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Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and the only one with a Francophone majority, where Québécois French is spoken.[1] The name Québec originates from an Algonquin term meaning 'narrow passage' or 'strait', and this designation initially applied to the vicinity of Quebec City, where the Saint Lawrence River becomes constricted.[2]

Geography and history

The first people arrived after the Laurentide Ice Sheet melted roughly 11,000 years ago, and from them many ethnocultural groups emerged.[3] French explorer Jacques Cartier landed in Gaspé in 1534, becoming the first European to discover and map Quebec.[4] The British divided the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada in 1791 following Loyalist protests.[5] Lower Canada became Canada East after the Act of Union 1840 merged the two colonies into the Province of Canada.[6]

King Louis XIV received control of Canada from the Company of New France in 1663, subsequently transforming New France into a royal province that was governed by the Sovereign Council of New France, operating from Quebec City.[7] The Treaty of Paris, signed on February 10, 1763, brought the war to a close, and as a result France surrendered all its North American territories to Great Britain, thereby ending New France.[8] George-Étienne Cartier, who had previously been a Patriote, became a co-premier of the Province of Canada and a prominent figure at the Quebec Conference; the conference produced the Quebec Resolutions, which formed the basis for Canadian Confederation, and Cartier successfully argued for the creation of the province of Quebec.[9]

What the cited sources add

A Parks Canada account notes that the tragic events at Grosse Île in 1847 stemmed from the Great Irish Famine, which reached a climax that year.[10] A 2006 article states that the first telephone in Montreal was established in 1878 through the initiative of five young men.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canada, "Provinces and territories", GAC, 2011-10-26 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Origin of the names of Canada and its provinces and territories", Natural Resources Canada, March 27, 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lacoursière, "Canada-Quebec 1534–2000: historical summary", Septentrion, 2000; "Bering Land Bridge", National Geographic (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Charpentier Durocher Laville Linteau 1985, p. 47; Riendeau 2007, p. 36 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Loyalistes au Bas-Canada", Histoire du Quebec, March 2, 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Only Canadians: Canada's French and the British Connection" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Rois et reines du Canada", Government of Canada, August 11, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hunter 1999, p. 505–506; "Treaty of Paris - 1763", Encyclopedia Britannica; Brunet, "Les Canadiens apres la conquete", Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 1958 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Quebec" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Résolutions de la Conférence de Québec - octobre 1864", Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Parks Canada Agency, "1847: A tragic year at Grosse Île", parks.canada.ca, 2023-04-05. facts only, no text reused. parks.canada.ca
  11. admin, "premier téléphone", Voyage à travers le Québec, 2006-12-15. facts only, no text reused. grandquebec.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Quebec (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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