Example sentences for: québec

How can you use “québec” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The neighborhood’s “Latin” derives from the scholarship of a Seminary, rue de l’Université, founded in 1663 by the first bishop of Québec, François de Montmorency Laval.

  • Two suggested plans of attack are either to start in Toronto or Montréal and take in Ontario and Québec, with side trips to the Atlantic coast or even out to the West; or to start in Vancouver or Calgary and explore the Rockies and British Columbia before heading east to Ontario or Québec, taking in the Prairies on a cross-country train ride.

  • We’ve divided the country into six regions, each with at least one major town accessible by air as a “launching pad” from which to explore the hinterland: Ontario; Québec; the Atlantic (Newfoundland and the Maritimes); British Columbia; the Rockies and the Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba); and the North (Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories).

  • In Ontario and Québec, where encroaching forests gradually dispersed the herds of caribou, the Iroquois ousted the Algonquin and settled down to cultivate maize, beans, and squash, living in rectangular, multifamily longhouses.

  • Gaspé, the first Canadian landfall of Jacques Cartier in 1534, is a Micmac Indian word for Land’s End, and this is indeed southern Québec’s most remote region, 700 km (420 miles) from Québec City.


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