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You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Historiographie de la Première Guerre mondiale}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation . The first tentative efforts to comprehend the meaning and consequences of modern warfare began during the initial phases of World War I ; this process continued throughout and after the ...
A mutilated French soldier after WW I. Gueules cassées (broken faces) [1] is a French expression for facially disfigured servicemen that originated in World War I.Colonel Yves Picot is said to have coined the term when he was refused entry to a gathering for those disabled from the war.
This article presents a detailed timeline of Quebec history. Events taking place outside Quebec, for example in English Canada, the United States, Britain or France, may be included when they are considered to have had a significant impact on Quebec's history. 1533 and before; 1534 to 1607; 1608 to 1662; 1663 to 1759; 1760 to 1773; 1774 to 1790 ...
On May 5, the last bomb of the Front de libération du Québec exploded at the Casa d'Italia in Montreal. It was placed by the Reynald Lévesque cell. On May 8, the Petit Québec libre barn located in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Rochelle is burned down by the RCMP.
Montreal's First World War cenotaph is in Place du Canada to the south. The Boer War was widely unpopular in Quebec society, viewed as an imperial war. Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier opposed the war, but ultimately compromised with the proposal for militia and volunteers en lieu of conscription.
1835 - Louis-Michel Viger and Jacob De Witt found La Banque du Peuple. It becomes a chartered bank in 1844. 1836 - Founding of the Doric Club, a reincarnation of the banned British Rifle Corp. 1836 - The laws establishing the normal schools of the country are passed. They would have been the first secular, public, and free schools of Lower Canada.
Les Voltigeurs de Québec is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces.It is at the Quebec City Armoury in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.The name of the regiment commemorates another older French-speaking Canadian militia light infantry unit, the Canadian Voltigeurs (raised in 1812 and disbanded in 1815).
The National Archives of Quebec (French: Archives nationales du Québec, ANQ) were founded on 2 September 1920, with Pierre-Georges Roy as Quebec's first Head Archivist. . The purpose of the institution was to process historical materials, more specifically public archives and the Quebec government's archives, and to collect documents pertaining to the history of Quebec. the ANQ were brought ...