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Motivations for colonization: The French colonized North America to create trading posts for the fur trade. Some French missionaries eventually made their way to North America in order to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

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The rapid assimilation of French immigrants into American society enabled Americans to study and emulate French culture, manners, cuisine, fashion, art, and literature. French military officers made major contributions to our War of Independence and after the War, France became America’s first ally.

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The name is French for “Royal Mount.”

Its mix of architecture, history, art and French culture make the Canadian provincial capital feel like Europe, at half the travel time and a fraction of the cost. One of North America’s oldest European settlements, Quebec City may be rooted in its French heritage, but it has clearly created its own identity.

The National Assembly adopted the snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca) as Quebec’s official bird in 1987. Unlike other owls, the snowy owl isn’t exclusively nocturnal. It hunts both day and night, surviving mainly on lemmings. Quebec decided to select the snowy owl as a symbol of the province’s support for wildlife protection.

It produces meat, dairy products, fruit, vegetables, foie gras, maple syrup (of which Quebec is the world’s largest producer), fish, and livestock.

The Home Depot: Home Improvement & Hardware Store in Québec. The Home Depot #7162 is located at 300 rue Bouvier, Québec in Quebec, Canada and offers all of Home Depot’s signature products, tools, and services.

Quebec offers $17 billion, or 26 per cent, more in services than Ontario, while its GDP is 14 per cent less, they observed. That means even though Quebec is poorer, it spends far more. “There is a sense of emergency,” said task force member Pierre Fortin, a University of Quebec at Montreal economist.

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