Geographicals

Quebec

A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)

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A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a province of eastern Canada

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  1. Z01w.107w.567w.176w.791w

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Quebec. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011792. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011792
  2. Quebec. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec
  3. Quebec. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176