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Quebec
[ kwi-bek, ki- ]
noun
- a province in eastern Canada. 594,860 sq. mi. (1,540,685 sq. km). formerlync Low·er Can·a·da [loh, -er].
- a seaport in and the capital of this province, on the St. Lawrence: capital of New France from 1663 to 1759, when it was taken by the English; wartime conferences 1943, 1944.
- a word used in communications to represent the letter Q.
Quebec
/ kə-; kwɪˈbɛk; kɛ- /
noun
- a province of E Canada: the largest Canadian province; a French colony from 1608 to 1763, when it passed to Britain; lying mostly on the Canadian Shield, it has vast areas of forest and extensive tundra and is populated mostly in the plain around the St Lawrence River. Capital: Quebec. Pop: 7 542 760 (2004 est). Area: 1 540 680 sq km (594 860 sq miles) PQ
- a port in E Canada, capital of the province of Quebec, situated on the St Lawrence River: founded in 1608 by Champlain; scene of the battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759), by which the British won Canada from the French. Pop: 169 076 (2001)
- communications a code word for the letter q
Quebec
- Province in eastern Canada , bordered to the east by Newfoundland , the Atlantic Ocean , and the Gulf of St. Lawrence (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean ); to the southeast by New Brunswick and several states of the United States; to the southwest by Ontario ; to the west by Ontario and Hudson Bay ; and to the north by islands of the Northwest Territories . Its capital is Quebec City , and its largest city is Montreal .
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Example Sentences
An anthropologist, he works at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
The UK adopted a similar strategy in December, and Quebec announced in January that it would stop holding back booster shots and try to vaccinate as many people as possible, delaying the second shot for up to 90 days.
There’s no certainty the talks will lead to a transaction, the Quebec-based company said.
Vendors from Quebec cannot cross the border legally, though some have crossed anyway.
While the traditional song can still be heard in the East, the new song has been documented as far east as Quebec and Vermont.
But outside of a few European countries and Quebec, this leave is usually two weeks or less and usually unpaid.
Earlier this week, Martin Rouleau-Couture ran his car into two Canadian soldiers in Quebec, killing one and wounding another.
Rouleau-Couture and Zehaf-Bibeau were both reportedly born in Canada and lived in Quebec before recently converting to Islam.
But he appears to have been a 32-year-old native of Quebec with a history of legal troubles that predate his radicalization.
“The same way France, Denmark, and Quebec do it: by legislating an official language,” Avishai explained.
In 1617, he returned to Canada with his family, at Champlain's request, as one of the latter's colonists at Quebec.
The Italian ecclesiastic Gavazzi, lectured at Quebec, and gave rise to a riot.
The first case of cholera asphixia in America occurred on this day at Quebec.
During the week closing with this day, 21,297 immigrants arrived at the port of Quebec, Lower Canada.
The Quebec bridge (fig. 25) over the St Lawrence, which collapsed while in course of construction in 1907.
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