Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

* Feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist ( Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec ) June 24.

Fuchs was put into camps on the Isle of Man and later in Quebec, Canada, from June to December 1940.

Michel Tremblay, CQ ( born in Montreal, Quebec 25 June 1942 ) is a Canadian novelist and playwright.

* May 26 – June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.

* June 5 – The first annual NHL draft is held in Montreal, Quebec.

* June 21 – The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

* June 22 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.

* June 2 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

* June 3 – The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.

On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

General Burgoyne led 7, 800 British and Hessian forces south from Quebec in June 1777.

Less than a month later, on 28 June 1775, Chief Justice William Hey wrote to the Lord Chancellor from Quebec:

In June 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a Quebec law preventing people from buying private health insurance to pay for medical services available through the publicly funded system and this ruling does not apply outside the province.

In 1925, 91 years after the Ludger Duvernay's banquet in Montreal, June 24 became a legal holiday in Quebec.

In 1977, an Order in Council by Lieutenant Governor Hugues Lapointe, on the advice of René Lévesque, declared June 24 the national holiday in Quebec.

In June 2009, Quebec bands Lake of Stew and Bloodshot Bill, whose members are English-speaking and bilingual Quebeckers, were added to the program of a local celebration of Quebec's National Day in Montreal called L ' Autre St-Jean (" The Other St-Jean ").

On June 27, 2001, the Canadian government unveiled a monument in Jacques-Cartier Park, in Hull, Quebec, honouring Richard, and he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

The outcome of those negotiations was the Cree-Naskapi ( of Quebec ) Act (" CNQA "), which was assented to by Parliament on 14 June 1984.

Fox left the Maritimes on June 10 and faced new challenges entering Quebec due to his group's inability to speak French and drivers who continually forced him off the road.

The Canadian Senate is structured along regional lines, giving an equal number of seats ( 24 ) to the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, and western Canada, in addition to the later entry of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the three territories.

* July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.

Expanded the Canadian Senate by giving the Western Canadian provinces 24 Senators, the same number that had been guaranteed to Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces.

Marc Gagnon ( born May 24, 1975 in Chicoutimi, Quebec ) is a French Canadian short track speed skater.

On 24 and 25 November, Queen played two sell out nights at the Montreal Forum, Quebec, Canada.

Dominion elections were held in August and September to elect the first Parliament, and the four new provinces ' governments recommended the 72 individuals ( 24 each for Quebec and Ontario, 12 each for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ) who would sit in the Senate.

The 3 / 9 ratio persists even though just 24 percent of Canada's population resides in Quebec.

René Lévesque (; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987 ) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, ( 1960 – 1966 ), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec ( November 25, 1976 – October 3, 1985 ).

Émile Nelligan ( December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941 ) was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada.

Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son, Prince George, Prince of Wales, dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then presenting the title deeds of the lands to the Earl Grey.

These Divisions are Quebec, Ontario, Western Provinces, and the Maritimes, each with 24 Senators, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, each with 1 Senator, and Newfoundland and Labrador has 6 Senators, making for a total of 105 Senators.

John James " Jean " Charest, PC (; born June 24, 1958 ) is a Canadian politician who served as the 29th Premier of Quebec, from 2003 to 2012.

He was ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec on May 24, 2009.

In Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Quebec ( Canada ), the traditional Midsummer day, June 24, is a public holiday.

In Quebec, Canada, the celebration of June 24 was brought to New France by the first French colonists.

In 1925, June 24 became a legal holiday in Quebec and in 1977, it became the secular National Holiday of Quebec.

National Aboriginal Day is now part of a series of Celebrate Canada days, beginning with National Aboriginal Day and followed by the National Holiday of Quebec on June 24, Canadian Multiculturalism Day on June 27, and concluding with Canada Day on July 1.

Quebec's refusal to agree to the new constitution became a source of continued acrimony between the federal and Quebec governments.

This status was renewed and reinforced by the Quebec Act of 1774, which expanded Quebec's territory to include part of the Indian Reserve to the west ( i. e., parts of southern Ontario ), and other western territories south of the Great Lakes including much of what would become the United States ' Northwest Territory, including the modern states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota.

While Quebec French borrowed many English-language brand names during this time, Quebec's first modern terminological efforts bore a French lexicon for ( ice ) hockey, one of the national sports of Canada.

Quebec's culture has only recently gained exposure in Europe, especially since the Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille ), and the difference in dialects and culture is large enough that Quebec French speakers overwhelmingly prefer their own " home grown " television dramas or sitcoms to shows from Europe.

The Bloc Québécois (, Quebec Bloc ) is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty.

For the 2004 election the Bloc adopted the slogan Un parti propre au Québec, a play on words that can be translated either as " A party of Quebec's own " (" a party proper to Quebec ") or as " A clean party in Quebec ".

Richler's long-running dispute with Quebec nationalists was fueled by magazine articles he published in American publications between the late 1970s and mid 1990s, in which he criticized Quebec's language laws, and the rise of separatism.

Because she strongly desired to campaign for the " No " forces in the weeks leading up to Quebec's 1980 referendum on separation from Canada, Sauvé initially refused the offer of running for the non-partisan position, but eventually acquiesced after Trudeau convinced her that she was the right person for the job and she received permission from the leaders of all the parties in the House of Commons to engage in the federalist campaign in Quebec.

With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendments to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.

In one case, the Quebec National Assembly invoked this power to override a Supreme Court decision ( Ford v. Quebec ( A. G .)) that held that one of Quebec's language laws banning the display of English commercial signs was inconsistent with the charter.

The Quebec law is substantially different in structure than that of California or other jurisdictions, however as Quebec's Constitution generally subordinates itself to international law, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights applies.

On June 22, 2010, Hydro-Québec and the government of Quebec commemorated Lévesque's role in Quebec's Quiet Revolution and his tenure as premier by renaming the 1244-megawatt Manic-3 generating station in his honour.

Lévesque was disappointed with the cold response by the American economic elite to his first speech in New York City as Premier of Quebec, in which he compared Quebec's march towards sovereignty to the American Revolution.

The city is home to Dawson College, Quebec's largest CEGEP, and Marianopolis College ; Westmount High School with its sister elementary school Westmount Park School ; Place Alexis Nihon and office towers ; some of the most prestigious private schools in Quebec, including Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School, Selwyn House School, Villa Sainte-Marcelline and The Study ; and Westmount Square residential towers and shopping complex, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and funded largely by Westmount resident Samuel Bronfman, the founder of the Seagram liquor empire.

Lesage's election campaign ushered the Quiet Revolution, which began to change the traditional domination of Quebec's economy by English-speaking Quebeckers, and the traditional domination of the public lives of French-speaking Quebecers by the Roman Catholic Church was replaced by a larger role for the government of Quebec.

Paul Sauvé later took over the role of Premier in July It is generally accepted that the revolution ended before the October Crisis of 1970, but Quebec's society has continued to change dramatically since then, notably with the rise of the sovereignty movement, evidenced by the election of the Separatist Parti Québécois ( first in 1976 ), the formation of a separatist political party representing Quebec on the federal level, the Bloc Québécois ( formed in 1991 ), as well as the 1980 and 1995 Sovereignty Referendums.

As a result of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, Canada moved toward a greater degree of administrative decentralization, with Quebec often opting out of important federal initiatives and instituting its own, as with the Quebec Pension Plan.

The combination of Quebec's low tuition rates, which are regulated, and the Quebec government's level of postsecondary funding, felt by many to be chronically low and even incompatible with the decision to limit tuition rates, has led to sustained efforts by the Faculty administration to rely on individual philanthropists and alumni to remain competitive with peer institutions.