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100 unusual facts about Québec


Acadia River

The course of the river flows through seven municipalities (or cities): Hemmingford, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington (where it flows eastward) Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Napierville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Saint-Luc and Acadia sector), Carignan and Chambly.

The Acadia river takes it source from some streams at the foot of mountains near the Canada-United States border in the Hemmingford Township at Hemmingford.

Acton Vale

Acton Vale, Quebec, an industrial town in south-central Quebec, Canada

Adstock

For the municipality in Quebec, see Adstock, Quebec

Alan Gerber

He subsequently moved to Canada and currently lives in Val-David, Quebec.

Alice Rollit Coe

She was born Alice Sarah Rollit in Rawdon, Quebec, Canada on September 20, 1858 to John Charles Rollit and Elizabeth (née Spooner) Rollit.

Battle of Lacolle

Several battles have been fought at or near the town of Lacolle, Quebec, Canada.

Belgh Brasse

Belgh Brasse is a Quebec micro-brewery located in Amos, in the Abitibi region of Northwestern Quebec.

Brian McConnell

He was the resident engineer for the city of Westmount (1893-1896) and finally entered into private practice and remained as such until 1916.

Canada Car Company

Canada Car Company was a railcar manufacturer based in Turcot, Quebec (a suburb in Montreal), and later merged with several other companies to form Canadian Car and Foundry in 1909.

Champ Car Mont-Tremblant 07

It was held on July 1 at the Circuit Mont-Tremblant, in Saint-Jovite, Quebec, Canada.

Charlie Major

Born in Aylmer, Quebec, Charlie Major knew he wanted to be a musician since he was 19 years old.

Chartrand et Simonne

The series originally only had two parts but it was expanded into 6 parts and re-aired in 2003 on Télé-Québec.

Claude Bourbonnais

Claude Bourbonnais (born June 24, 1965, L'Île-Perrot, Quebec), is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series.

CMC Electronics

The company's principal manufacturing facility is located in Montreal, Quebec, with additional facilities located in Ottawa, Ontario and Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Colonial American military history

As a result of the war, Maine fell to the New Englanders with the defeat of Father Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to St. Francis and Becancour, Quebec.

Conrad Gugy

In 1778, when refugees started arriving from across the border, with the marked approval of the now Governor of Canada, his old friend Sir Frederick Haldimand, Gugy erected dwellings and a school on his seigneuries at Yamachiche, Quebec, to house them.

Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village

In November 2011, the Town entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Auberge et Spa Le Nordik Inc. of Chelsea, Quebec.

David Douglas Crosby

In 1997, Crosby was appointed Bishop of Labrador City-Schefferville and, in 2003, was appointed as the Bishop of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Davie Yards Incorporated

Created in 2006 when TECO purchase the assets for the bankrupt MIL-Davie, the new Canadian unit is based in Lauzon, Quebec.

Denis Viger

He worked as a carpenter and also carved wooden objects for the church at Saint-Denis.

Donald Macleay

Financial difficulties caused his parents to move to Canada and settle on a farm near Melbourne, Quebec, when Macleay was 16.

Edward Everett Rose

Rose was born in Stanstead, Quebec, and graduated from Chauncy Hall School in Boston in 1881, and studied for two years at Harvard University.

Engineering News-Record

Award of Excellence recipients include Robert Boyd, who brought engineering and managing excellence to Hydro-Québec's $15-billion James Bay project, Fazlur

Étienne-Alexis Boucher

He was also a municipal councillor for the municipality of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton as well as a school commissionner for the Saint-Hyacinthe School Board.

Evanov Communications

On January 20, 2012, Evanov announced that Dufferin applied with the CRTC to establish a new Soft AC station in Hudson, Quebec, a western suburb of Montreal; the new station would broadcast at 106.7 MHz at 500 watts at 94 metres HAAT.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Fatback

Fatback is a traditional part of southern US cuisine, soul food and traditional Cuisine of Quebec, where it is used for fried pork rinds (known there as cracklings, or Oreilles de crisse in Quebec), and to flavor stewed vegetables such as greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas.

François-Antoine Larocque

He was born in L'Assomption in 1784, the son of François-Antoine Larocque, and studied at the Collège de Montréal.

George Couture

Born in Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), Lower Canada, Couture was elected to the Lévis municipal council in 1865.

Greenfield Park

Greenfield Park, Quebec, a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec and a suburb of Montreal

Grosse Ile

Grosse Isle, Quebec, an island where many Irish Immigrants to Canada were housed and the site of the Grosse Isle Disaster

Guy D'Artois

In March 1999, Major L.G. d'Artois, a hero in war and peace, died in the Veterans Hospital in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

Hana Gartner

Gartner grew up in Chomedey, Laval, and was educated at Loyola College (now Concordia University), in Montreal Quebec.

Herman Ngoudjo

He later went on to win the bronze medal in the 2001 Francophone Games in Hull, Quebec, Canada.

Hyacinthe-Marie Simon, dit Delorme

He was born in Saint-Denis, the son of seigneur Jacques-Hyacinthe Simon dit Delorme and Marie-Anne Crevier Décheneaux.

Jacques Frémin

The high repute he had gained among the various tribes was responsible for his recall, in 1670, to take charge of La Prairie, the Christian settlement near Montreal where the converted Indians had been gathered, and it was he who placed this refuge on a solid footing and eliminated the liquor traffic.

Jean-Marc Hamel

Born in Lotbinière, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1948 and a Master of Commerce degree in 1949 from Université Laval.

John Harry Williams

Born in the asbetos mining town of Asbestos, Quebec, he had three brothers: Elewyn, Lloyd, and Arthur.

Joseph Miville Dechene

Joseph Miville Dechene was born on October 22, 1879 in Chambord, Quebec.

Joseph-Alfred Archambeault

He was born into an upper-class family in the village of L'Assomption, then in Lower Canada.

Joseph-Félix Descôteaux

He was born in Sainte-Monique, Canada East, the son of Félix Descoteaux and Marie-Thérèse Manseau.

Julius Scriver

Born in Hemmingford, Lower Canada (now Quebec), the son of John Scriver and Lucretia Manning, he studied at the Workman's School in Montreal and the University of Vermont.

Laurentian Bank of Canada

Legislative revisions in 1975 allowed the Bank to open a branch in Granby, Quebec, its first branch outside the Montreal region.

Laurie Gough

Gough is married, has a little boy, and lives in both Guelph, Ontario, and Wakefield, Quebec.

Law of Canada

Quebec, however, still retains a civil system for issues of private law (as this domain falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces).

Léon Abel Provancher

Léon Abel Provancher (b. 10 March 1820, in the parish of Bécancour, Nicolet County, Quebec; d. at Cap-Rouge, Quebec, 23 March 1892) was a Canadian Catholic parish priest and naturalist.

Lucien Gagnon

He was among the first to take part in the agitation in Canada against the British government, was present at the assembly of the six confederate counties at St. Charles, 23 October 1837, and left the meeting convinced that insurrection was the only remedy for Canadian grievances.

Malartic

Malartic, Quebec, a town on the Malartic River in northwestern Quebec, Canada.

Maple Falls, Washington

Among the first settlers of Maple Falls was Herbert Everant Leavitt, a native of Melbourne, Quebec, Canada.

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais (born October 15, 1979 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec) is a Canadian glamour and cosplay model.

Maurice Harquail

Maurice James Harquail (born 2 December 1938 in Matapédia, Quebec) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Mauricie–Bois-Francs

It ceased to exist on July 30, 1997 (or August 20, 1997, upon publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec) when it was split into the modern-day administrative regions of Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec.

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School is an all-girls school located in Westmount, Quebec.

Montreal School for the Deaf

The Montreal Oral School for the Deaf (MOSD) is a provincial school in Westmount, Quebec, Canada with programs serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Nelly Arcan

Lac-Mégantic's municipal library, assembled from over a hundred thousand donated books after fire destroyed the original library during 2013's Lac-Mégantic derailment, is named « La Médiathèque municipale Nelly-Arcan » in her honour.

Normand Laprise

Normand Laprise was born in 1961 and raised on a farm in Kamouraska in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec.

Notre-Dame-du-Lac

Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, a former city that is now part of Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac

Ojibwe dialects

Recognized Algonquin communities include: Amos (Pikogan), Cadillac, Grand Lac Victoria, Hunter's Point, Kipawa (Eagle Village), Notre Dame du Nord (Timiskaming), Rapid Lake (Barriere Lake), Rapid Sept, Lac Simon, Québec, Winneway (Long Point).

Outarde

Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, is a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers

Paul Ahmarani

He was born from the union of two teachers, one from Cacouna, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec and another from the Mediterranean coast.

Pierre Guerout

He later set up his own business and had moved to Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu by 1783.

Portneuf Regional County Municipality

The Regional County Municipality of Portneuf was constituted as a regional administrative entity on November 25, 1981 by a Provincial decree creating the supralocal Regional County Municipality administration based on the (...) and therefore replacing the previously existing historic Portneuf County Corporation.

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Quebec-Labrador Foundation

Founding the Living Rivers Program in Tabusintac, New Brunswick, QLF established what would become one of QLF's hallmarks: cross border, community-based conservation and stewardship programs aimed at both young people and established conservation professionals.

Québec-Ouest

Quebec West, a former federal electoral district in the area of Quebec City

Quebec, County Durham

At the age of 20, Chris Waddle was working in Quebec's former meat factory, Hamsteels Frozen Foods, when he was signed by Newcastle United in 1980 from nearby Northern League side Tow Law Town for £1,000.

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791 is a book (ISBN 0-7710-6658-9) by Canadian historian Dr. Hilda Neatby published in 1966 in both the French and English languages as part of The Canadian Centenary Series.

RCAF Station Mont Apica

RCAF Mont Apica (later Canadian Forces Station or CFS Mont Apica) (ADC ID: C-1) was a radar station of the Pinetree Line, located in Mont-Apica, Quebec, Canada, during the Cold War.

Reference re Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act

The provinces of Quebec and Ontario disputed the constitutionality of the Act, as they believed it intruded into provincial jurisdiction with respect to property and civil rights.

René Beauvais

We do know that he became a master woodcarver by 1812 and did extensive work in the church at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville which included some carpentry, woodcarving, and gilding as well as the structure housing the altar, rood-loft, cornice, and vaulting of this building.

René Lévesque Boulevard

A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name "Boulevard Dorchester", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as "Rue Dorchester."

Richard Geren

Geren led pre-production studies and became Manager of IOCC's operations at Schefferville, where he faced numerous challenges associated with building a large mining operation in isolated sub-Arctic conditions.

Roxboro

Roxboro, Quebec, now part of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Roxton

Roxton Pond, Quebec, a municipality in La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality

Saint-Hyacinthe Chiefs

The Saint-Hyacinthe Chiefs was a minor hockey team based in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, which is now defunct.

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Montérégie, Quebec a former parish municipality in south-west Quebec which now forms part of the municipality of Saint-Chrysostome, Quebec

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Quebec

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Lévis, Quebec, a former city in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, since 2002 a district within Les-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of Lévis, Quebec

Saint-Stanislas, Quebec

Saint-Stanislas, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec in Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality

Seven-digit dialing

This "exchange code protection" made it possible in some low or moderate-density areas to use seven digits to reach areas in another area code (such as Hull from Ottawa before 2006, as every Ottawa-Hull local number originally was reserved in both 613 and 819).

Séverin Lachapelle

He then studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery and set up practice in Saint-Constant, later moving to Saint-Henri.

Sherbrooke Nature and Science Museum

The museum's collection of over 65,000 objects and specimens represents the diversity of the fauna and flora of Quebec, Canada as well as elsewhere in North America and around the world.

Spertiniite

It was first described in 1981 for an occurrence in the Jeffrey quarry of the Johns-Manville mine, Asbestos, Estrie, Québec.

STV Black Jack

Black Jack was originally a logging tug on the Upper Ottawa River and was based in Quyon, Quebec.

Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval

The Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval is a trade union representing blue-collar workers in Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Tadeusz Brzozowski

Later that year, Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis of Québec wrote to Pius VII and to Brzozowski, begging that Jesuits be sent from Great Britain not only for Halifax but to work among the aboriginal people in Upper Canada as well.

Ted Dey

Born in Hull, Quebec, Ted Dey was one of three brothers and two sisters born to Joseph Dey and Annie Buckley.

Thermalite

Thermalite safety fuses and connectors were manufactured in Quebec by ICA Canada Inc., however in November 1995 they ceased manufacturing of detonator cord.

Thomas C. Fields

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

Thomas Craig Fields (November 9, 1825 St. Lawrence County, New York – January 25, 1885 Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Thomas James Tait

Born in Melbourne, Quebec, the son of Melbourne McTaggart Tait, Tait entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1880, and by 1903 he was manager of transportation with Canadian Pacific Railway company.

Timber slide

The idea is attributed to Ruggles Wright who introduced the first one in 1829 not far from what is today down-town Hull, Quebec, Canada.

Tom Walmsley

Born in Liverpool, Walmsley came to Canada with his family in 1952, and was raised in Oshawa, Ontario and Lorraine, Quebec.

Tracteur Jack

The duo joined forces in 2003 in order to compete in the provincial talent contest "Cégeps en Spectacle", where they won both the jury's and public vote's prizes in Hull, 2004.

Trade secrets in Canada

According to the Civil Code of Quebec, an action for breach of trade secrets or confidential business information generally arises either from a contractual liability action (article 1458) or, in the absence of a contract, from a civil liability action (article 1457).

Tremblay v. Daigle

The fetal rights were said to be anchored in the rights to life in the Canadian Charter, the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and the Civil Code of Quebec.

Vlasovite

Other localities for vlasovite include the volcanic Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Township, Quebec and the Strange Lake Complex in Labrador.

Wind turbine

; Largest vertical-axis: Le Nordais wind farm in Cap-Chat, Quebec has a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) named Éole, which is the world's largest at 110 m.

Wind, Sand and Stars

In 1963, a group of prominent Canadians met for three days at the Seigneury Club in Montebello, Quebec.

Zarlink

In 2002 Zarlink sold its foundry in Bromont, Quebec, Canada to Dalsa Corporation, and its wafer fabrication facility in Plymouth, UK to X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG.


1747 in Canada

August 8: Madeleine de Verchères, daughter of François Jarret, a seigneur in New France, and Marie Perrot (b.1678); Madeline (alt spelling) achieved recognition when, as a young girl, she successfully fought off Iroquois attackers and helped to save Fort Vercheres (Quebec).

2012 Canadian Grand Prix

Following a smoke bomb incident on Montreal Metro subway, student activists from the Université du Québec à Montréal threatened to prevent the race from going ahead as part of ongoing demonstrations across Quebec.

À Hauteur d'homme

The 2003 Quebec election itself happened over the backdrop of the war in Iraq.

Ad Lib, Inc.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

Aliocha Schneider

He is currently in the television show Tactik aired on Télé-Québec in the role of Carl Bresson.

André Caillé

Caillé affirmed he voted Yes in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, but stated he presently believes the ADQ's autonomist policy is more concurrent with the feelings of Quebecers.

Association of Regular Baptist Churches

One of its leading churches is Jarvis Street Baptist Church of Toronto, Ontario, whose well-known pastor of 45 years, Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873–1955), led fundamentalist forces in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec during the fundamentalist/modernist controversies in the first half of the 20th century.

Canada Clause

A clause in the Charlottetown Accord that would have recognized the province of Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, aboriginal rights, sex equality and other principles; or

Centennial High School

Centennial Regional High School, a multi-campus English language high school in Quebec

Claude Brochu

In 2001, he published the book My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Expos, which blamed Quebec ex-premier Lucien Bouchard for the sale of the baseball team.

Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development

It is the first college organization to make educational content available on this distribution platform, and the third educational institution in Quebec to join, after University of Montreal and McGill University.

Cormier

Charles Cormier (1813 – 1887), a Quebec businessman and political figure

Equality Party of Quebec candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

Ross K. Ladd is a former civil servant and an anglophone rights activist from Cowansville in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Éric Gauthier

Éric Gauthier is a quebecois author who was born in 1975 in Rouyn-Noranda, in the Abitibi region of Quebec.

Fairchild 24

Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey player Bill Barilko and his dentist Henry Hudson disappeared on August 26, 1951, aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane, flying from Seal River, Quebec.

Fernand Daoust

In 1964, he was candidate for president of the Quebec Federation of Labour (Fédération des travailleurs du Québec - FTQ); Louis Laberge was elected president and Daoust was elected vice-president.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

Gerald Heffernan

Gerald "Gerry" Joseph Heffernan (July 24, 1916 in Montreal, Quebec – January 16, 2007 in Moraga, California) was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.

Guy Bisaillon

The following month, the National Assembly of Quebec approved a bill to restrict the franchise in school board elections, such that only Catholics and Protestants would be able to vote in elections for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, respectively.

Jacques Tremblay

Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (1923–2012), former Member of Parliament of Canada and also Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party for Iberville electoral division

Jean Pelletier

He successfully persuaded Chirac to keep quiet during the 1980 Quebec referendum, though Chirac personally supported an independent Quebec like General Charles de Gaulle.

Jean-François Pouliot

He was born in Montreal and studied at Concordia University.

Jean-Guy Carignan

With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.

Jean-Pierre Isaac

Jean-Pierre Isaac has written and/or produced music for many artists, notably the French Gilbert Montagné, Quebec’s Mitsou, Les BB, Celine Dion, Cindy Daniel, Marie Carmen, Mario Pelchat, Judith Berard, Scripture (his solo project featured on "Cafe del Mar", and released album No Word Needed), and many more.

Jean-Yves Laforest

Briefly after TQS, a Quebec-based TV network, announced that it would abolish its information services division, Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec.

Joël Bouchard

He worked for a number of years as a TV hockey analyst for Québec's Le Réseau des sports (RDS), also producing and hosting his own show called "L'Académie de hockey McDonald".

Joseph Robertson

Joseph Gibb Robertson (1820–1899), Scottish-born merchant, farmer and political figure in Quebec

L'Église réformée du Québec

L'Église Réformée du Québec, or "Reformed Church of Quebec", is a small conservative French-speaking Reformed Christian denomination located primarily within the Canadian province of Quebec.

Les Voltigeurs de Québec

War of 1812: Les Voltigeurs de Québec perpetuate the Provincial Corps of Light Infantry (Canadian Voltigeurs), the 1st and 2nd Battalions (City of Quebec) (1812–15), the Beauport Division (1812–15) and the 6th Battalion, Select Embodied Militia.

Louis Boyer

Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Canadian merchant and political figure from Quebec

Madame le Corbeau

On September 9, 1949, Rita Guay was scheduled to board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, at L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City, Quebec, where it made a scheduled stopover during a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau.

No-Neck Blues Band

The most recent releases by the band are Nine for Victor, a recording from a live performance in Quebec & a 2007 deluxe reissue of the band's privately issued "Live at Ken's Electric Lake" originally released a decade earlier (and with a first gatefold photo of the band by Sara Press).

Office québécois de la langue française

Daniel Boyer : Secrétaire général de la (FTQ) (Vice-President of the Québec Federation of Labour)

Pharmacy school

The pharmacy schools in Quebec (at the University of Montreal and Laval University) now offer only the PharmD degree that involves two years of basic sciences and four years of pharmacy education, similar to many programs in the United States.

Philippe Hamel

Philippe Hamel (October 12, 1884 – January 22, 1954) was a nationalist and progressive politician in Quebec, Canada.

Pierre Vincent

Pierre-Vincent Valin (1827–1897), Canadian businessman and political figure from Quebec

Polar Bear Shores

Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien in Quebec rescued the pair as they were not expected to survive in the wilderness alone.

Quebec Route 205

Route 205 is a two-lane north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.

Quebec-class submarine

Other incidents caused oxygen-fueled flames to burst out from the boats, which led to their crews to nickname them zazhigalka ("lighters") or Zippos after the well-known cigarette lighter.

Québec-Montréal

Directed by Ricardo Trogi, the film focuses on nine people, all on the cusp of turning 30 and dealing with complex questions about life and love, whose lives intersect on four separate road trips from Quebec City to Montreal along Quebec Autoroute 20.

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

On March 19, Samson declared himself to be the leader of a new créditiste group, and demanded to be seated in the National Assembly as a member of the "Registered Ralliement créditiste du Québec"', along with two other créditiste MNAs, Aurèle Audet (Abitibi-Ouest) and Bernard Dumont (Mégantic).

Ranunculus allenii

Ranunculus allenii was first described by American botanist Benjamin Lincoln Robinson in 1905, who noted collections in Quebec and Labrador, the first being by one John Alpheus Allen on 23rd July 1881 on Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula.

Robert Layton

In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and was elected to the Federal Parliament in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.

Saint-Henri, Quebec

Saint-Henri, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, a municipality of Quebec in the vicinity of Lévis

Sex Therapy: The Session

Thicke been added as a supporting act on Alicia KeysThe Freedom Tour tour, kicking off on February 28, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with stops at Madison Square Garden and Staples Center.

Simon-Pierre Diamond

In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected to the Quebec legislature, a record he held until the 2012 election of Léo Bureau-Blouin; the previous recordholders had been André Boisclair and Claude Charron.

Steven Lett

Steven Lett (born 1958) is an American diplomat and current head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

William Gerard Power

Born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec City, the son of William Power and Susan Winifred Rockett, Power was educated at the Commercial Academy of Quebec and the College Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal .