The largest province of Canada

Usage examples of quebec.

It was to the effect that an Abenaki Indian had just come over land from Acadia, with news that some of his tribe had captured an English woman near Portsmouth, who told them that a great fleet had sailed from Boston to attack Quebec.

Ponchartrain wrote to the bishop of Quebec to increase his pay out of the allowance furnished by the government to the Acadian clergy, because he, Thury, had persuaded the Abenakis to begin the war anew.

Quebec and three weeks in the Bastile may suffice to atone for his fault, and since also he is related or connected with persons for whom I have a great regard, I pray you to accept kindly the apologies which he will make you, and, as it is not at all likely that he will fall again into any offence approaching that which he has committed, you will give me especial pleasure in granting him the honor of your favor and friendship.

We were ordered to Quebec, sailed through the beautiful Gut of Canso, and up the spacious and majestic St Lawrence, passing in sight of the Island of Anticosta.

It was too late in the season to make further explorations where the two rivers invited to the west and northwest, so Cartier joined the companions who had been left near Quebec to build a fort and make ready for the winter.

Nearby, a trio of Coloradans were painting Canadian flags on the back of their backpacks both as antiterrorism talismans and as their free ticket into the Saint-Jean-Baptiste celebrations to be held that night at the Quebec Delegation building.

Nucko-political bodies all the way up in Quebec, far north of the Enfield MA where Gately had been cringing his way to nightly AA meetings with his fingers in his mouth.

Almost at the same moment that we had Fenian troubles at home, and threatened invasions of our Quebec and Ontario frontiers, the standard of revolt had been raised in Manitoba by the turbulent rebel Louis Riel and his band of half-breeds.

Quebec has been home to outlaw motorcycle gangs for more than 40 years.

North chapter in suburban Laval continues the tradition of mindless, gratuitous violence practiced by outlaw motorcycle gangs in rural Quebec.

Angels, as a gutter terrorist with smaller, but no less tame, motorcycle gangs in the Quebec boonies.

They also try to control gangs in the New England states to build an Angel front between Lowell and Quebec.

Quebec Angels cross the border to Ottawa regularly to chat up local bike gangs and to size up the Bad News.

Roy, a Quebec Conservative, resigned from his party, he placed on Hansard a bitter indictment of Tory policies.

On July 11, 1944, Diefenbaker had read into Hansard a return of the call-up by mobilization districts, which showed that Kingston, Ontario, had fifteen times as many recruits as Quebec City, although the two areas had about the same population.