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Québécois (pronounced ⓘ); feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ⓘ), Quebecois (fem.: Quebecoise), [4] or Québecois (fem.: Québecoise) [5] is a word used primarily to refer to a French-speaking inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec. Sometimes, it is used more generally to refer to any inhabitant of Quebec.
The school and the convent of the Congregation of Our Lady of Good Council, the ghost town of Val-Jalbert, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. The Cultural Heritage Fund is a program of the Quebec government [4] for the conservation and development of Quebec's heritage, together with various laws. [5]
Quebec [a] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is the largest province by area [b] and located in Central Canada.The province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut.
Québécois (e) or Quebecois(e) may refer to: Related to the Canadian province of Quebec. most often, Québécois people, a native or inhabitant of Quebec; any native or resident of Quebec, see Demographics of Quebec; the French culture of Quebec; Quebec French, the variety of French spoken in Quebec
Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government.
Approximately 900,000 Quebec residents [1] [2] (French Canadian for the great majority) left for the United States between 1840 and 1930. They were pushed to emigrate by overpopulation in rural areas that could not sustain them under the seigneurial system of land tenure, but also because the expansion of this system was in effect blocked by the "Château Clique" that ruled Quebec under the ...
Horse is eaten marginally- by less than 1% of Quebecois. Its consumption is considered taboo, though it is not illegal. [25] Other meats include lamb, veal, rabbit, bison, elk and frog legs (from American bullfrogs and leopard frogs). [26] [27]
Quebec is situated within the following regions: Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere. Americas. North America. Northern America. Laurentia. Canada. Central Canada; Eastern Canada