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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.
Quebec City [a] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [ 13 ] and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) [ 14 ] had a population of 839,311. [ 15 ]
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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.
Romanticized depiction of Quebec City in 1720. The history of Quebec City extends back thousands of years, with its first inhabitants being the First Nations peoples of the region. The arrival of French explorers in the 16th century eventually led to the establishment of Quebec City, in present-day Quebec, Canada. The city is one of the oldest ...
The Citadelle of Quebec (French: Citadelle de Québec), also known as La Citadelle, is an active military installation and the secondary official residence of the governor general of Canada. [2] [3] [4] It is atop Cap Diamant, adjoining the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Quebec.
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [19] and is now named after Mount Royal, [20] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [21]
1984 – Opération Nez rouge was founded in Quebec City. 1984 – Musée de la civilisation established. 1985 – Ramparts of Quebec City was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO. 1985 – Shamrock Summit. 1987 – Flag of Quebec City adopted. 1994 – Quebec Biker war. 1995 – Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec created.