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Quebec, The Province, The People, The History
Title: Quebec, The Province, The People, The History
Category: Society & Culture / Geography
Details: Words: 593 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Quebec, The Province, The People, The History
Quebec, The Province, The People, The History
Quebec is a province in eastern Canada, bordered on the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; on the east by Labrador (Which is a part of Newfoundland), the Strait of Belle Isle, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; on the south by New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Ontario; and on the west by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay.
The name Quebec is derived from an Algonquian term for 'place where the river …showed first 85 words of 593 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 593 total…per sq MI); the distribution of population, however, was uneven, with the majority concentrated in the extreme southeast of Quebec, mainly due to extreme temperature in the north. French was the main native language of about 81% of the people; about 9% had English as their only native language. Most of the English-speaking people live in Montreal and the Eastern Townships, because English is very common here. Quebec's largest cities are: Montreal, the largest city in Canada; Laval; Quebec City, the provincial capital; Longueuil; Gatineau; and Montreal-Nord.
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