley as a trading post on the south side of the Fraser River. The fort was subsequently moved upstream to be closer to its farms in 1839[2.3&6]. The fort was built along the river because the river was an important trade route for both the fort and the natives to the area[1]. This fort, while trading large quantities of merchandise with the local natives, only truly controlled what was within its walls and had very little effect on the native control of the area[2.3].
Each of those pieces were parts of larger plates: Cape Breton was part of a large continental craton named Laurentia, Northern Nova Scotia was part of microcontinent “Avalonia”, and the remaining South-Western area was a part of Gondwana which is classified as a supercontinent. Each area has been significantly changed by volcanoes, mountain building, erosion, faulting and glaciation. At different times they were sea bottoms, swamps, deserts, inland lakes, tropical rain forests, and frozen beneath mile high glaciers. As another example, around 300 million years ago Nova Scotia was attached to Morocco in