history

HISTORY

Algonquinos



Inuit


Mohawk

Cree

Innu

Before the arrival of the French, Qubec was inhabited by various aboriginal peoples, among which stand out the Algoquinos, Innu, Cree, Mohawk.

   

The first historian French in Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who in 1534 established in Gaspe a large wooden cross with three fleurs-de-lis, taking possession of the lands in the name of France, Carter discovered the St. Lawrence River in 1608 Samuel de Champlain gave birth to New France, founded on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in a place the Indians called Kebek (narrow), the city of Quebec.

The French alliance with the Hurons and other Indians against Indians iroquinos, who were allies of the British, the Seven Years War between Britain and France.

The UK took Possession of New France with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 when King Louis XV of France and his advisors chose to keep Guadeloupe, on the sugar, instead of Quebec, at that time considered as a large area of ice without importance, in the wake of this treaty most aristocrats returned to France.

In 1774 the law of Quebec, London giving official recognition to the rights of the people of Quebec French: the use of the French language, the practice of the Catholic religion, the use of Roman law, rather than the Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. Before this date the situation of the Catholic religion was very fragile and the possibilities for Catholics were very limited.

Ontario

Quebec

In 1791 the Constitutional Act of Canada, established two provinces around the Ottawa River, Upper Canada (now Ontario) and Lower Canada (now Quebec), mostly Francophone province.

In 1948 is approved the current flag of Quebec as official and the language French turn co-official together to English in Canada since 1968; In 1976 won the choices the national party Quebequense of Rene Levesque,  promulgating the ley 101 for the wich the Frech ,being the languaje  of Qubec official.