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In the mid-19th century there were enough arrivals to open part-time consulates in Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax. After 1859 the main attraction was free farm land. After 1867 the national government gave immigrants from Belgium a preferred status, and encouraged emigration to the Francophone Catholic communities of Quebec and Manitoba.
At present, the capital city of Ottawa hosts 130 embassies/high commissions. Several other countries accredit their embassies and missions in the United States to Canada. This listing excludes honorary consulates. Map of diplomatic missions in Canada
Nord-du-Québec (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ d͜zy kebɛk]; English: Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Spread over nearly 14 degrees of latitude, north of the 49th parallel, the region covers 860,692 km 2 (332,315 sq mi) on the Labrador Peninsula , making it ...
Quebec had agents-general in London, Paris, and Brussels prior to 1936, when legislation was passed by the government of Maurice Duplessis closing all Quebec government offices abroad. The government of Adélard Godbout repealed the legislation and opened an office in New York City in 1940. When Duplessis returned to power in 1944, his ...
Canada has an embassy in Brussels. Cuba: 18 August 1902 Diplomatic relations were established on 18 August 1902. [194] In 1837, Belgian negotiating sale right ownership of Cuba from Spanish government. [195] Belgium has an embassy in Havana. Cuba has an embassy in Brussels. Mexico: 19 November 1839: See Belgium–Mexico relations
The Côte-Nord is bounded to the west by the Capitale-Nationale and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions and, to the north, by the Nord-du-Québec region and by Labrador. To the south, it extends from Tadoussac to the east of Blanc-Sablon , encompassing Anticosti Island and part of the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence .
Northern Quebec (French: le nord du Québec) is a geographic term denoting the northerly, more remote and less populated parts of the Canadian province of Quebec. [1]The term has two related, overlapping but not identical usages; depending on the context, it may refer specifically to the administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, [2] or to a broader geographic area also inclusive of the ...
From 1982 to 1986, Roy occupied important diplomatic positions in Washington, D.C. [2] He was named ambassador to Switzerland in 1990 and left in 1994 to become Ambassador of Canada to the European Union, a post he held until 1996. [2] He then became Ambassador of Canada to France from 1996 to 2000.