Quebec: The National Holiday of Quebec is the National Holiday of the Canadian province of Quebec. A paid statutory public holiday covered by the Act Respecting Labour Standards, it is celebrated annually on June 24, St. John the Baptist Day.
La Fête nationale du Québec a lieu le 24 juin. Au Québec, ce jour est férié et chômé en vertu de la Loi sur la fête nationale. La fête nationale est souvent appelée la Saint-Jean-Baptiste ou la Saint-Jean pour des raisons historiques.
The Quebec flag, the Fleurdelisé, takes its white cross from the ancient royal flags of France and its white fleurs-de-lis and blue field from a banner honouring the Virgin Mary reputedly carried by French-Canadian militia at General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm's victory at Carillon (now Ticonderoga, New York). Contrary to popular belief, the fleurs-de-lis are not taken from the banner of the kings of France, who used golden fleurs-de-lis. The white fleurs-de-lis on Quebec's flag are symbols of purity, which originally represented the Virgin Mary.
Comme pour le « Carillon », ancêtre direct du Fleurdelisé, le bleu symbolisait à l'origine la Vierge Marie. S’éloignant peu à peu de sa symbolique originelle, la couleur du drapeau est devenue nettement plus foncée au fil des années. Il est intéressant de noter que des drapeaux bleus à croix blanche sont attestés en France comme symboles militaires ou de la marine marchande dès le XVIe siècle.
Quebec is the only Canadian province and North American jurisdiction with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.
Le Québec a un territoire d’une superficie de 1 667 441 km2 (soit 3 fois plus grand que la France) et une population de 7 744 530 habitants composée de divers groupes linguistiques et socio-culturels, dont onze nations autochtones. Sa langue officielle est le français, langue maternelle et d'usage de 80 % de la population.
Quebec was one of the first four provinces to form Canada under the Constitution Act, 1867, which brought about a Confederation of one Dominion under the name of Canada consisting of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. The coat of arms of Quebec formed part of the first Canadian Red Ensign, the then unofficial flag of Canada. It changed a number of times as more provinces and territories joined and by 1905 the shield on the Red Ensign had nine coats of arms of the current nine provinces represented on it.
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