The Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, of Quebec, is the only Quebec First Nations community that has signed a comprehensive land claims settlement, the Northeastern Quebec Agreement ; they did so in 1978.

A pivotal event in the history of the Naskapis occurred in early 1975, when, after separate visits to Schefferville by Billy Diamond, Grand Chief, Grand Council of the Crees ( of Quebec ) (" GCCQ "), and Charlie Watt, President, Northern Quebec Inuit Association (" NQIA "), the Naskapis decided to become involved in the negotiations leading to the signature of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (" JBNQA ").

The result of the negotiations was the Northeastern Quebec Agreement (" NEQA "), which was executed on 31 January 1978.

The outcome of those negotiations was the Agreement Respecting the Implementation of the Northeastern Quebec Agreement (" ARINEQA "), which was executed in September 1990.

The Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach ( the " Nation ") ( originally known as the “ Naskapis de Schefferville Indian Band ” and later as the “ Naskapi Band of Quebec ”) is a First Nation with a population of approximately 850 registered Indians, who are also beneficiaries of the Northeastern Quebec Agreement (" NEQA ").

Bourassa initiated the James Bay hydroelectric project in 1971 that led to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement of 1975 with the Cree and Inuit inhabitants of the region.

It also resulted in the Quebec Agreement to share nuclear technology

Cree arguments generally do not claim the right to secede from Canada ; rather, the Crees see themselves as a people bound to Canada by treaty ( see the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement ), and as citizens of Canada.

His objections were swept aside by Roosevelt, who brokered the Quebec Agreement with Churchill, that restored full cooperation.

* 1988-Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement is negotiated, with broad support from both sides of the political spectrum in Quebec.

Since 2001, all jurisdictions ( except Quebec ) have agreed to and signed, the Mutual Recognition Agreement among Opticianry Regulators that ensures labour mobility to all opticians across the entire nation without need for further examination.

The Quebec Agreement of 1943 paved the way for the two countries to develop atomic weapons side by side, the United Kingdom handing over vital documents from its own Tube Alloys project and sending a delegation to assist in the work of the Manhattan Project.

He subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production in which capacity he served on the combined policy committee set up by the British and United States governments under the Quebec Agreement of 1943 to oversee the construction of the atomic bomb.

Churchill and Roosevelt also secretly signed the Quebec Agreement to share nuclear technology.

The Quebec Agreement in 1943 had led to more co-operation with America, though most of the British Mission scientists were based at Berkeley or Los Alamos.

However, in July 1943, in London, American officials cleared up some major misunderstandings about British motives, and after many months of negotiations the Quebec Agreement was finally signed by Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 19 August 1943.

In a section of the Quebec Agreement formally entitled " Articles of Agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the USA and UK in the matter of Tube Alloys ", Britain and the USA agreed to share resources " to bring the Tube Alloys the Atomic Bomb project to fruition at the earliest moment.

In the 1942 Quebec Agreement, the United Kingdom and the United States agreed to develop the " Tube Alloys " Project and created a committee to manage the project which included C. D.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

* 1945 – Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive

Until the second half of the 20th century, the majority of Francophone Quebec workers lived below the poverty line and did not join the executive ranks of the businesses of their own province.

As executive director of the party's Quebec wing, she was one of the architects of Thomas Mulcair's historic victory in a 2007 Outremont by-election and was widely credited with setting the groundwork for the party's 2011 sweep of the province.

Pettigrew was director of the Political Committee, NATO Assembly, in Brussels, from 1976 to 1978, executive assistant to the Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1978 to 1981 and Foreign Policy Advisor to Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, from 1981 to 1984.

It is an executive jet operator offering aircraft charter, aircraft maintenance, aircraft management, outsourced flight operations, flight crew scheduling, technical and airline pilot training services to major airlines, corporations and individuals in Toronto, Ontario ( CYYZ ), Halifax, Nova Scotia ( CYHZ ) and Montreal, Quebec ( CYUL ).

Under the direction of the Toronto executive, the Montreal Place d ' Armes office oversees the bank's economic ( and, to some extent, political ) relation with the province of Quebec.

Prior to establishment of the Intendant of New France and the Sovereign Council, the Governor shared legislative, executive and judicial powers with the old Council of Quebec, which was established by the royal statues of 1647 and 1648 .< ref >" Jean Talon.

From 1960 to 1962, he was the executive secretary for the Commission des Monuments Historiques de la Province de Québec, a society for the listing and preserving all buildings of historical interest in the province of Quebec.

In 2005, he was appointed executive officer of the Quebec Forest Council, a private association defending the forestry industry.

Edson Loy Pease ( 1856 – 1930 ), a Quebec native, was a chief executive and managing director of the bank and one of the key people in its history.

Her parents separated when she was 14, Peter became a Vancouver advertising executive and Joan took up yoga instructing near Quebec.

Bryan Clarence Murray ( born December 5, 1942 in Shawville, Quebec, Canada ) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and executive.

He was Director-General of a credit union in La Chaudière from 1962 to 1970, and member of the administrative and executive councils of a Quebec credit union federation ( Fédération des caisses d ' établissement du Québec ) from 1968 to 1970.

He had intended to run at the party's leadership convention but refused to run and resigned as interim leader when the party's executive council decided to hold the convention earlier rather than later and hold it in Winnipeg, Manitoba instead of Quebec where most party members ( and all of its Members of Parliament ) lived.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Layton, the son of Philip Edward David Layton and Alice Marion Gilbert, was a merchant and business executive in the family firm of Layton Brothers ( founded 1887, now as Layton Audio ) from 1918 to 1932.

The Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec () is the member of the Cabinet of Canada who also serves as the chief executive of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec.

As executive director of the party's Quebec wing, she was one of the architects of Thomas Mulcair's historic victory in the 2007 Outremont by-election and was widely credited with setting the groundwork for the party's historic breakthrough in the province in the 2011 election.

Several companies filed proposals, and early in 1981, the CRTC licensed the proposal by Canadian Satellite Communications Inc, a consortium of Canadian broadcasting companies including Allarcom of Edmonton, WIC Western International Communications of Vancouver, Maclean Hunter of Toronto, Selkirk Broadcasting of Toronto, Telemedia of Montreal, Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien, a Quebec broadcast executive, and Rolf Hougen, a businessman whose interests included CKRW Radio and WHTV Cablevision of Whitehorse.

The party had no success in winning election to the National Assembly of Quebec, and in the spring of 1990, asked the Direction of Elections of Quebec to dissolve the party because it no longer had enough members to form an executive committee.

Many in the national party executive considered Parizeau's amendments as reflecting a narrower view of Quebec nationalism.

F. David Radler ( born 1944 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian executive and close associate of Conrad Black for 36 years.

When that local government moved against the authority of the Catholic Church in Quebec, Kelly wrote to Panet, " It is time that a dike was erected against that body, ambitious and intoxicated by its success with the ministers ... it is trying to invade everything and take to itself not only the legislative and ecclesiastical power, but also the executive and judicial power.