* Quebec Mercury, a defunct 19th Century weekly newspaper published in Quebec City, Canada

* 1805-Foundation of The Quebec Mercury ( newspaper ) by Thomas Cary, supporter of the British Tories.

* July 20 – 21 – The Short S. 20 Mercury, flying as a component of the Short Mayo Composite aircraft combination, makes the worlds first commercial heavier-than-air crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean, flying non-stop 4, 667 km ( 2, 900 miles ) from Foynes, Ireland, to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with a 454-kg ( 1000-lb ) payload.

The Quebec Mercury had previously insinuated that the French Canadians and the Americans were plotting against England.

The Quebec Mercury was an English language weekly newspaper published in Quebec City from 1805 to 1863.

* The Quebec Mercury, in the Collection numérique of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

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" In 1821, the Caledonian Mercury wrote of the British Empire, " On her dominions the sun never sets ; before his evening rays leave the spires of Quebec, his morning beams have shone three hours on Port Jackson, and while sinking from the waters of Lake Superior, his eye opens upon the Mouth of the Ganges.

He worked as a journalist at the Quebec Mercury and Le Canadien.

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.

It stirred up controversy by portraying the lives of working class women and attacking the straight-laced, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec.

A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad.

She argues that the Quebec intellectuals of the 1930s and 1940s were far less isolated and more deeply influenced by the intellectual currents in Europe, particularly the nationalism of the extreme right, than is described in most Quebec histories of the period.

The consequences of these three movements deeply modified Quebec society and resulted in a myriad of perspectives by intellectuals and artists in their colonized society.

The conservative Union Nationale governed the province of Quebec in periods from 1936 to 1960, in a close alliance with English Canadian business elites and the Catholic Church.

John A. Macdonald's successful leadership of the movement to confederate the provinces and his subsequent tenure as prime minister for most of the late 19th century rested on his ability to bring together the English-speaking Protestant oligarchy and the ultramontane Catholic hierarchy of Quebec and to keep them united in a conservative coalition.

As with its provincial counterpart, the Bloc Québécois has been supported by a wide range of voters in Quebec, from large sections of organised labour to more conservative rural voters.

His support was based on a " grand coalition " of socially conservative populists from the West, Quebec nationalists, and fiscal conservatives from Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

Groulx's conservative Catholicism was not very appreciative of other religions, although he also acknowledged that racism was not Christian, and he maintained that Quebec should aspire to be a model society by Christian standards, including intense missionary action.

Through his writings and teaching at the university, and his association with the intellectual elite of Quebec he had a profound influence on many people including Michel Chartrand and Camille Laurin although the many young intellectuals he influenced often did not share his conservative leanings, such as his personalist successor at the Université de Montréal, Guy Frégault

It can still be used to describe historical events in Canada, such as the Rebellions of 1837, Western Alienation, Quebec sovereignty movement, and any Aboriginal conflicts in Canada, but is more relevant to current events such as the Caledonia conflict with Natives and the increasing hostility between conservative and liberal Canadians.

Following his death and the subsequent election of a Liberal government under Jean Lesage in 1960, Quebec entered a period later termed the Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille ), a decisive movement away from the conservative policies of Duplessis and toward a secular social democracy.

He successfully led his party into government in the 1970 election, defeating the conservative Union Nationale government and becoming the youngest premier in Quebec history.

Prior to the 1960s, the government of Quebec was controlled by conservative Maurice Duplessis, leader of the Union Nationale party.

Following World War II, while most of the United States and Canada was enjoying a long period of prosperity and modernization, in Quebec, efforts at modernization were held back by the conservative views of politicians and the Catholic Church's position on education.

Mulroney's government was based on a " grand coalition " of socially conservative populists from the West, fiscal conservatives from Atlantic Canada and Ontario, and Quebec nationalists.

His father, Daniel Johnson, Sr., had been the Premier of Quebec from 1966 to 1968 as the leader of the Union Nationale, a conservative political party.

* Daniel, Sr., was leader of the conservative Union Nationale party, and had an ambiguous position on the question of independence for Quebec ;

The Liberal Party took Ontario, the Maritimes and the territories, the separatist Bloc Québécois took Quebec, while the Reform Party took Western Canada and became the dominant conservative party in Canada.

He and Gilberte Côté-Mercier founded a lay Christian group called the " Pilgrims of Saint Michael ", based in Rougemont, Quebec, that promotes social credit monetary policy coupled with conservative Catholicism.

Social Credit was never able to form a provincial government in Quebec due to the near dominance of social conservative votes by the Union Nationale party from the 1930s into the 1960s.

The UFP presented itself as an alternative to the main three parties in Quebec: the centre-left Parti Québécois, the centre-right Quebec Liberal Party, and the conservative Action démocratique du Québec / Equipe Mario Dumont, saying that all three are but different faces of the same right-wing ideology called neoliberalism.

Its strongest base is provided by Chaudière-Appalaches and Québec, the most conservative regions of Quebec.

Because of the polarization of the debate over constitution from 1970 to 1995, conservative voters have often limited their choice between the Quebec Liberal Party or the Parti Québécois.

The rural, conservative and Catholic Quebec of the 19th and early 20th centuries has given way to a confident, cosmopolitan society that has many attributes of a modern, internationally recognized community with a unique culture worth preserving.

The Conservative majority election victories in 1984 and 1988 were based on a " Grand Coalition " between socially conservative populists from the West, Quebec nationalists, and fiscal conservatives from Ontario and the Maritimes, making it difficult for the Mulroney government to balance these diverse interests.

** While the federalist Liberals maintained a plurality in the National Assembly of Quebec and Jean Charest remained Premier, the conservative, Quebec nationalist ADQ successfully replaced the social democratic and sovereigntist Parti Québécois as the Official Opposition ; prior to this election, the ADQ never had more than five Members of the National Assembly.