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99 unusual facts about quebec


Aaron Sweet

He was born in Hemmingford, Canada East, the son of R. Sweet and Eleana Broder, the sister of Andrew Broder.

Acadia River

The course of the river flows through seven municipalities (or cities): Hemmingford, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington (where it flows eastward) Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Napierville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Saint-Luc and Acadia sector), Carignan and Chambly.

Aimé Bénard

Bénard was born in Henryville, Quebec, and was educated at the normal school in that community.

Albert Gilles

His family carries on his work today, and they have a museum in Château-Richer near Quebec City, which showcases Gilles' and the family's works.

Alice Rollit Coe

She was born Alice Sarah Rollit in Rawdon, Quebec, Canada on September 20, 1858 to John Charles Rollit and Elizabeth (née Spooner) Rollit.

Archibald C. Hart

Archibald Chapman Hart (February 27, 1873, Lennoxville, Quebec - July 24, 1935, Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1912–1913 and again from 1913-1917.

Bostonnais

La Bostonnais, Quebec (municipality), La Tuque (urban agglomeration), Mauricie

Brian McConnell

He was the resident engineer for the city of Westmount (1893-1896) and finally entered into private practice and remained as such until 1916.

Brooks Pharmacy

As a result, that same year, Revco sold all of the New England Brooks stores to the Quebec-based Jean Coutu Group, which had already been operating stores in Rhode Island and Massachusetts under the Maxi Drug and Douglas Drug trade names.

Canada Car Company

Canada Car Company was a railcar manufacturer based in Turcot, Quebec (a suburb in Montreal), and later merged with several other companies to form Canadian Car and Foundry in 1909.

Canadian Industries Limited

In order to provide the massive amounts of explosives needed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a new dynamite factory was opened in McMasterville, Quebec.

CFOI-FM

On December 3, 2010, CFOI-FM applied to add a new FM transmitter at Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.

Charlie Major

Born in Aylmer, Quebec, Charlie Major knew he wanted to be a musician since he was 19 years old.

Chartrand et Simonne

The series originally only had two parts but it was expanded into 6 parts and re-aired in 2003 on Télé-Québec.

Château

In Canada, especially in English, château usually denotes a hotel, not a house, and applies only to the largest, most elaborate railway hotels built in the Canadian Railroad golden age, such as the Château Lake Louise, in Lake Louise, Alberta, the Château Laurier, in Ottawa, the Château Montebello, in Montebello, Quebec, and the most famous Château Frontenac, in Quebec City.

Claude Bourbonnais

Claude Bourbonnais (born June 24, 1965, L'Île-Perrot, Quebec), is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series.

CMC Electronics

The company's principal manufacturing facility is located in Montreal, Quebec, with additional facilities located in Ottawa, Ontario and Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Colonial American military history

As a result of the war, Maine fell to the New Englanders with the defeat of Father Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to St. Francis and Becancour, Quebec.

Conrad Gugy

In 1778, when refugees started arriving from across the border, with the marked approval of the now Governor of Canada, his old friend Sir Frederick Haldimand, Gugy erected dwellings and a school on his seigneuries at Yamachiche, Quebec, to house them.

Cross of Gaspé

The Cross of Gaspé was originally erected on July 24, 1534 overlooking the bay of Gaspé, by the team of Jacques Cartier on his first trip exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village

In November 2011, the Town entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Auberge et Spa Le Nordik Inc. of Chelsea, Quebec.

Dalsa

Headquarters remain in Waterloo, but the company has expanded operations into Billerica, Massachusetts; Sunnyvale, California; Bromont and Montreal, Quebec; and Eindhoven, Netherlands, in addition to sales offices in Germany, Japan, and China.

David Ross McCord

He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.

Davie Yards Incorporated

Created in 2006 when TECO purchase the assets for the bankrupt MIL-Davie, the new Canadian unit is based in Lauzon, Quebec.

Denis Viger

He worked as a carpenter and also carved wooden objects for the church at Saint-Denis.

Dominion-Chalmers United Church

The Dominion Methodist/United Church`s roots go back to Methodist circuit riders visitations in Hull, Lower Canada from 1816, and a wooden structure built on Rideau Street in the Lower Town in 1827.

Donald Macleay

Financial difficulties caused his parents to move to Canada and settle on a farm near Melbourne, Quebec, when Macleay was 16.

Duvernay

Duvernay, Quebec, a former city, now a district of Laval, Quebec, Canada

Evanov Communications

On January 20, 2012, Evanov announced that Dufferin applied with the CRTC to establish a new Soft AC station in Hudson, Quebec, a western suburb of Montreal; the new station would broadcast at 106.7 MHz at 500 watts at 94 metres HAAT.

Fatback

Fatback is a traditional part of southern US cuisine, soul food and traditional Cuisine of Quebec, where it is used for fried pork rinds (known there as cracklings, or Oreilles de crisse in Quebec), and to flavor stewed vegetables such as greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1966

George Ben Edmonson - Canada prisoner arrested June 28, 1967 in Campbell's Bay, Quebec, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after a Canadian citizen recognized him from an American magazine article.

Fernand Mousseau

He was promoted to Lieutenant at the Brockville training camp for officers and was transferred to the Officer Candidate School in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.

George Couture

Born in Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), Lower Canada, Couture was elected to the Lévis municipal council in 1865.

GM New Look bus

No prefix was used for Pontiac, Michigan, C (Canada) indicated London, Ontario, and M (Montreal) Saint-Eustache, Quebec.

Governor's School of International Studies

The program has traditionally included a one-week immersion study in Quebec, Canada.

Greenfield Park

Greenfield Park, Quebec, a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec and a suburb of Montreal

Guy D'Artois

In March 1999, Major L.G. d'Artois, a hero in war and peace, died in the Veterans Hospital in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

Halifax Shipyard

The competing Davie Yards Incorporated in Lauzon, QC experienced similar financial difficulty and spent much of the decade in mothball status.

Henry Roe

He was born in Henryville Lower Canada to a large family and his father, John Hill Roe, was a doctor.

Isabelle Duchesnay

Isabelle Duchesnay (born December 18, 1963, Aylmer, Quebec, Canada) is a retired ice dancer who represented France for most of her career.

Jacques Frémin

The high repute he had gained among the various tribes was responsible for his recall, in 1670, to take charge of La Prairie, the Christian settlement near Montreal where the converted Indians had been gathered, and it was he who placed this refuge on a solid footing and eliminated the liquor traffic.

James Chabot

He was born in Farnham, Quebec, and moved to British Columbia during the 1950s.

James Thomas Brown

He was born in Huntingdon, Quebec, the son of Samuel Brown and Margaret White, and was educated there and at McGill University.

John Tomac

The following year, he finished in fifth place at the DH World Championship held in Bromont, Canada, and had to settle for second place behind Switzerland's Thomas Frischknecht in the XC World Cup rankings (though there were two event wins again).

Joseph Marmette

Born in Montmagny, Canada East, Marmette was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and Regiopolis College.

Joseph Miville Dechene

Joseph Miville Dechene was born on October 22, 1879 in Chambord, Quebec.

Joseph-Félix Descôteaux

He was born in Sainte-Monique, Canada East, the son of Félix Descoteaux and Marie-Thérèse Manseau.

Julius Scriver

Born in Hemmingford, Lower Canada (now Quebec), the son of John Scriver and Lucretia Manning, he studied at the Workman's School in Montreal and the University of Vermont.

L'Avenir

L'Avenir, Quebec, municipality located in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec

Law of Canada

Quebec, however, still retains a civil system for issues of private law (as this domain falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces).

Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality

It was established in 1982 from parts of the historic counties of Beauce, Frontenac, Mégantic, and Wolfe.

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930 in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Mansfield Township

Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Quebec, was formed from the merger of Mansfield Township and Pontefract Township

Mary Anne Sadlier

Upon the death of her father, Francis, a merchant, Mary Madden emigrated to Sainte-Marthe, Quebec in 1844, where she married publisher James Sadlier, also from Ireland, on November 24, 1846.

Mauricie–Bois-Francs

It ceased to exist on July 30, 1997 (or August 20, 1997, upon publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec) when it was split into the modern-day administrative regions of Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec.

Microgadus tomcod

The town of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade is notable for its fishing village built on the frozen waters of the Ste-Anne, playing host to the scores of fishermen visiting the town to fish for tomcod.

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School is an all-girls school located in Westmount, Quebec.

Montreal School for the Deaf

The Montreal Oral School for the Deaf (MOSD) is a provincial school in Westmount, Quebec, Canada with programs serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Montreal West High School

Most of the abuse reportedly occurred at the teacher's cabin in Morin-Heights according to victims and former students who talked to the media.

MS Madeleine

The MS Madeleine is a car/passenger ferry owned and operated by C.T.M.A. between Souris and Cap-aux-Meules.

Nelly Arcan

Lac-Mégantic's municipal library, assembled from over a hundred thousand donated books after fire destroyed the original library during 2013's Lac-Mégantic derailment, is named « La Médiathèque municipale Nelly-Arcan » in her honour.

Notre-Dame-du-Lac

Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, a former city that is now part of Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac

Ontario Highway 65

Rue Ontario ends at Route 101 in Notre-Dame-du-Nord, 2.6 kilometres (2 miles) east of the provincial border.

Paul Ahmarani

He was born from the union of two teachers, one from Cacouna, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec and another from the Mediterranean coast.

Pauline Michel

Pauline Michel (born 1944 in Asbestos, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter.

Physella parkeri

The subspecies Physella parkeri latchfordi, also known as the "Gatineau tadpole snail", lives in Quebec, Canada.

Pierre Creamer

Pierre Creamer (born July 6, 1944 in Chomedey, Quebec) is a former Canadian ice hockey coach.

Pierre Guerout

He later set up his own business and had moved to Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu by 1783.

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Quebec-Labrador Foundation

Founding the Living Rivers Program in Tabusintac, New Brunswick, QLF established what would become one of QLF's hallmarks: cross border, community-based conservation and stewardship programs aimed at both young people and established conservation professionals.

Québec-Montréal

Directed by Ricardo Trogi, the film focuses on nine people, all on the cusp of turning 30 and dealing with complex questions about life and love, whose lives intersect on four separate road trips from Quebec City to Montreal along Quebec Autoroute 20.

Quebec, County Durham

The village takes its unusual name from the more famous Canadian city of Quebec.

At the age of 20, Chris Waddle was working in Quebec's former meat factory, Hamsteels Frozen Foods, when he was signed by Newcastle United in 1980 from nearby Northern League side Tow Law Town for £1,000.

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791 is a book (ISBN 0-7710-6658-9) by Canadian historian Dr. Hilda Neatby published in 1966 in both the French and English languages as part of The Canadian Centenary Series.

Reference re Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act

The provinces of Quebec and Ontario disputed the constitutionality of the Act, as they believed it intruded into provincial jurisdiction with respect to property and civil rights.

Robert-Émile Fortin

His mother died before he was two years old and Fortin was raised at the Sainte-Thérèse Orphanage in Aylmer, Quebec and the Saint-Joseph Orphanage in Ottawa.

Roxton

Roxton Pond, Quebec, a municipality in La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality

Saint-Émile

Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, Quebec, a municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada

Saint-Henri, Quebec

Saint-Henri, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, a municipality of Quebec in the vicinity of Lévis

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Montérégie, Quebec a former parish municipality in south-west Quebec which now forms part of the municipality of Saint-Chrysostome, Quebec

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Lévis, Quebec, a former municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec which now forms part of the city of Lévis

Sainte-Agathe, Quebec

Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Quebec, in the Chaudière-Appalaches region, formed from the 1999 amalgamation of the village and parish named Sainte-Agathe

Seven-digit dialing

This "exchange code protection" made it possible in some low or moderate-density areas to use seven digits to reach areas in another area code (such as Hull from Ottawa before 2006, as every Ottawa-Hull local number originally was reserved in both 613 and 819).

Sherbrooke Nature and Science Museum

The museum's collection of over 65,000 objects and specimens represents the diversity of the fauna and flora of Quebec, Canada as well as elsewhere in North America and around the world.

Spertiniite

It was first described in 1981 for an occurrence in the Jeffrey quarry of the Johns-Manville mine, Asbestos, Estrie, Québec.

SS Point Pleasant Park

She was built at Davie Ship Building & Repair Co. Ltd. at Lauzon, Quebec and entered service the 8 November 1943.

STV Black Jack

Black Jack was originally a logging tug on the Upper Ottawa River and was based in Quyon, Quebec.

Tadeusz Brzozowski

Later that year, Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis of Québec wrote to Pius VII and to Brzozowski, begging that Jesuits be sent from Great Britain not only for Halifax but to work among the aboriginal people in Upper Canada as well.

Ted Dey

Born in Hull, Quebec, Ted Dey was one of three brothers and two sisters born to Joseph Dey and Annie Buckley.

Thomas C. Fields

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

Thomas Craig Fields (November 9, 1825 St. Lawrence County, New York – January 25, 1885 Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Trade secrets in Canada

According to Continental Casualty Company v. Combined Insurance Company (1967), the Quebec Court of Appeal decided that those who owned trade secrets (secrets de commerce) are entitled to seek protection and that Quebec courts are competent to grant remedies in the case the plaintiff can evidence its ownership of such trade secrets.

Tremblay v. Daigle

The fetal rights were said to be anchored in the rights to life in the Canadian Charter, the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and the Civil Code of Quebec.

U.S. Route 3

In Stewartstown, the road turns more directly east (still following the Connecticut River, which is no longer a boundary), before resuming a northeasterly direction through Pittsburg, where it meets the northern end of NH 145, eventually heading directly north to the Canadian border crossing at Chartierville, Quebec, where it becomes Quebec Route 257.

Vlasovite

Other localities for vlasovite include the volcanic Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Township, Quebec and the Strange Lake Complex in Labrador.

William Cameron Edwards

Up until 1920, Edwards' company also operated a sawmill on the Petite-Nation River in Quebec at North Nation Mills, north of Plaisance.

Wind turbine

; Largest vertical-axis: Le Nordais wind farm in Cap-Chat, Quebec has a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) named Éole, which is the world's largest at 110 m.

Zarlink

In 2002 Zarlink sold its foundry in Bromont, Quebec, Canada to Dalsa Corporation, and its wafer fabrication facility in Plymouth, UK to X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG.

Zoe Whittall

Whittall was born in 1976 in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and spent her childhood on a farm on the outskirts of South Durham.


1747 in Canada

August 8: Madeleine de Verchères, daughter of François Jarret, a seigneur in New France, and Marie Perrot (b.1678); Madeline (alt spelling) achieved recognition when, as a young girl, she successfully fought off Iroquois attackers and helped to save Fort Vercheres (Quebec).

2012 Canadian Grand Prix

Following a smoke bomb incident on Montreal Metro subway, student activists from the Université du Québec à Montréal threatened to prevent the race from going ahead as part of ongoing demonstrations across Quebec.

Acton Vale

Acton Vale, Quebec, an industrial town in south-central Quebec, Canada

Ad Lib, Inc.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

André Caillé

Caillé affirmed he voted Yes in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, but stated he presently believes the ADQ's autonomist policy is more concurrent with the feelings of Quebecers.

Association of Regular Baptist Churches

One of its leading churches is Jarvis Street Baptist Church of Toronto, Ontario, whose well-known pastor of 45 years, Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873–1955), led fundamentalist forces in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec during the fundamentalist/modernist controversies in the first half of the 20th century.

Bar of Quebec

Quebec applicants must be graduates of the law faculty of one of six universities: the University of Montreal, the University of Quebec at Montreal, McGill University, Laval University, the University of Ottawa, or the University of Sherbrooke.

Canada Clause

A clause in the Charlottetown Accord that would have recognized the province of Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, aboriginal rights, sex equality and other principles; or

Claude Brochu

In 2001, he published the book My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Expos, which blamed Quebec ex-premier Lucien Bouchard for the sale of the baseball team.

Clément Richard

Richard was president and founder of MétéoMédia, Expotech Imax and the Quebec book publishing company Mondia.

Constitution of Canada

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.

Cormier

Charles Cormier (1813 – 1887), a Quebec businessman and political figure

Étienne-Théodore Pâquet

He dabbled into various commercial ventures: aforementioned wood commerce, the Lévis and Kennebec Railway (auctioned off in 1881 to the Quebec Central Railway) and the Quebec Mining Co. amongst others.

France Antarctique

However, the French crown failed to make good use of Villegaignon's exploits to expand the reach of the French kingdom into the New World, as was being done at the time with the claims of Jacques Cartier in the present-day province of Quebec, Canada.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

George Bryson

George Bryson Jr., a member of the Legislative Council of Quebec, son of the above

George F. Le Feuvre

Unable to find a civil service post in Quebec, George joined the civil service in Ottawa.

GO Transit

The design was created by Gangon/Valkus, a Montreal-based design firm that was also responsible for the corporate identities of Canadian National and Hydro-Québec.

Guy Bisaillon

The following month, the National Assembly of Quebec approved a bill to restrict the franchise in school board elections, such that only Catholics and Protestants would be able to vote in elections for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, respectively.

Jacques Tremblay

Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (1923–2012), former Member of Parliament of Canada and also Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party for Iberville electoral division

Jean Pelletier

He successfully persuaded Chirac to keep quiet during the 1980 Quebec referendum, though Chirac personally supported an independent Quebec like General Charles de Gaulle.

Jean-Guy Carignan

With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.

Jean-Paul Desbiens

His identity revealed and his relationship with the church establishment strained, Desbiens left the Quebec intellectual scene and attended University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he obtained a Ph.D in philosophy.

Jean-Yves Laforest

Briefly after TQS, a Quebec-based TV network, announced that it would abolish its information services division, Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec.

Lac-Édouard, Quebec

The Triton Fish and Game Club, today the Seigneurie du Triton is the most prestigious club hunting and fishing in Quebec and received illustrious members in particular Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the England) and American presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as family members of Rockefeller and Molson.

Lamarre

Yvon Lamarre, former Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec

Le Journal de Montréal

This change was accompanied by the addition of several new columnists, including journalist and television host Richard Martineau, former Quebec government ministers Yves Séguin and Joseph Facal, former federal government Minister Sheila Copps,former hockey player Guy Lafleur and the ex-hacker Mafiaboy.

Live in Las Vegas: A New Day...

A New Day... was shown on television in selected countries, including the Netherlands (first part on November 18 and second one on November 25, 2007 on SBS 6), Spain (November 29, 2007 on TVE2), South Africa (first part on December 2 and second one on December 8, 2007 on SABC 3), Italy (December 25, 2007 on Italia 1), and Quebec (bonus features on January 20, 2008 and the show on January 27, 2008 on TVA).

Louis Boyer

Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Canadian merchant and political figure from Quebec

Madame le Corbeau

On September 9, 1949, Rita Guay was scheduled to board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, at L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City, Quebec, where it made a scheduled stopover during a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau.

Mel Rilstone

After playing against them for Quebec in early August, he made his debut for the national side later that month, playing against the MCC at Stanley Park.

Mon oncle Antoine

The film examines life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos region of rural Québec prior to the Asbestos Strike of the late 1940s.

Office québécois de la langue française

Daniel Boyer : Secrétaire général de la (FTQ) (Vice-President of the Québec Federation of Labour)

Paul Buissonneau

In 1952, the City of Montreal appointed Buissonneau as artistic director of La Roulotte, a parks-based outdoor theatre, which gave an early opportunity to famous Quebec artists Yvon Deschamps, Jean-Louis Millette, Claude Jasmin, Claude Léveillé and Robert Charlebois.

Pierre Vincent

Pierre-Vincent Valin (1827–1897), Canadian businessman and political figure from Quebec

Polar Bear Shores

Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien in Quebec rescued the pair as they were not expected to survive in the wilderness alone.

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

On March 19, Samson declared himself to be the leader of a new créditiste group, and demanded to be seated in the National Assembly as a member of the "Registered Ralliement créditiste du Québec"', along with two other créditiste MNAs, Aurèle Audet (Abitibi-Ouest) and Bernard Dumont (Mégantic).

Réal Caouette

In 1958, he broke with Union des électeurs founders Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier, and joined Social Credit forming Ralliement des créditistes as the national party's Quebec wing of which he became the uncontested leader.

Résistance internationaliste

In 2004, shortly before U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Canada, a Hydro-Québec electric tower along the Quebec – New England Transmission circuit in the Eastern Townships of Quebec near the Canada-U.S. border was damaged by explosive charges detonated at its base.

Robert Layton

In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and was elected to the Federal Parliament in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.

Sex Therapy: The Session

Thicke been added as a supporting act on Alicia KeysThe Freedom Tour tour, kicking off on February 28, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with stops at Madison Square Garden and Staples Center.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

In France and Quebec, Captain Harlock is known as "Albator, le corsaire de l'espace", to avoid confusion with the completely different character Captain Haddock, and is very popular there.

Steven Lett

Steven Lett (born 1958) is an American diplomat and current head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Tarzan Tyler

Tarzan Tyler died, along with fellow wrestler Pierre 'Mad Dog' Lefebvre and referee Adrien Desbois, in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve upon returning from a wrestling event in Chicoutimi, Quebec on December 24, 1985, in a car crash.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Thomas James Tait

Born in Melbourne, Quebec, the son of Melbourne McTaggart Tait, Tait entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1880, and by 1903 he was manager of transportation with Canadian Pacific Railway company.