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The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers. It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québec. It brings together writers and intellectuals of all disciplines. It can have up to 42 members.
The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian French language writer who has published work in either Canada or France. [ 1 ] Administered by Quebec 's General Delegation in Paris and the Fédération France-Quebec, the award was first presented in 1958 as the Prix Québec-Paris . [ 2 ]
Prix Denise-Pelletier, for acting; Prix Ernest-Cormier, for architecture and design; Prix Georges-Émile-Lapalme, for the French language; Prix Gérard-Morisset, for a career in archives, museology and popular culture; Prix Guy-Mauffette, for radio and television arts; Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas, for visual arts and applied arts
Later still, QC evolved as the second two-letter non-punctuated abbreviation, making Quebec's abbreviation consistent with other provinces insofar as using letters solely from the name of the province, but not the word "province", as PQ did. [citation needed] New York State and New York City use QB to identify Quebec vehicle licence plates. [5]
1,298,599.75 km 2 (501,392.17 sq mi) 6.5 Mauricie–Bois-Francs was split in 1997 to create Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec administrative regions (note, the notion of Mauricie as a traditional region long predates this)
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Faced with the problem of expanding urban sprawl, agricultural zones were created to ensure the protection of fertile land, which make up 2% of Quebec's total area. Quebec's forests are essentially public property. The calculation of annual cutting possibilities is the responsibility of the Bureau du forestier en chef. [174]
Locomotive. The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (reporting mark MMA), itself a product of the 2002 Iron Road Railways bankruptcy, filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Canada on August 7, 2013, following the fiery Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, in which a runaway crude oil train killed forty-seven people and caused an estimated $200 million in property damage to downtown Lac ...