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The Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ; English: "Quebec Women's Federation") is a feminist organization binding individuals and groups in a common goal to "promote and defend the interests and the rights of women and to fight against all forms of violence, discrimination, marginalization and exclusion towards women" [1] in Quebec, Canada.
Site Date(s) Designated Location Description Image 57-63 St. Louis Street [3]: 1705-1811 (period of construction) 1969 Quebec City: Three early eighteenth and nineteenth century stone houses within the walls of Quebec City's Upper Town at the foot of Cavelier du Moulin Park; a notable grouping of buildings from the French Regime
Micheline Dumont CM CQ (born 1935) is a Canadian historian, lecturer and professor. She is a specialist in the history of women in Quebec.She is particularly known as the co-author, with Marie Lavigne, Jennifer Stoddart, and Michèle Stanton, of L'Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles, the first synthesis on the subject.
Sites in the province's two largest cities are listed separately at List of National Historic Sites in Montreal and List of National Historic Sites in Quebec City. Numerous National Historic Events also occurred in Quebec, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks National Historic Sites.
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain, a French explorer and diplomat, on 3 July 1608, [26] [27] and at the site of a long abandoned St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona. Champlain, who came to be called "The Father of New France ", served as its administrator for the rest of his life.
Sainte-Christine (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t kʁistin] ⓘ) is a parish municipality in Acton Regional County Municipality, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 730.
Oka is a small village on the northern bank of the Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais in French), northwest of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Located in the Laurentians valley on Lake of Two Mountains, where the Ottawa has its confluence with the St. Lawrence River, the town is connected via Quebec Route 344.