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The Quebec Winter Carnival (French: Carnaval de Québec), commonly known in both English and French as Carnaval, is a pre-Lenten festival held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. After being held intermittently since 1894, the Carnaval de Québec has been celebrated annually since 1955. [ 1 ]
"Mon pays" ("My Country", or "My Homeland", in English) is a song composed by Quebec singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault in 1964. [1]The song was written for the NFB film The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan (La Neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan), directed by Arthur Lamothe. [1]
Chansons pour les mois d'hiver (2009) Les grands espaces ... Canada [1] Gold January 21, 2010 40,000 Charts. Weekly charts. Chart (2009) Peak position
British Columbia is Canada's most mountainous province and has some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the world. Alpine skiing is a major draw for the province. The province has about 33 large ski resorts spread out from Vancouver Island to the Alberta border.
In 2001, there were 146,618 marriages in Canada, down 6.8% from 157,395 in 2000, [1] but by 2020, there were only 98,355 marriages registered in Canada, which was the lowest total since 1938. [2] Prince Edward Island had the highest crude marriage rate (6.5 per 1,000 people) and Quebec had the lowest (3.0).
Canadienne cattle – the only breed of dairy cattle developed in Canada; Cymric cat – The Cymric is a muscular, compact, medium-to-large cat that weighs between 3.2 to 5.9 kg (7 to 13 lb), and Canada claims to have developed the long-haired variant; Canadian Arcott – a breed of domestic sheep native to Canada
German pair team Madge Syers and Edgar Syers at the 1908 Olympics Liudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (the "Protopopovs"), in 1968 Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov, in 1972. The International Skating Union (ISU) defines pair skating as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as ...
O Canada" (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier .