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100 unusual facts about Québec


Aaron Sweet

He was born in Hemmingford, Canada East, the son of R. Sweet and Eleana Broder, the sister of Andrew Broder.

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.

Acton Vale

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

Adstock

For the municipality in Quebec, see Adstock, Quebec

Aimé Bénard

Bénard was born in Henryville, Quebec, and was educated at the normal school in that community.

Alan Gerber

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

Aliocha Schneider

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

American Ramp Company

Additionally, in August 2008, it was announced that American Ramp Company had purchased Solo Ramps from Nicolet, Quebec, Canada for an undisclosed amount and would move production of the precast concrete operation to their facility in Joplin, MO.

Audet

Audet, Quebec, a small village in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region in Quebec, Canada

Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry

He served as president of the Conservative Party Association of Quebec for several years and was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1878 as a Conservative representing Montmagny, Quebec.

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.

Benoit Dusablon

Benoit Dusablon (born August 1, 1979 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Quebec) was a professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League.

Bostonnais

La Bostonnais, Quebec (municipality), La Tuque (urban agglomeration), Mauricie

Canadian Industries Limited

In order to provide the massive amounts of explosives needed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a new dynamite factory was opened in McMasterville, Quebec.

Cedres

Les Cèdres, Quebec, municipality in the Montérégie of 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.

Château

In Canada, especially in English, château usually denotes a hotel, not a house, and applies only to the largest, most elaborate railway hotels built in the Canadian Railroad golden age, such as the Château Lake Louise, in Lake Louise, Alberta, the Château Laurier, in Ottawa, the Château Montebello, in Montebello, Quebec, and the most famous Château Frontenac, in Quebec City.

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.

Conrad Gugy

In 1980, a street - Rue Conrad Gugy - was named for him in Yamachiche, Quebec.

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.

Dalsa

Headquarters remain in Waterloo, but the company has expanded operations into Billerica, Massachusetts; Sunnyvale, California; Bromont and Montreal, Quebec; and Eindhoven, Netherlands, in addition to sales offices in Germany, Japan, and China.

David Ross McCord

He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.

Duvernay

Duvernay, Quebec, a former city, now a district of Laval, Quebec, Canada

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.

Festivites Western de Saint-Victor

The Festivites Western de Saint-Victor (literally, Saint-Victor Western Festival) are held in Saint-Victor, Quebec, Canada, in July of each year since 1978.

François-Antoine Larocque

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

Governor's School of International Studies

The program has traditionally included a one-week immersion study in Quebec, Canada.

Grosse Ile

Grosse-Île, Quebec, one of two municipalities forming the urban agglomeration of Îles-de-la-Madeleine in Quebec, Canada

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.

Halifax Shipyard

The competing Davie Yards Incorporated in Lauzon, QC experienced similar financial difficulty and spent much of the decade in mothball status.

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.

James Chabot

He was born in Farnham, Quebec, and moved to British Columbia during the 1950s.

Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard

Richard articled as a notary, was qualified to practise in 1898 and set up practice at Saint-Liguori and later L'Épiphanie.

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.

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.

Killiniq

Killiniq, Quebec, a former Inuit reserved land on the eastern shore of Ungava Bay, about 50 kilometres south of Killiniq Island

L'Avenir

L'Avenir, Quebec, municipality located in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec

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.

Mansfield Township

Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Quebec, was formed from the merger of Mansfield Township and Pontefract Township

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais

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

Mary Anne Sadlier

Upon the death of her father, Francis, a merchant, Mary Madden emigrated to Sainte-Marthe, Quebec in 1844, where she married publisher James Sadlier, also from Ireland, on November 24, 1846.

Maurice Harquail

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

Melbourne McTaggart Tait

Born in Melbourne, Canada East, studied at St Francis College and received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from McGill University in 1862.

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 Canadiens centennial

The 2009 NHL All-Star Game was played at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec as part of the celebrations, and the 2009 NHL Entry Draft was held there in late June.

Mooers–Hemmingford Border Crossing

The Mooers–Hemmingford Border Crossing connects the towns of Hemmingford, Quebec to Mooers, New York.

Mother Joseph Pariseau

She was born Esther Pariseau in Saint-Elzéar, Quebec, Canada.

MS Madeleine

The MS Madeleine is a car/passenger ferry owned and operated by C.T.M.A. between Souris and Cap-aux-Meules.

Ontario Highway 65

Rue Ontario ends at Route 101 in Notre-Dame-du-Nord, 2.6 kilometres (2 miles) east of the provincial border.

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.

Pauline Michel

Pauline Michel (born 1944 in Asbestos, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter.

Physella parkeri

The subspecies Physella parkeri latchfordi, also known as the "Gatineau tadpole snail", lives in Quebec, Canada.

Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson, Vicomte de Mouzay

He received his commission as governor of Canada on January 27, 1657, arriving in Quebec in 1658.

Pierre-Andre Fournier

From 1998 to 2003, he was parish priest of Notre-Dame-de-Foy, Saint-Denys, Sainte-Geneviève, and Saint-Mathieu.

ProSlide Technology

The first ProSlide Racer opened in 1994 at ProSlide's Mont Cascades Waterpark in Cantley, Quebec; over 200 Racers have been installed in the years since.

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.

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-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.

Québec-Ouest

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

Quebec, County Durham

The village takes its unusual name from the more famous Canadian city of Quebec.

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.

Robert-Émile Fortin

His mother died before he was two years old and Fortin was raised at the Sainte-Thérèse Orphanage in Aylmer, Quebec and the Saint-Joseph Orphanage in Ottawa.

Ronnie Prophet

In his childhood, Ronnie Prophet lived in Calumet, Quebec and began performing at local venues in his youth.

Roxton

Roxton, Quebec, a township that surrounds the village of Roxton Falls

Saint-Henri, Quebec

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

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

Sainte-Agathe, Quebec

Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Quebec, in the Chaudière-Appalaches region, formed from the 1999 amalgamation of the village and parish named Sainte-Agathe

Sainte-Marie Poutrelles Delta

The Sainte-Marie Poutrelles Delta were a Canadian minor pro ice hockey team in Sainte-Marie, Quebec.

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.

SS Point Pleasant Park

She was built at Davie Ship Building & Repair Co. Ltd. at Lauzon, Quebec and entered service the 8 November 1943.

STV Black Jack

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

Ted Dey

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

Télé-Québec

Other children's shows have included Cornemuse, Zoboomafoo, and Nickelodeon series Dora l'exploratrice and Bob le bricoleur.

Thomas C. Fields

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.

Tout l'monde est malheureux

Tout l'monde est malheureux is an album by the Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, an early music group from Montreal, Quebec led by Gilles Plante.

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).

The Civil Code of Quebec deals specifically with trade secrets in two articles (1472 and 1612); however, none of its provisions define the concept of trade secret.

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.

Walter Bernard Smith

He was born in Hemmingford, Quebec and became a customs officer and merchant by career.

Waterloo 94

Waterloo 94 was a Canadian semi-professional ice hockey team in Waterloo, Quebec.

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.


.280 Ross

Rimless cartridge, is an approximately 7mm bullet diameter rifle round developed in Canada by F.W. Jones as a consultant to Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet, and his Ross Rifle Company of Quebec, Canada for use as a Canadian military cartridge as a replacement for the .303

1906 Birthday Honours

The Honourable Adélard Turgeon, Minister of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada.

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.

Arthur Beauchesne

Born in Carleton, Bonaventure County, Quebec, Beauchesne received a Bachelor's degree from St. Joseph’s College in Memramcook, New Brunswick.

Balsfjord

Their voyage was also noteworthy as the first transatlantic voyage sailing directly from Europe to the port of Chicago (other previous transoceanic ships disembarked first at Quebec, Canada.) After arriving in Chicago, the mindekirken colonists traveled overland to the area of St. Peter, Minnesota, where they remained during the "Dakota War of 1862".

Bar of Quebec

Quebec applicants must be graduates of the law faculty of one of six universities: the University of Montreal, the University of Quebec at Montreal, McGill University, Laval University, the University of Ottawa, or the University of Sherbrooke.

Boom FM

It is the only Boom FM station not using the classic hits format, though its logo uses the same lettering and 45 RPM plastic insert device as its Quebec counterparts.

Civil unions in Quebec

As a result of a range of activism and to the M. v. H. decision, the National Assembly of Quebec voted unanimously in 2002 to amend the Civil Code of Quebec to create a status of civil union in Quebec, available to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and largely having the same rights as marriage.

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.

Concrete canoe

The 2008 National Concrete Canoe Competition was held in Montreal, Quebec and hosted by École de technologie supérieure.

Constitution of Canada

The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.

Cormier

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

François-Albert Angers

François-Albert Angers (May 21, 1909 – July 14, 2003) was an eminent Québécois economist and defender of the cause of Quebec and the French language.

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.

GO Transit

The design was created by Gangon/Valkus, a Montreal-based design firm that was also responsible for the corporate identities of Canadian National and Hydro-Québec.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

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.

Island of Montreal

The first French name for the island was "l'ille de Vilmenon", noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of Quebec at the court of Louis XIII.

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-François Pouliot

He was born in Montreal and studied at Concordia University.

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.

John Hearn

John Gabriel Hearn (1863–1927), a Quebec businessman and political figure

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.

Lamarre

Yvon Lamarre, former Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec

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.

Mon oncle Antoine

The film examines life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos region of rural Québec prior to the Asbestos Strike of the late 1940s.

Peter Šťastný

Peter is the father of Yan Stastny, who made his NHL debut in 2005–06 with the Edmonton Oilers and is currently playing in Nuremberg, Germany, and Paul Stastny, who began his career with the Colorado Avalanche (the same franchise as the Quebec Nordiques, Peter's first NHL team) in 2006–07 and wears the same number (#26).

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.

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, 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.

Québécois nation motion

Leading candidate and political scientist Michael Ignatieff mused that Quebec should be recognized as a nation in the Canadian constitution.

Réal Caouette

In 1958, he broke with Union des électeurs founders Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier, and joined Social Credit forming Ralliement des créditistes as the national party's Quebec wing of which he became the uncontested leader.

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire

Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire (April 10, 1656, Ouanne, Burgundy - August 4, 1718, Rimouski, Quebec) is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, province of Quebec, in Canada.

Résistance internationaliste

In 2004, shortly before U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Canada, a Hydro-Québec electric tower along the Quebec – New England Transmission circuit in the Eastern Townships of Quebec near the Canada-U.S. border was damaged by explosive charges detonated at its base.

Richard Béliveau

Richard Béliveau (born 1953 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is currently the director of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory and a researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Notre-Dame Hospital.

Ross Farm Museum

Lieutenant William Ross chose to transfer to the Nova Scotia Fencible Infantry while in Quebec.

Roxboro

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

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

In France and Quebec, Captain Harlock is known as "Albator, le corsaire de l'espace", to avoid confusion with the completely different character Captain Haddock, and is very popular there.

Steven Lett

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

Students Coalition Against War

The Students Coalition Against War is a Canadian organization with members in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Edmonton, Alberta, Victoria, British Columbia, Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

The Job

La Job, a Quebec adaptation of the British TV series The Office

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 .