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Quebec City
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Whale-Watching
Seasmoke Whale-Watching
There are no other tours on earth quite like ours!
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Bed & Breakkfasts
Greenwoods inn
Green Woods Inn is a beautifully converted Victorian country home sitting in two acres of grounds surrounded by lakes, rivers and countryside in an area steeped in Ontario's history.
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312 Seaton
312 Seaton, is a detached Victorian home on a quiet tree lined street in downtown Toronto‚s historical "Cabbagetown".
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Accomodation on the Beach
Alert bay, BC
250. 974 5225
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A Good Knight B&B
Calgary, Alberta
Tel.
403.270 7628
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Quebec
Destination profile
Quebec is the largest province of Canada. It also has more people than any other province except Ontario. About 80 percent of Quebec's people have French ancestors, and some of the people in this group speak only French. Montreal is the largest city in Quebec. The capital of the province is Quebec City.
History
Viking longboats from Scandinavia carried the first Europeans to the Arctic shores of the Ungava Penninsula around 1000 CE. Basque whalers and fishermen traded furs with Sagueney natives throughout the 1400s.
The first French explorer to reach Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore. He sailed into the St. Lawrence River in 1535 and established an ill-fated colony near present-day Quebec City at the site of Stadacona, a village populated by Iroquoians.
The People
Quebeckers comprise the largest French-speaking society in the Americas. Most French Canadians live in Quebec, though there are other concentrations of French-speakers throughout Canada with varying degrees of ties to Quebec. Montreal is the vibrant cosmopolitan cultural heart of Quebec. History made Quebec a place where cultures meet, where people from all over the world experience America, but from a little distance and through a different eye. Often described as a crossroads between Europe and America, Quebec is home to a people that has the privilege of being connected to the strong cultural currents of the United States, France, and the British Isles all at the same time.
Quebec is also home to 11 aboriginal nations and to a large English-speaking minority of approximately 600,000 people.
EXTERNAL LINKS
* Government of Quebec
* Symbols and emblems of Quebec
* Bonjour Québec Quebec government official tourist site
* Agora, online encyclopaedia from Quebec
* Contemporary Quebec in Cartoons
* Le Blogue du Québec - in French
History :
* Quebec History by Marianapolis College
* History of the 1759 British invasion of Quebec
* The 1837-1838 Rebellion in Lower Canada
* Bibliothèque nationales du Québec Map Collection 5,000 digitized maps - in French
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