* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

Quebec was settled as a French colony, and originally operated under the French civil law system, using the coûtume de Paris.

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

82 % of Canadians outside Quebec speak English natively, but within Quebec the figure drops to just 7. 7 % as most residents are native speakers of Quebec French.

This is particularly the case in eastern Canada apart from Quebec which is French speaking.

English maps rarely show the French names outside of Quebec, which itself is spelled Québec in French.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

British forces seized remaining French control over Acadia in the coming months, with Île-Saint-Jean falling in 1759 to British forces on their way to Quebec City for the Siege of Quebec and ensuing Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The act renamed the northeasterly portion of the former French province of New France as Province of Quebec, roughly coextensive with the lower third of contemporary Quebec.

Significantly, the Quebec Act also replaced the French criminal law presumption of guilty until proven innocent with the English criminal law presumption of innocent until proven guilty ; but the French code or civil law system was retained for non-criminal matters.

In the U. S. insular area of Puerto Rico, the show was redubbed in Spanish, and in Quebec ( where Digimon Adventure aired on TQS, and Digimon 02 on TÉLÉTOON ), the show was redubbed in French.

In Quebec, Canada and in France there is a French movement with the founder Olivier Manitara and The Essene Spirit.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

* 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

Large-scale emigration, principally to the United States, and Canada ( predominantly to Quebec, with other areas of the country )-but also to Cuba, other areas of Europe and the Americas such as France ( with French Guiana ), Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Ireland ; and Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and other Caribbean neighbors-has created what Haitians refer to as the Eleventh Department or the Diaspora.

In the North American theatre, France was allied with various Native American peoples during the Seven Years ' War and, despite a temporary success at the battles of the Great Meadows and Monongahela, French forces were defeated at the disastrous Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec.

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

( 2004 ) " New Left, not new liberal: 1960s movements in English Canada and Quebec ," Canadian Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 41, no.

According to Harper, the motion was of a symbolic political nature, representing no constitutional change, no recognition of Quebec sovereignty, and no legal change in its political relations within the federation.

Formerly it was used to refer solely to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario and Western Canada, but is no longer usually felt to exclude Acadian French, which is also spoken in some areas of eastern Quebec.

Although Quebec French constitutes a coherent and standard system, it has no objective norm since the very organization mandated to establish it, the Office québécois de la langue française, believes that objectively standardizing Quebec French would lead to reduced interintelligibility with other French communities around the world, linguistically isolating Quebecers and possibly causing the extinction of the French language in the Americas.

In general, European French speakers have no problems understanding Quebec newscasts or other moderately formal Québécois speech.

The morphology though is thoroughly Quebec French and not related to Acadian French: Absence of AF 1st person plural clitic je instead of QF on, no AF plural endings in-on on 1st and 3rd person verbs, no simple pasts in-i -, etc.

* Rupert River ( Quebec )-diverted in 2007 for hydroelectric development and no longer a popular destination

Since the passage of a 1981 provincial law, intended to promote gender equality as outlined in the Quebec Charter of Rights, no change may be made to a person's name without the authorization of the registrar of civil status or the authorization of the court.

Mulroney, a Quebec businessman with no elected political experience, was unable to expand his base of support significantly.

This is why some people still affirm today, falsely, that from the early settlements until the 1820s, Quebec had virtually no literature.

In spite of its name, it offers no direct international flight, although it used to offer a nonstop flight to Montreal, Quebec.

At this point there was no railway link from Quebec City to Halifax, and the people of each region had little to do with one another.

In Quebec, however, like America and modern France, there is no tradition of split professions, though a distinction is sometimes made between an avocat plaidant " trial lawyer " and an avocat-conseil or conseiller juridique " legal consultant ".

Vermont's border with Quebec was established at 45 degrees north latitude, which explains why this county has no dry-land connection to the rest of the United States.

Graduates of two-year college programs often receive up to one year of advanced standing at universities outside of Quebec, but no more than this.

In a fourth type, sometimes seen at intersections in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, there is no dedicated left-turn lamp per se.

To this day, no Quebec premier of any political side has endorsed the 1982 constitutional amendment.

After him, no political party in Quebec elections at the provincial level had managed to win more than two terms of office in a row until the December 2008 victory of Jean Charest's Liberal party, its third consecutive win.

However, the " Ramat de la Typographie ", a rather popular document among Quebec typesetters and graphic designers, recommends following the European French rule and insert fine spaces before semicolons and exclamation marks, among others.

The song, with its lyrics about winds, cold, snow, and ice, of the solitude of wide open spaces and of the ideal of brotherhood, has become a kind of anthem in Quebec, with many people seeing it as expressing the free spirit of the province ; Vigneault, however, has denied that this was ever his intention.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

Its headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Only eight municipalities in Quebec are divided into boroughs.

In the province of Quebec, even when speaking in English, colleges are called Cégeps for Collège d ' enseignement général et professionnel, meaning " College of General and Vocational Education ".

Smaller events are mounted in other parks around the city and in Gatineau, Quebec

Genetic distance calculations have indicated red wolves are intermediate between coyotes and gray wolves, and they bear great similarity to wolf / coyote hybrids in southern Quebec and Minnesota.

Cranberries are a major commercial crop in the U. S. states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec.

The general formula is set out in section 38 ( 1 ), known as the " 7 / 50 formula ", requires: ( a ) assent from both the House of Commons and the Senate ; ( b ) the approval of two-thirds of the provincial legislatures ( at least seven provinces ) representing at least 50 % of the population ( effectively, this would include at least Quebec or Ontario, as they are the most populous provinces ).

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

Conservatories, which are the standard musical training system in France and in Quebec ( Canada ) provide lessons and amateur orchestral experience for double bass players.

At present, there exist several dubbing software solutions, among which are dubStudio ( developed in Quebec, Canada ) and Synchronos ( developed in France ).

Holocene marine fossils are known from Vermont, Quebec, Ontario, Maine, New Hampshire, and Michigan.

Examples of institutions that provide post-secondary education are vocational schools, community colleges, independent colleges ( e. g. institutes of technology ), and universities in the United States, the institutes of technical and further education in Australia, CEGEPs in Quebec, and the IEKs in Greece.

Games of shinney are also known to have been played on the St. Lawrence River at Montreal and Quebec City and in Kingston and Ottawa in Ontario.

Its headquarters are located in the Quartier International of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

* 1866 – 1, 800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

* 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

Joual () is the common name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for a large number of artists from that area.