Quebec
About the Province of Quebec:
Nickname
Maps of Canada and all the provinces: http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/mapmenu.html
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Capital:
Official language: French
Population
Size in Area
Location of the Province of Quebec:
Climate
Physical Features
Largest City: Montreal
Economy
Famous Places to Visit-
Famous People
Quebec Provincial Flower
Quebec Provincial Bird
Quebec Provincial Tree
Canadian Provincial Flags
- Quebec is the largest Canadian province in area, and the second largest in population. Quebec is a mainly French-speaking society, and the defence of its language and culture colours all politics in the province.
Nickname
Maps of Canada and all the provinces: http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/mapmenu.html
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Capital:
- Québec City
Official language: French
- http://www.officiallanguages.nb.ca/faq
- "First of all, each of Canada's 10 provinces and three territories adopts its own official language policy and only Quebec recognizes French as its official language. Quebec is the only place in Canada where French is the sole official language."
- from http://gocanada.about.com/od/canadatravelplanner/a/Language-In-Canada.htm
Population
- Population of Quebec: 7,903,001 (Statistics Canada, 2011 Census)
Size in Area
- Area of Quebec: 1,356,547.02 sq. km (523,765.73 sq. miles) (Statistics Canada, 2011 Census)
Location of the Province of Quebec:
- between Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay on the west and Labrador and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east, and between Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay on the north and New Brunswick and the United States on the south
- see map of the province of Quebec
Climate
- QUEBEC CLIMATE AND WEATHER
Covering such a huge area the climate of Quebec has wide temperature variations. In the south, where most of the population lives, the weather is continental, with four seasons varying from hot summers (June to August) to cold, snowy winters and lots of rain. The central region has longer colder winters and shorter cooler summers, while the far north experiences a severe Arctic climate with a freezing winter and continuous permafrost. Winter can vary from five months in the south to eight months in the north, averaging between 14ºF (-10ºC) and -13ºF (-25ºC).
Read more: http://www.wordtravels.com#ixzz3FN3aVp25
Physical Features
- Bodies of water- major oceans, seas, lakes, & rivers
- Largest Lake: Lac Mistassini - 2,335 Square Kilometres
- Mountains/landforms
Largest City: Montreal
- Location
- Population: 1,717,767 (2013)
- Interesting facts
Economy
- Main Quebec Industries: Agriculture, manufacturing, energy, mining, forestry, transportation
Famous Places to Visit-
- Images of Places in each Province: http://www.travel-images.com/canada.html
Famous People
- Sidney Altman – The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1989 - shared with Thomas R. Cech for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
“I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. My mother worked in a textile mill and my father in a grocery store before they met and married.
“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education.”
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1989/index.html - Rudolph A. Marcus – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 – for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.
Marcus was born in Montreal, Canada, where he attended McGill University.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1992/marcus-autobio.html
- More famous people from Quebec: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/province/pqzfamous.htm
Quebec Provincial Flower
- Blue Flag (replaced the fleur-de-lis)
Quebec Provincial Bird
Quebec Provincial Tree
Canadian Provincial Flags