Quebec
Quebec is a Canadian province. In 2007 its population is more than 7 million people.[1]
Language
Unlike the rest of the country, which is anglophone, the majority of Quebec's population speaks French - although due to immigration there are important communities speaking English, Italian, and Spanish.
History
The first explorers
The first European explorer to reach the province of Quebec was Jacques Cartier from France. Sailing into the St. Lawrence river, he planted a cross in Gaspé, on the south shore. The Cross officially gave France control over what would become "Nouvelle France", its North American colony. Moving down the river, Jacques Cartier established a settlement at Stadacona, near present-day Quebec City. The settlement was however abandoned in the following years, partly due to the cold winters. Another French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, would found the next settlement in 1608. From that day forward, the French presence in Quebec has continued until the present.
Geography
Cities
The ten largest cities by population in Quebec[2] are:
Bibliography
- Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City 2008 (2007) excerpt and text search
- Kokker, Steve. Lonely Planet Quebec (2002) excerpt and text search
History
- The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
- Armstrong, Elizabeth H. The Crisis of Quebec, 1914-1918 (1937)
- Brecher, Frank W. Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753-1763 (1998)
- Cohen, Andrew, J. L. Granatstein, eds. Trudeau's shadow: the life and legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999.
- Couture, Claude, and Vivien Bosley. Paddling with the Current: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Etienne Parent, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Canada (1998)
- Dechêne, Louise. Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal (2003)
- Dickinson, John Alexander, and Brian Young. (Paperback - Jan 2003) A Short History of Quebec (2003) excerpt and text search
- Eccles, W. J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (1983) online edition
- Greer, Allan The people of New France (1997)
- Greer, Allan. The patriots and the people: the rebellion of 1837 in rural Lower Canada (1993)
- Innis, Harold A. The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
- Jaenen, Cornelius. Friend and Foe (1976) brief survey of French-Indian relations in the 16th & 17th centuries.
- Lanctot, Gustave. A History of Canada 3 vol Toronto. 1963. Volume One: From its Origins to the Royal Régime, 1663; online,
Volume Two: From the Royal Régime to the Treaty of Utrecht, 1663-1713, online
- Linteau, Paul-André, René Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert, and Robert Chodos. Quebec: A History 1867-1929 (1983) Quebec Since 1930 (1991), standard 2 vol textbook.
- Manning, Helen Taft; The Revolt of French Canada, 1800-1835: A Chapter of the History of the British Commonwealth (1962) online edition
- McRoberts, Kenneth. Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis. McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
- Moogk, Peter.; La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History (2000) to 1763 online edition
- Neatby, H. Blair. Laurier and a Liberal Quebec: A Study in Political Management (1973) online edition
- Saywell, John. ; The Rise of the Parti Québécois 1967-76 (1977) online edition
- Sweeny, Alastair. George-Etienne Cartier: A Biography (Toronto, 1976).
- Trofimenkoff, Susan Mann. Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec (1982)
- Trudel, Marcel. The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 (1973)
- Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955), standard history, 1136pp onlineedition
- Young, Brian, George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal bourgeois (1981)