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Quebec summary
Quebec is a province in Canada, and the only province that is the homeland of a people recognized as a nation by the House of Commons. Quebec is
bordered to the west by Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay, to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and
Labrador, to the southeast by New Brunswick and Maine, and to the south by the states of New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. It also shares maritime
borders with the Territory of Nunavut and the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
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Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is the second
most populated province, behind Ontario, and most of its inhabitants live along or close to the banks of the Saint Lawrence River. The central and north
portion of the province is sparsely populated and inhabited by the aboriginal peoples of Canada. Quebec operates North America's largest and most extensive
civil service.
The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly francophone, and where English is not an official
language at the provincial level except in the legislature and the courts, where it is co-official. French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose Québec in 1608
for the colonial outpost he would use as the administrative seat for the French colony of Canada and New France.
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farms. The Province of Quebec was founded in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of New France to Britain
after the Seven Years' War. It restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River. The Quebec Act of 1774 expanded the territory of
the province to include the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley. The Treaty of Versailles, 1783 ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States.
After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada (present day Quebec) and Upper Canada (present day Ontario), with each being
granted an elected Legislative Assembly. In 1840, these become Canada East and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the
Province of Canada. This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at the Confederation in 1867. Each became one of the first four provinces.
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In 1870, Canada purchased Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company and over the next few decades the Parliament of Canada transferred portions of this territory
to Quebec that would more than triple the size of the province. In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the
provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree. This was followed by the addition of the District of Ungava through the Quebec Boundaries
Extension Act of 1912 that added the northernmost lands of the aboriginal Inuit to create the modern Province of Quebec.
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The province occupies a vast territory (nearly three times the size of France), most of which is very sparsely populated. Quebec's highest point is Mont D'Iberville,
which is located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province.
The most populated region is the Saint Lawrence River valley in the south, where the capital, Quebec City, and the largest city, Montreal, are situated. The region is
low-lying and flat, except for isolated igneous outcrops near Montreal called the Monteregian Hills. The combination of rich and easily arable soils and Quebec's warmest
climate make the valley Quebec's most prolific agricultural area. A distinctive landscape is divided into narrow rectangular tracts of land that date back to settlement
patterns in 17th century New France. The river is one of the worlds largest, sustaining large inland Atlantic ports at Montreal, Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City. The Saint
Lawrence Seaway provides a link between the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Great Lakes starting at the Saint-Lambert locks in Montreal.
More than 90 percent of Quebec's area lies within the Canadian Shield, a rough, rocky terrain sculpted and scraped clean of soil by successive ice ages. It is rich in the
mineral and hydro-electric resources that are a mainstay of the Quebec economy. In the Labrador Peninsula portion of the Shield, the far northern region of Nunavik includes
the Ungava Peninsula and consists of Arctic tundra inhabited mostly by the Inuit. Further south lie subarctic taiga and boreal forest, where spruce, fir, and poplar trees
provide raw materials for Quebec's pulp and paper and lumber industries. Although inhabited principally by the Cree, Naskapi, and Innu First Nations, thousands of temporary
workers reside at Radisson to service the massive James Bay Hydroelectric Project on the La Grande and Eastmain rivers. The southern portion of the shield extends to the
Laurentians, a mountain range just north of Montreal and Quebec City that attracts local and international tourists to ski hills and lakeside resorts.
The tree-covered Appalachian Mountains flank the eastern portion of the province, extending from New England into the Eastern Townships, northeastward through the Beauce region,
and on to the Gaspé Peninsula, where they disappear into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This region sustains a mix of forestry, industry, and tourism based on its natural resources
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Quebec economy
The St. Lawrence River Valley is a fertile agricultural region, producing dairy products, fruit, vegetables, foie gras, maple syrup (Quebec is the world's largest producer),
and livestock. North of the St. Lawrence River Valley, the territory of Quebec is extremely rich in resources in its coniferous forests, lakes, and rivers—pulp and paper, lumber,
and hydroelectricity are still some of the province's most important industries.
High-tech industries are very important around Montreal. It includes the aerospace companies like aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, the jet engine company Pratt & Whitney, the
flight simulator builder CAE and defence contractor Lockheed Martin, Canada. Those companies and other major subcontractors make Quebec the fourth biggest player worldwide in the
aviation industry. In the video game industry, large video game companies like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft have studios in Montreal.
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