* 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.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

For Canadian use and as a second source for US missiles, Canadair was selected to build the missiles in Quebec.

Suddenly a new winter sport was born, centred in Quebec.

The territory now forming Ontario was originally part of Quebec, and thus was under the civil law.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

Essentially, every country that was colonised at some time by England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom uses common law except those that were formerly colonised by other nations, such as Quebec ( which follows the law of France in part ), South Africa and Sri Lanka ( which follow Roman Dutch law ), where the prior civil law system was retained to respect the civil rights of the local colonists.

The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

In 1871, Canada's first formal census was conducted, which counted the population of Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

Quebec was the first province to enact class proceedings legislation in 1978.

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.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

The existence of an unwritten constitution was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Reference re Secession of Quebec.

Then in London, Astor at once made a contract with the Northwest Company of Montreal and Quebec ( then the magnate of the Canadian Northwest fur trade ).

He traveled to Quebec once, Cape Cod four times, and Maine three times ; these landscapes inspired his " excursion " books, A Yankee in Canada, Cape Cod, and The Maine Woods, in which travel itineraries frame his thoughts about geography, history and philosophy.

Michel Gauthier, once Bloc's leader, was a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 until 1988.

The Surf continued their success finishing 51-43 ( 4th overall record ) and once again in the playoffs, this time losing to the Quebec Capitales 3 games to 1 in the opening round.

The region now known as Brownstown was, like surrounding areas in Michigan, once a part of the French Province Quebec.

The George River reindeer herd in the tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada, once numbered world ’ s largest 8-900, 000 animals, stands December 2011 at 74, 000 – a drop of up to 92 % because of Iron-ore mining, flooding for hydro-power and road-building.

Areas once belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, northern parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota.

Education in Ontario once involved an Ontario Academic Credit ( OAC ) as university preparation, but that was phased out in 2007, and now all provinces except Quebec have 12 grades.

Having amassed an army of over 7, 000 troops in Quebec, Burgoyne was also led to believe by reports that he could rely on the support of large numbers of Native Americans and American Loyalists who would rally to the flag once the British came south.

Angélique was thus sent off to Quebec City where, a week later, the appeals court confirmed their belief in Angélique ’ s guilt while reducing somewhat the savagery of the trial court ’ s sentence, so that Angélique was no longer to have her hand cut off or be burnt alive, but rather to be hanged and once dead, her body burned and the ashes scattered.

When, therefore, on October 17, 1689, Frontenac arrived in Quebec as governor for the second time, he received an enthusiastic welcome, and confidence was at once restored in the public mind.

Critics of Martin's cuts claimed that he was in a distinct conflict of interest as his family through Canada Steamship Lines and various subsidiary and affiliated companies had once had a significant investment in the Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines, an intercity bus line in Quebec and eastern Ontario that is a key competitor of Via Rail.

Only once, in 1939, did she return to the Quebec area.

Mohawks at Oka, however, felt betrayed at the loss of their most effective bargaining chip in the Mercier Bridge: once traffic began flowing again, the Quebec government rejected further negotiations pursuant to their original dispute concerning the Oka golf course expansion.

The term " dépanneur " was once restricted to French-speaking environments ; however, over the years it spread to the English-speaking communities and became part of Quebec English and the English culture of Quebec.

Distributors had steadfastly opposed this measure, but once it took effect they found that their total sales of tickets for any given movie jumped dramatically in Quebec.

She was occasionally a controversial figure, once pointing out that Quebec Premier Jean Charest's first name was really " John " in an attempt to discredit him as a representative of the " true " Quebec.

Southern Ontario was once called Upper Canada and later Canada West, and southern Quebec Lower Canada and later Canada East.

* Pingualuit crater, Meteor crater once known as the New Quebec Crater, Ungava Crater, and Chubb Crater

Her achievements were also instrumental in increasing the popularity of the sport both nationwide and in her native Quebec where what was once a remote destination in the Laurentian mountains for only a limited few became a thriving ski area with an abundance of quality facilities that attracts hundreds of thousands of skiers every winter.

After losing the 1970 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election to Robert Bourassa, Wagner left politics to return to the bench, receiving appointment once more as a Sessions Court judge.

The UN had once dominated Quebec provincial politics, but in the 1973 election, it lost all of the seats that it had held in the previous National Assembly.