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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Quebec_CityQuebec City - Wikipedia

    Quebec City. /  46.81389°N 71.20806°W  / 46.81389; -71.20806. Quebec City ( / kwɪˈbɛk / ⓘ or / kəˈbɛk /; [ 11] French: Ville de Québec ), officially known as Québec ( French pronunciation: [kebɛk] ), [ 12] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [ 13] and ...

  2. The following is a list of notable people from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. See Category: People from Quebec City for a more systematic list. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

    • Nomenclature
    • Etymology
    • Québécois as An Ethnicity
    • Québécois Identity
    • Québécois Nation
    • Québécois in Census and Ethnographic Studies
    • Special Terms Using 'Québécois'
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    Québécois (pronounced [kebekwa] ⓘ); feminine: Québécoise (pronounced [kebekwaz] ⓘ), Quebecois (fem.: Quebecoise), or Québecois (fem.: Québecoise) is a word used primarily to refer to a French-speaking inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec. Sometimes, it is used more generally to refer to any inhabitant of Quebec. It can refer to French spok...

    The name Québec comes from an Algonquin word meaning 'narrow passage' or 'strait'. The name originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap. French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose this name in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the administrative seat for the French colony...

    As shown by the 2016 Statistics Canada census, 58.3% of residents of Quebec identify their ethnicity as Canadian[a], 23.5% as French and 0.4% as Acadian. Roughly 2.3% of residents, or 184,005 people, describe their ethnicity as Québécois.

    The term became more common in English as Québécois largely replacing French Canadian as an expression of cultural and national identity among French Canadians living in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. The predominant French Canadian nationalism and identity of previous generations was based on the protection of the French language...

    The political shift towards a new Quebec nationalism in the 1960s led to Québécois increasingly referring to provincial institutions as being national. This was reflected in the change of the provincial Legislative Assembly to National Assembly in 1968. Nationalism reached an apex in the 1970s and 1990s, with contentious constitutional debates resu...

    The Québécois self-identify as an ethnic group in both the English and French versions of the Canadian census and in demographic studies of ethnicity in Canada. In the 2016 census, 74,575 chose Québécois as one of multiple responses with 119,985 choosing it as a single response (194,555 as a combined response). In the 2001 Census of Canada, 98,670 ...

    French expressions employing "Québécois" often appear in both French and English. 1. Parti Québécois: Provincial-level political party that supports Quebec independence from Canada 2. Bloc Québécois: Federal-level political party that supports Quebec independence from Canada 3. Québécois de souche ("old-stock Quebecker"): Quebecer who can trace the...

  3. 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 European settlements in North America, with the ...

  4. People from Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge‎ (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "People from Quebec City" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total.

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

    Quebec [a] (French: Québec ⓘ) [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.. With an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (0.58 million square miles) and more than 12,000 km (7,500 mi) of borders, [13] [14] in North America, Quebec is located in Central Canada.

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  7. May 13, 2008 · Quebec City, Quebec, founded in 1608, population 549,459 (2021 census), 531,902 (2016 census). Quebec City, the capital of the province of Quebec, is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River where it meets the Rivière Saint-Charles. Here, the St. Lawrence narrows to a width of just over 1 km, and navigation is made difficult by a ...

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