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The National Research Council (NRC) maintains Canada's official time through the use of atomic clocks. [3] The official time is specified in legislation passed by the individual provinces. In Quebec it is based on coordinated universal time. [4] The other provinces use mean solar time.
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
Map of Quebec. Located in the eastern part of Canada, Quebec occupies a territory nearly three times the size of France. [124] It holds an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (0.58 million square miles) and its borders are more than 12,000 km (7,500 mi) long. [125] [126] Most of Quebec is very sparsely populated.
Canada population density map (2014) Top left: The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely inhabited and heavily industrialized region. [275] The 2021 Canadian census enumerated a total population of 36,991,981, an increase of around 5.2 percent over the 2016 figure. [276] It is estimated that Canada's population surpassed 40,000,000 ...
No area codes have been split in Canada since 1999. Area code 438 was considered for overlaying 450 as well, but a later decision determined instead that 579 would be the overlay code. [4] In February 2017, area code 263 was reserved as the third area code in the region, and was placed in service on October 22, 2022. [5]
In the regions of Canada that use daylight saving time, it begins on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m. and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. As a result, daylight saving time lasts in Canada for a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65 percent of the entire year.
The all-time record of the greatest precipitation in winter was established in winter 2007–2008, with more than five metres [27] of snow in the area of Quebec City, while the average amount received per winter is around three metres. [28]
Area code 819 thus bordered area code 613 and the new area code 705 in Ontario, area code 418 in the east and the north of Quebec, and the remainder of area code 514 in the south of Quebec. When telephone service was introduced in the eastern Northwest Territories (most of which is now the territory of Nunavut , created in 1999), in Frobisher ...