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Quebec

Quebec is Canada's largest province in terms of area, and is the second most populous. It is the only Canadian province with French as its official language. Its capital is Quebec City.

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Is any English spoken in Quebec?

Most of French speaking Quebecers do not speak English enough to have a decent conversation. Actually only 36.6%* of them are fully fluent in both languages but most of the people who work with the public like store clerks, police officers, receptionists are bilingual as it is a requirement to get the job so you will have no problem to get served in English but if you talk to ordinary people in the street it is more likely they won't be able to speak English.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_bilingualism_in_Canada

You can also see here where people are mostly raised French-speaking to see where chances of people speaking English are higher or lower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quebec_langues.png

Also 40.6% of the population of Quebec are bilingual including English Quebecers and the numbers rise to 60% in Montreal so to further you go outside of Montreal the more your chances of finding bilingual people will decrease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#Language

How long does a flight from London UK to Quebec Canada take?

No direct flights, so it depends entirely on the route/flight taken; probabaly upwards of 10 hours.

Did the French win at the battle of Quebec?

The British won, which is probably why Canada is not part of the United States

What is the distance between Chicago and Quebec?

From Chicago, IL to Montreal, QC: Total Estimated Distance: 850.85 miles

How many miles between Fort Lauderdale and Montreal Quebec?

The total direct flight time between Atlanta, Georgia, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is about 1h 47min. This does not include the amount of time you may spend waiting at an airport for a connecting flight. The flight distance is 941.42 km.

How many people on average go to Quebec Winter Carnival?

About 65,000 people go to Quebec City to celebrate Quebec's Winter Carnival.

Where in Quebec people live the most?

95% of people in the provinces of Ontario and QuŽbec lived in the southernmost regions. The largest cities of Toronto and MontrŽal are located in the southern regions of the provinces.

What is the driving distance between Buffalo NY and Quebec City?

The distance between the start point and the destination is 886km, (550.5 miles), and will take approximately 9 hours 12 minutes of driving time.

What are the two largest cities in Quebec?

In term of territory, it would be La Tuque, Senneterre and Rouyn-Noranda. However, in term of population, it would be Montreal, Quebec and Laval.

What is the culture in Quebec?

"the largest group in quebec is gorilla warefare group" <--- Previous answer

I think he means a group of certain races. If that is what you mean then the answer would be French Colonists.

How long did it take to build the quebec cantilever bridge?

The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid in 1832, however, it took 32 years until the bridge was completed in 1864.

What happened at the Quebec Conference?

The Charlottetown Conference was a meeting between the maritime colonies in Atlantic Canada with what was then known as the United Province of Canada from 1-9 September 1864. The meeting discussed and finalised the plan to create a Confederation out of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. This Confederation, enacted in 1867, became the Dominion of Canada.

What is the farther north province in Canada?

Both Québec and Newfoundland and Labrador extend north of the 60th parallel. Québec extends further north than Newfoundland and Labrador.

What was the purpose of the Pont de Quebec bridge?

The purpose of the George Washington Bridge was to make it easier to travel between New Jersey and New York City.

The Holland Tunnel opened in 1927, while the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931. Before the Holland Tunnel and GWB were built, there was no way to travel across the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York, except by boat.

Traveling across the Hudson River by boat was inconvenient enough, but it became doubly inconvenient when automobiles became popular. Before the 1920s, nobody had cars except the rich. But as the 1920s progressed, the price of an automobile went down, and average people were able to buy cars, too.

But you couldn't take your car across the river by boat. So, it became necessary to build the Holland Tunnel and the GWB (and the Lincoln Tunnel, which opened several years after the GWB), so people could drive across the Hudson River.

Why do some Quebecois want secede from Canada?

Canada does not want Quebec to separate. Quebec wants to separate from Canada, although if they were to separate from them, their economic structure would fail.

"their economic structure would fail" There is not yet any serious studies on that matter only opinions. This statement is only based on speculation and biased subjective ideas. Although the possibly of Quebec's economy being downed by its independence exists there are no way to accurately predict the consequences and the complete opposite could be also true. It is known that Quebec would have to take its share of the federal debt and that would result in its public debt raising from +/-75% of its GDP to +/-94.5% of its GDP but considering that the United-States-Of-America (a country that may not be in the best shape as possible but still can stand strong anyway) has a public debt of 99% of its GDP the impossible to overcome debt theory is not likely to be right. There is also the idea that Quebec receives more from federal government that it sends. Again this is a misconception. Quebec sends to federal government roughly 40 billion dollars every year in Government Sales Taxes while it receives about 36 to 38 billion dollars of investments by the federal government including the equalization payments. This being said if Quebec was to become independent it would get back about 2 billions which would not be a major advantage and all the money from the federal taxes that would now be only to Quebec would be invested in pretty much (more or less) the same way it was by Canada's government but instead by Quebec's government.

So to conclude, Quebec's economic future would solely depend of its relations with its neighbors, the kind of government it chooses and its foreign industrial/commercial investors tax rate.

Why do most of Canada's people live in southern Ontario an Quebec?

The settlements have been there for centuries, so cities sprang up in that part of the country.