Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. People also ask

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › QuebecQuebec - Wikipedia

    Quebec [a] ( French: Québec [kebɛk] ⓘ) [12] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area [b] and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, [13] between its most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City.

    • Coat of Arms

      The coat of arms of the province of Quebec (French:...

    • History of Quebec

      Quebec was first called Canada between 1534 and 1763. It was...

    • Flag

      The flag of Quebec, called the Fleurdelisé (French for...

    • Overview
    • Relief, drainage, and soils

    Quebec, eastern province of Canada. Constituting nearly one-sixth of Canada’s total land area, Quebec is the largest of Canada’s 10 provinces in area and is second only to Ontario in population. Its capital, Quebec city, is the oldest city in Canada. The name Quebec, first bestowed on the city in 1608 and derived from an Algonquian word meaning “where the river narrows,” beckons visitors to the city’s splendid view of the majestic St. Lawrence River and the pastoral Orleans Island. The province’s major metropolis, Montreal (Montréal), encompassing Montreal Island, Jesus Island to the north, and several communities on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, is the second largest city in Canada. Quebec is bounded to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to the southeast by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, New Brunswick, and the U.S. state of Maine, to the south by the U.S. states of New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, and to the west by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay.

    The boundaries of Quebec were altered many times following the establishment of New France in the early 17th century, when the French colonial empire in North America spread all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and west of the Mississippi River. At that time James Bay, Hudson Bay, and the Ungava region belonged to the British Hudson’s Bay Company. In 1898 Quebec’s boundary was extended north to the Eastmain River and east to Labrador. The district of Ungava was added less than two decades later. Quebec’s present-day boundaries were determined in 1927, when the British Privy Council granted Labrador to Newfoundland (now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador). Today the province of Quebec’s French-speaking political leaders continue to dispute this decision but honour the 1927 boundary.

    Quebec’s territory comprises extensions of three of Canada’s main physiographic regions: the St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Appalachian Uplands, and the Canadian Shield (also called the Laurentian Shield). Each region is a storehouse of unique natural and human resources, which accounts for their different settlement and development patterns over the past centuries.

    Britannica Quiz

    Australia, United States, Canada, or Ireland? Quiz

    The most fertile and densely populated region of the province, stretching from Quebec city to Montreal along both sides of the St. Lawrence River, is the St. Lawrence Lowlands. The lowland plain was initially home to various aboriginal communities and then was settled quickly by Europeans during the early history of New France. The lowland plain remains the heart of Quebec’s small but vibrant agricultural sector, as well as the core of its expanding urban communities and changing industrial economy.

    Stretching from the Gaspé Peninsula to the border of the United States, Quebec’s Appalachian Uplands region is the northern extension of the Appalachian Mountains. It is covered with forested hills, arable plateaus, and high plains, undulating and rising to the higher mountain ranges of the United States. This region also includes Anticosti Island, situated in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence northwest of the Gaspé Peninsula.

    Exclusive academic rate for students! Save 67% on Britannica Premium.

    • Michael D. Behiels
  3. Mar 30, 2023 · Quebec, the largest Canadian province, encompasses an area of 595,391 square miles. It shares borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, and New Brunswick to the southeast. To the south, Quebec borders the United States, specifically the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.

    • Quebec
    • Province of Quebec
    • CA-pqz
    • Is Quebec a province?1
    • Is Quebec a province?2
    • Is Quebec a province?3
    • Is Quebec a province?4
  4. Sep 30, 2007 · Technically, Quebec is a province. Others claim that Quebec is a nation in the sense that it is the home of the French-speaking nation in North America and other Québécois of non-French origins.

    • Is Quebec a province?1
    • Is Quebec a province?2
    • Is Quebec a province?3
    • Is Quebec a province?4
    • Is Quebec a province?5
  5. 3 days ago · Quebec city, formerly the capital of the colony, remained the capital of Lower Canada. It was incorporated in 1832 and was given its actual charter in 1840, the year that Parliament voted to rejoin Upper and Lower Canada as the Province of Canada.

    • Brett Mcgillivray
  6. Quebec is Canada’s largest province in terms of landmass, but much of its territory is uninhabited — and uninhabitable. The provinces extreme north is a barren arctic wasteland similar to that of Canada’s three northern territories, inhabited by polar bears, caribou and arctic wolves, while the central region is filled with dense, boreal forest.

  7. May 19, 2019 · Quebec is the largest Canadian province in area (though the territory of Nunavut is larger) and the second largest in population, after Ontario. Quebec is a mainly French-speaking society, and the defense of its language and culture colors all politics in the province (in French, the province's name is spelled Québec).

  1. People also search for