Example sentences for: québécois

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

  • 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.


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