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Master Chief Joe D. Brown (wearing a bearskin hat), Drum Major of the United States Navy Band, leading members of the band in front of the Quebec City Armoury as part of the opening ceremony of the Quebec Music Festival. The Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury was severely damaged by a fire on April 4, 2008.
Two people seated in an Electriquette (1915) The Electriquette was an electric vehicle with a two-person bench seat and exterior made of rattan (wicker). The vehicle was an early form of battery-powered motorized wheelchair or cart, and it utilized a motor manufactured by General Electric.
The Old Quebec Funicular (French: Funiculaire du Vieux-Québec, pronounced [fynikylɛʁ dy vjø kebɛk]) is an inclined elevator, formerly a funicular railway, in the Old Quebec neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It links the Haute-Ville (Upper Town) at Dufferin Terrace to the Basse-Ville (Lower Town) at Rue du Petit-Champlain.
Before the official establishment of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada, Catholic churches and property throughout Canada were targets of arson, notably the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City in 1922. [17] These were attributed to the Ku Klux Klan. [17] St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Barrie, Ontario
Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; from the verb sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French), Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, a portion of Aroostook ...
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc (Nicolas Cazalé) is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge.
The word for "shop" or "store" in all varieties of French is le magasin. In Quebec, the verb magasiner is used for "shopping", and was naturally created by simply converting the noun. In France, the expression is either faire des courses, faire des achats, faire des emplettes, or faire du shopping. No single verb exists as does in Quebec.
Pontiac (French pronunciation:) is a municipality in the Outaouais Region of western Quebec, Canada, on the north shore of the Ottawa River.It is part of Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, included in the National Capital Region.