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In 1632, Samuel de Champlain, founder of New France, gave his name to the Champlain River. [4] The Commission de toponymie du Québec has noted a "popular version" of the origin of the name, which suggests that Champlain gave the area its name because, "amazed by the beauty of the place, [he] exclaimed to himself, 'What a beautiful flat plain', from the Latin campus planus, 'flat field'."
In November 2008, a Special Conference of FAO member countries agreed a US$42.6 million (€38.6 million), three-year Immediate Plan of Action for "reform with growth", as recommended by the IEE. Under the plan US$21.8 million would be spent on overhauling the financial procedures, hierarchies and human resources management. [92]
Quebec's Court of Appeal has sided with the Quebec government. The opposition says they plan to appeal, but as of March 2022 residents of Quebec may not grow cannabis at home. In her ruling, Judge France Thibault wrote that both sides in the case were motivated by the desire to combat the harms associated with consumption.
In Quebec in 1917, 32 different teaching orders operated 586 boarding schools for girls. At that time there was no public education for girls in Quebec beyond elementary school. The first hospital was founded in 1701. In 1936, the nuns of Quebec operated 150 institutions, with 30,000 beds to care for the long-term sick, the homeless, and ...
The act created a new bicameral Legislature for the province of Quebec, composed of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. In December 1955, the assembly passed a bill according the title "Member of Provincial Parliament" ( membre du Parlement provincial ) and the initialism "MPP" ( M.P.P. ) to members of the ...
The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) is a constituent university of the Université du Québec system located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.As of September 2010, combined enrolment at UQO's Gatineau and Saint-Jérôme campuses was 6,017, of which 4,738 were undergraduates and 1,279 postgraduate students.
The plan also called for provincial utility company Hydro-Quebec to develop a strategy for the deployment of public charging infrastructure. [73] This resulted in the creation of "The Electric Circuit" ( French : Le Circuit Électrique ), the largest public network of charging stations for electric vehicles in Quebec . [ 74 ]
The Kalergi Plan, sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy, [1] is a debunked far-right, antisemitic, white genocide conspiracy theory.