Synonyms:
Quebec
Meaning: the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British
Synonyms:
Quebec, Quebec_City
Meaning: the French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec; situated on the Saint Lawrence River
Usage examples
Quebec, April 1914.
"My name is Ned Trent," he told her, "and I am from Quebec.
If you do as we wish, we will form a church under the protection of the fort at Quebec.
Turn your eyes towards Quebec, and transport thither what is left of this ruined country.
Oliver Goldsmith himself was always very proud of being a cousin of the man who took Quebec.
Their good will exceeded their power; for food was scarce at Quebec, and the Jesuits themselves had to bear the chief burden of keeping the sufferers alive.
The fugitives directed their course to the Grand Manitoulin Island, where they remained for a short time, and then, to the number of about four hundred, descended the Ottawa, and rejoined their countrymen who had gone to Quebec the year before.
Wolfe's father, however, was born in England; and, as there is no evidence that any of his ancestors in Ireland had married other than English Protestants, and as Wolfe's mother was also English, we may say that the victor of Quebec was a pure-bred Englishman.
They had seized this position some time before and called it Gorham's Post, after the colonel whose regiment held it. Fourteen years later there was another and more famous Gorham's Post, on the south shore of the St Lawrence near Quebec, opposite Wolfe's Cove.