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French-speaking students from the Université du Québec à Montréal meet in cafés, bistros, and bookshops along rue St-Denis.
Tough coureurs de bois sought furs from the Huron in Ontario and Algonquin in Québec, quickly learning language and customs and even marrying into the tribes.
In 1610, navigator Henry Hudson thought he had located the fabled Northwest Passage for his London backers when, rounding the northern tip of Québec and heading south, he hoped, to China, he found himself locked in a vast bay on which he left his life and name.
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).
Québec is said to be derived from an Algonquin word meaning “where the river narrows,” and this becomes most apparent when you see the city’s great outcrop of rock, jutting out over the St. Lawrence.