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99 unusual facts about Quebec


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.

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.

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.

Bernard John McQuaid

After his college course at Chambly, Quebec, young McQuaid entered St. John's Seminary, Fordham, and was ordained in old St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, 16 January 1848.

Canadian contract law

Quebec, being a civil law jurisdiction, does not have contract law, but rather has its own law of obligations that is codified in the Quebec Civil Code.

Cedres

Les Cèdres, Quebec, municipality in the Montérégie of Quebec, Canada

Champ Car Mont-Tremblant 07

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

Channel 78

CBEFT (Radio-Canada Windsor) first aired on Channel 78 in 1976, moved to channel 54 in 1982 and by 1996 had become a simple rebroadcaster of CBOFT Ottawa-Hull.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Éric Gauthier

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Governor's School of International Studies

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

Greenfield Park

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

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.

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.

James Thomas Brown

He was born in Huntingdon, Quebec, the son of Samuel Brown and Margaret White, and was educated there and at McGill University.

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 Marmette

Born in Montmagny, Canada East, Marmette was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and Regiopolis College.

Joseph Miville Dechene

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

L'Avenir

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

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).

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930 in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Malartic

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

Maritime Central Airways Flight 315

On August 11, 1957, the aircraft operating this flight, a Douglas DC-4, crashed in bad weather near Issoudun, Quebec, killing all 79 people on board.

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.

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.

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.

Montreal West High School

Most of the abuse reportedly occurred at the teacher's cabin in Morin-Heights according to victims and former students who talked to the media.

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.

Normand Laprise

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

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

Pascal Edmond

Edmond later moved to Canada where he is the director of the golf academy at Les Quatre Domaines in Mirabel, Quebec.

Paul Ahmarani

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

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 Guerout

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

Pierre-Andre Fournier

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

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.

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.

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.

Ronnie Prophet

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

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

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

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, Lévis, Quebec, a former municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec which now forms part of the city of Lévis

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.

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.

SS Point Pleasant Park

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Zoe Whittall

Whittall was born in 1976 in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and spent her childhood on a farm on the outskirts of South Durham.


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.

Arthur Beauchesne

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

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.

Baron Byng High School

Frederick Lowy, medical educator and president & vice-chancellor of Concordia University

Bator Sambuev

In 2009 he tied another game, this time playing against Joshua Friedel at the PWC Toronto Open and did it again next year with Merab Gagunashvili and Anton Kovalyov at the Quebec Invitational.

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.

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

CHLN

CKOB-FM, a radio station (106.9 FM) licensed to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, which formerly held the call sign CHLN-FM

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.

Clément Richard

Richard was president and founder of MétéoMédia, Expotech Imax and the Quebec book publishing company Mondia.

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

Edgy Women

Past performers include actress Marie Brassard, Jess Dobkin (performance artist), Céline Bonnier (actress), Dayna Mcleod (performance artist), Sylvette Babin (performance artist), Coral Short (performance artist), WWKA (Women With Kitchen Appliances), Les Fermières Obsédées (Quebec City), Lazlo Pearlman (UK), and Jen Miller (USA).

Étienne-Théodore Pâquet

He dabbled into various commercial ventures: aforementioned wood commerce, the Lévis and Kennebec Railway (auctioned off in 1881 to the Quebec Central Railway) and the Quebec Mining Co. amongst others.

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.

Henri-Benjamin Rainville

Born in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, Quebec, the son of Felix Rainville, a farmer of French descent from Touques (Calvados), and Marie Daignault, Rainville obtained his elementary and classical education at the colleges of St. Hyacinthe and Ste.

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-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.

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.

Le Journal de Montréal

This change was accompanied by the addition of several new columnists, including journalist and television host Richard Martineau, former Quebec government ministers Yves Séguin and Joseph Facal, former federal government Minister Sheila Copps,former hockey player Guy Lafleur and the ex-hacker Mafiaboy.

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.

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.

North Shore Lions

The North Shore Lions football organization is currently a member of the QBFL (Quebec Bantam Football League) operating in the West Island of Montreal, Canada.

Office québécois de la langue française

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

Pierre Vincent

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

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.

Québécois nation motion

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas De Koninck

According to a well known rumor, he would have inspired Antoine de Saint-Exupery for the creation of The Little Prince when Saint-Exupery was living in the house of Charles De Koninck in Québec city, in 1942 (see La transcendance de l'homme : études en hommage à Thomas De Koninck, Jean-François Mattéi et Jean-Marc Narbonne (ed.)).