Quebec is a province in Canada. As of 2006, the Canadian House of Commons recognized "that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada" although there is considerable debate and uncertainty over what this means.
Affectionately known as la belle province ("the beautiful province"), Quebec is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay. To the north are the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, and to the south the United States (the states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine). It also shares maritime borders with the Territory of Nunavut and the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
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, 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.
Sports teams:
National Hockey League:
Montreal Canadiens
Canadian Football League:
Montreal Alouettes
Can-Am League
Quebec Capitales
National Women's Hockey League:
Montreal Axion (currently on hiatus)
Quebec Avalanche (currently on hiatus)
United Soccer Leagues:
Montreal Impact
French-language universities:
Université Laval (Quebec City)
Université de Montréal (Montreal)
HEC Montréal - École des Hautes Études Commerciales
École Polytechnique
Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke)
Université du Québec
École nationale d'administration publique, ENAP (Quebec City)
École de technologie supérieure, ETS (Montreal)
Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS (Quebec City)
Institut des arts médiatiques, IDAM (Montreal)
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, UQAT (Rouyn-Noranda)
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, UQAC (Chicoutimi, Saguenay)
Université du Québec en Outaouais, UQO (formerly UQAH--Hull, Gatineau)
Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM (Montreal)
Télé-université, Téluq
Université du Québec à Rimouski, UQAR (Rimouski)
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, UQTR (Trois-Rivières)
English-language universities:
Bishop's University (Lennoxville, Sherbrooke)
Concordia University (Montreal)
McGill University (Montreal)
Quebec is the largest French-speaking society in the Americas. Most French Canadians live in Quebec, though there are other concentrations of French-speakers throughout Canada with varying degrees of ties to Quebec. Montreal is the cosmopolitan cultural heart of Quebec. English-speaking Quebecers constitute an official language minority whose number, according to the 2001 census and depending on the method of reckoning, ranges from 557,040 (mother tongue, single response) to 918,955 ("first official language spoken" English plus half of those with both English and French as first official language spoken), constituting 7.8% to 12.9% of the population. Quebec is also home to 11 aboriginal nations. The total Aboriginal identity population of Quebec was 79,400 in 2001.
Château Frontenac, the world's most photographed hotel, is iconic to the province of Quebec.
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