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411 (telephone number) 411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [ 1] although its official name is "directory assistance".
Yellow Pages Group ( YPG) ( Groupe Pages Jaunes ( GPJ) in French) is a Canadian telephone directory publisher and digital marketing firm founded in 1908 and headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Historically known for distributing yellow pages phone books across Canada, into the 21st century YPG has primarily shifted to digital marketing services ...
Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec ...
Postal codes in Canada. A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [ 1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth ...
Montreal[ a ] ( French: Montréal[ b ]) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [ 18 ] it is now named after Mount Royal, [ 19 ] the triple-peaked hill around which the early settlement was built. [ 20 ]
Quebec City ( / kwɪˈbɛk / ⓘ or / kəˈbɛk /; [ 11] French: Ville de Québec ), officially known as Québec ( French pronunciation: [kebɛk] ), [ 12] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [ 13] and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. [ 14]
The following is a list of notable people from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. See Category: People from Quebec City for a more systematic list. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The City of Melville retains its city status despite dropping below 5,000 people in the 1990s. Kindersley has expressed an interest in applying for city status upon reaching the 5,000 milestone. [26] Saskatchewan's newest city is Warman, which changed from town to city status on October 24, 2012. [27] Saskatchewan has 16 cities.