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Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques (April 17, 1828 – April 29, 1880) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He represented Rouville in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1872 and from 1874 to 1878.
Le Cheval Blanc is a brewpub located on rue Ontario in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In 1986, it became the first licensed brewpub in Montreal. [1]Some of its craft beers available on tap being quite popular, in 1987 the establishment started a microbrewery of its own: La Brasserie Le Cheval Blanc, which is also said to be the city's first. [2]
The initial membership chose the club's blue and white burgee with 'G R Y C' surrounding a circle of rope, with an anchor at the center. The initial club fees were set at $5 a year. [ 1 ] By 1964, with a membership of 100 people, the club purchases an island for $12,000 near the site of the club's floating dock.
The ownership was merged with several other racetracks in Quebec and management was given to the SONACC (Societe nationale du cheval de course) Quebec government agency. The racetracks were sold in 2006 to Attractions Hippiques owned by Senator Paul Massicotte . [ 17 ]
The Confederation of Recreation in Quebec City chose to operate independently and leave the jurisdiction of the QAHA in 1959. [60] The QAHA regained a presence in the city after it gave approval to establish the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament in 1960, which operated as a minor hockey event during the Quebec Winter Carnival. [61]
CAA-Quebec's earliest predecessor was the Automobile Club of Canada founded by Andrew J. Dawes in 1904. Its first meeting was held on 28 July 1904 at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, Canada. On 9 August 1912, Frank Carrel founded the Quebec Automobile Club in Quebec.
A non-violent Quebec independence movement slowly took form in the late 1960s. The Parti Québécois was created by the sovereignty-association movement of René Lévesque ; it advocated recognizing Quebec as an equal and independent (or "sovereign") nation that would form an economic "association" with the rest of Canada.
The party had no success in winning any seat in 1989 election to the National Assembly of Quebec, and in the spring of 1990, asked the Direction of Elections of Quebec to dissolve the party because it no longer had enough members to form an executive committee. [5] In 2016, the party was relaunched by a Saint-Georges-based lawyer, Hans Mercier. [6]