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This is a demographic history of Quebec chronicling the evolution of the non-indigenous ... Year Population Change Percent change 1605 44 N/A N/A 1608 28 -16
An Inuit inuksuk at the Place de l'Assemblée-Nationale in front of the Parliament of Quebec. Although they represent today approximately 3% of the Quebec population, the indigenous peoples of Quebec have contributed a lot to Quebec society thanks to their ideals of respect for flora, fauna, nature and the environment as well as thanks to their ...
More than 2,500 sites in Quebec today are ... 29.3% of Quebec's population stated their ancestry was of ... The first to write the history of Quebec, ...
Quebec City was founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain. Some other towns were founded before, like Tadoussac in 1604 which still exists today, but Quebec was the first to be meant as a permanent settlement and not a simple trading post. Over time, it became a province of Canada and all of New France.
In 1763, France formally ceded its claims to le Canada, and Quebec City's French-speaking Catholic population came under the rule of Protestant Britain. The Quebec Act , passed in 1774, allowed 'les Canadiens' (today, also referred to as the Québécois ) to have religious and linguistic freedoms, to openly practice their Catholicism and use ...
According to Statistics Canada, at the time of the 2011 Canadian census the city of Montreal proper had 1,649,519 inhabitants. [5] A total of 3,824,221 lived in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) at the same 2011 census, up from 3,635,556 at the 2006 census (within 2006 CMA boundaries), which means a population growth rate of +5.2% between 2006 and 2011. [6]
Quebec City [a] 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 Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) [14] had a population of 839,311. [15] It is the twelfth-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Top left: The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely inhabited and heavily industrialized region accounting for nearly 50 percent of the total population [1] Canada ranks 37th by population among countries of the world, comprising about 0.5% of the world's total, [2] with more than 40 million Canadians as of 2024.