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    Qualicum Beach

    Qualicum Beach, BC, incorporated as a town in 1983, population 8687 (2011c), 8502 (2006c). The Town of Qualicum Beach is located on the east coast of VANCOUVER ISLAND, 48 km north of NANAIMO. The name Qualicum is a Straits Salish (see SALISH, CENTRAL COAST) word meaning "where the dog salmon run.

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    Qu'Appelle River

    The Qu'Appelle River, 430 km long, rises in Lake Diefenbaker and meanders generally east across southern Saskatchewan, joining the Assiniboine River just east of the Manitoba border. 

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    Quarry of the Ancestors Archaeological Site

    The Quarry of the Ancestors is a 199-ha area located 48 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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    Quebec

    Quebec is the largest province in Canada. Its territory represents 15.5 per cent of the surface area of Canada and totals more than 1.5 million km2. Quebec shares borders with Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. The province also neighbours on four American states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. The name Quebec was inspired by an Algonquian word meaning “where the river narrows.” The French in New France used it solely to refer to the city of Quebec. The British were the first to use the name in a broader sense.

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    Quebec

    Quebec is the largest Canadian province. At 1.5 million km², its territory accounts for 15.5 per cent of Canada's total area. The province shares borders with Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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    Quebec Act, 1774

    The Quebec Act received royal assent on 22 June 1774. It revoked provisions in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that had aimed to assimilate the French-Canadian population under English rule. The Quebec Act was put into effect on 1 May 1775. It was passed to gain the loyalty of the French-speaking majority of the Province of Quebec. Based on recommendations from Governors James Murray and Guy Carleton, the Act guaranteed the freedom of worship and restored French property rights. However, the Act was unpopular in the Thirteen American Colonies and was one of the causes of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It was followed by the Constitutional Act in 1791. This is the full-length entry about the Quebec Act of 1774. For a plain language summary, please see The Quebec Act, 1774 (Plain-Language Summary).

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    Québec Citadel National Historic Site of Canada

    The Citadel has been an active military base since 1920. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada designated the uneven star-shaped Citadel as a national historic site in 1946 but its importance was recognized much earlier, and it was one of Canada's first heritage conservation projects.

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    Quebec City

    Quebec City, Quebec, founded in 1608, population 549,459 (2021 census), 531,902 (2016 census). Quebec City, the capital of the province of Quebec, is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River where it meets the Rivière Saint-Charles. Here, the St. Lawrence narrows to a width of just over 1 km, and navigation is made difficult by a group of islands, the largest of which is Île d'Orléans. Cap-Diamant, a promontory with an elevation of 98 m, dominates the site and was used effectively as a fortification, earning Quebec City the name "Gibraltar of North America." The name "Quebec" is probably derived from an Algonquian word meaning "narrowing of the river."

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    Quebec City's Chinatown

    Quebec City’s Chinatown was an unofficial enclave and network of Chinese residents, businesses and institutions in Quebec City’s Saint-Roch neighbourhood. In the 1930s, the Chinatown was mainly concentrated along Rue Saint-Vallier Est and the Côte d’Abraham. Though, as it grew, its boundaries became unclear. Other notable streets of the area also included Rue du Pont, Rue de la Couronne and Boulevard Charest Est. From the 1970s onward, factors like urban renewal projects and provincial policies contributed to a changing neighbourhood. These resulted in the slow dispersal of the Chinese community in Saint-Roch and the disappearance of Quebec City’s Chinatown. Today, there is little physical trace of the community’s existence.

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    Music in Quebec City

    Quebec City. Capital of the province of Quebec. It was founded 3 Jul 1608 by the French navigator Samuel de Champlain on the site of the Indigenous village of Stadaconé at the mouth of the St Charles River.

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    Quebec City Mosque Shooting

    The Quebec City mosque shooting took place in 2017 at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, located in the suburb of Sainte-Foy. The gunman pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history, described as an act of terrorism by both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard. The event prompted widespread public debate around Islamophobia, racism and the rise of right-wing terrorism in Canada.

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    Quebec City-Windsor Corridor

    The Quebec City-Windsor Corridor is a unique geographic, historical and cultural region of Canada. Stretching along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes watershed from Quebec City, Quebec, in the east to Windsor, Ontario, in the west, it is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada. It is home to roughly half of Canada’s population and is the location of three of Canada’s largest metropolitan regions. The corridor has the characteristics of a conurbation — a continuous network of urban communities — and is also considered to be part of the Great Lakes megalopolis. The region contains Canada’s two largest cities (Toronto and Montreal), the national capital (Ottawa) and the capital cities of Canada’s two most populated and most economically powerful provinces (Quebec and Ontario). It is also the location of some of Canada’s earliest known settlements (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) as well as some of the oldest continual settlements in Canada. Geographer Maurice Yeates referred to the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor as Canada’s “Main Street.” The region is considered Canada’s equivalent to the Northeast Corridor megalopolis of the United States.

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    Quebec, North Shore and Labrador Railway

    Quebec, North Shore and Labrador Railway links the towns of Labrador City, Wabush and Schefferville to the port of Sept-Îles.

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    Québec Sports Hall of Fame (Le Panthéon des sports du Québec)

    In the early 1970s, the project of a Québec Sports Hall of Fame took shape through the initiative of Carl Schwende, a Swiss émigré who had settled in Québec in 1948. Thus, on June 26, 1973, the Panthéon des sports amateurs du Québec took out its charter.

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    Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth

    The opening of the prestigious Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth (formerly the Queen Elizabeth Hotel) in Montreal took place on 15 March 1958 and was followed, a month later (on 15, 16 and 17 April) by a gala opening that brought together the best of Canadian culture and several Hollywood celebrities. The hotel was designed and built by CN chief architect George Drummond and named by company president Donald Gordon. It gained even more notoriety following John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 Bed-In for Peace and the recording of Lennon’s anti-war song “Give Peace a Chance.”

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