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Much that Sykes guessed was right, the Naneghat inscription he had found was indeed one of the oldest Sanskrit inscriptions. [12] He was incorrect in his presumption that it was a Buddhist inscription because its translation suggested it was a Hindu inscription. [1] The Naneghat inscription were a prototype of the refined Devanagari to emerge ...
Quebec City: Les Percéides: Percé: Film [32] Plein(s) écran(s) Montreal: Short films [33] Pop Montreal: Montreal: Music, film [34] Quebec City Celtic Festival: Quebec City: Quebec City Film Festival: Quebec City [35] Quebec City Summer Festival: Quebec City: Quebec City Winter Carnival: Quebec City: Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma: Montreal ...
Vietnamese Canadians singing during Lunar New Year at St. Joseph's Church, Vancouver. Mainstream Vietnamese communities began arriving in Canada in the mid-1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, though a couple thousand were already living in Quebec before then, most of whom were students.
The Commission de toponymie du Québec (French pronunciation: [kɔmisjɔ̃ də tɔpɔnimi dy kebɛk], Toponymy Commission of Québec) is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicizing Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules.
In 1977, the Quebec Parliament declared June 24, the day of La Saint-Jean-Baptiste, to be Quebec's National Holiday. La Saint-Jean-Baptiste, or La St-Jean, honours French Canada's patron saint, John the Baptist. On this day, the song "Gens du pays", by Gilles Vigneault, is often heard. This song is commonly regarded as Quebec's unofficial anthem.
The National Archives of Quebec (French: Archives nationales du Québec, ANQ) were founded on 2 September 1920, with Pierre-Georges Roy as Quebec's first Head Archivist. . The purpose of the institution was to process historical materials, more specifically public archives and the Quebec government's archives, and to collect documents pertaining to the history of Quebec. the ANQ were brought ...
Indigenous peoples in Quebec (Quebec French: peuples autochtones du Québec) total eleven distinct ethnic groups. The one Inuit community and ten First Nations communities number 141,915 people and account for approximately two per cent of the population of Quebec , Canada.
Record of President Ho Chi Minh reading the declaration of Vietnam. National Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Quốc Khánh) is a national holiday in Vietnam observed on 2 September, commemorating President Hồ Chí Minh reading the Declarations of independence of Vietnam at Ba Đình Square in Hanoi on 2 September 1945.