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Example sentences for: québécois
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The Québécois began to settle here in any great numbers only in the second half of the 19th century, when an enterprising curate, Antoine Labelle of St-Jérôme, promoted it as an alternative for peasants who were otherwise immigrating to New England.
In the southern half of the park, the Musée de Québec possesses a first-rate collection of Québécois painting and sculpture, as well as historic furniture, jewelry, and gold and silver church ornaments.
Whereas Montréal has become increasingly “Americanized,” the provincial capital remains unmistakably, even defiantly Québécois, if not downright “French.”
To cope with the rival claims of Loyalists and Québécois, the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the colony into Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Québec), separated by the Ottawa River.
But Lower Canada’s pragmatic Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine accepted the British framework as a means of asserting the Québécois’ right to equal representation.