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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (French: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Provides funding for activities organized on National Indigenous Peoples Day (NIPD), Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, Canadian Multiculturalism Day, and Canada Day. In 2019, among the various celebrations supported by Canadian Heritage were celebrations of NIPD broadcast via television, radio, and online. Commemorate Canada
Histoire de la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, des Patriotes au fleurdelysé, 1834-1948, Montréal: Éditions de l'Aurore, 564 p. ISBN 0-88532-089-1; CRCCF. "La Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l'Ontario" in the site La présence française en Ontario : 1610, passeport pour 2010. Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne ...
The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, pronounced [sɔsjete sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ batist]) is an institution in the Canadian province of Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec sovereignism. It is known as the oldest patriotic association in French North America. [1]
The king was crowned on 24 June, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and announced plans to build a "vegetable oratory," Saint-Jean-du-Millénaire (Saint John of the Millennium). [5] This micronational project was cheerfully conceded to be a way of boosting tourism in the region, which had been hit by the 1996 Saguenay ...
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, a former municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec that is now part of Mont-Joli, Quebec Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche, New Brunswick , Canada Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste), institution in Quebec dedicated to protection of francophone interests
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral in 1886. The seat of the bishop (or "ordinary") is the Cathedral of St. Jean-Baptiste, a spectacular building opened in 1963, which seats 1,200 worshippers and features extensive stained glass as well as other artwork by a number of local artists.
101 – The Bizarre History of O Canada: The story of Canada's national anthem, from the 1600s to the 1980s. Composed by Calixa Lavallee and Sir Adolphe-Basile-Routhier, the song was originally linked to Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day and, as a result, it became deeply embedded in the turbulent history of Quebec before it was ever considered to represent the rest of the country.