Quebec Business Directory
Quebec , in French, Québec, is a province in the eastern part of Canada.It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay, to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick. It is bordered on the south by the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia.
Quebec is the second most populous province, after Ontario. Most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. English-speaking communities and English-language institutions are concentrated in Montreal but are also significantly present in the Outaouais, the Eastern Townships, and Gaspé regions. The Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples.
Nationalism plays a large role in the politics of Quebec, and all three major provincial political parties have sought greater autonomy for Quebec and recognition of its unique status.[10] Sovereigntist governments have held referendums on independence in 1980 and 1995. In 2006, the Canadian House of Commons passed a symbolic motion recognizing the "Québécois as a nation within a united Canada."
While the province's substantial natural resources have long been the mainstay of its economy, sectors of the knowledge economy such as aerospace, information and communication technologies, biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry also play leading roles.These many industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become the second most economically influencial province, second only to Ontario and followed by Alberta. Source Wikipedia
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Abercorn
Acton Vale
Albanel
Alma
Amos
Amqui
Angliers
Anjou
Armagh
Arundel
Asbestos
Ascot
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Auteuil
Ayers Cliff
Aylmer
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Baie-Comeau
Baie-du-Febvre
Baie-dUrfe
Baie-St-Paul
Baie-Ste-Catherine
Barraute
Beaconsfield
Beaucanton
Beauceville
Beauharnois
Beaulac-Garthby
Beaumont
Beauport
Beaupre
Becancour
Bedford
Bellefeuille
Belleterre
Beloeil
Berthierville
Biencourt
Bishopton
Black Lake
Blainville
Bois-des-Filion
Boisbriand
Boischatel
Bonaventure
Boucherville
Bouchette
Breakeyville
Brigham
Bromont
Bromptonville
Brossard
Brownsburg
Bryson
Buckingham
Bury
C.
Cabano
Cacouna
Cadillac
Calumet
Campbells Bay
Candiac
Cantley
Cap-aux-Meules
Cap-de-la-Madeleine
Cap-Rouge (164)
Cap-Saint-Ignace
Carignan
Carillon
Chambly
Chambord
Champlain
Chandler
Chapais
Chapeau
Charette
Charlemagne
Charlesbourg
Charny
Chartierville
Chateau-Richer
Chateauguay
Chelsea
Chertsey
Chesterville
Chibougamau
Chicoutimi
Chisasibi
Chomedey
Clermont
Clova
Coaticook
Compton
Contrecoeur
Cookshire
Cote-St-Luc
Coteau-du-Lac
Courcelette
Courcelles
Cowansville
Crabtree
D.
Danville
Daveluyville
Deauville
Degelis
Delisle
Delson
Desbiens
Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent
Deux-Montagnes
Disraeli
Dolbeau-Mistassini
Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Donnacona
Dorval
Drummondville
Dubuisson
Dunham
Duparquet
Dupuy
Duvernay
E.
East Angus
East Broughton
East Farnham
East Hereford
Eastmain
Eastman
Entrelacs
Evain
F.
Fabre
Fabreville
Falardeau
Farnham
Fassett
Ferme-Neuve
Fleurimont
Forestville
Fort-Coulonge
Fortierville
Frelighsburg
Fugereville
Gaspe
Gatineau
Gentilly
Girardville
Gracefield
Granby
Grand-Mere
Grand-Remous
Grandes-Bergeronnes
Grandes-Piles
Greenfield Park
Grenville
Guigues
H.
Ham-Nord
Hampstead
Harrington Harbour
Havre-aux-Maisons
Hebertville
Hebertville-Station
Hemmingford
Henryville
Howick
Hudson
Hull
Huntingdon
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Iberville
Inverness
J.
Joliette
Jonquiere
K.
Kahnawake
Kazabazua
Kingsey Falls
Kirkland
Knowlton
Kuujjuaq
L.
La Baie
La Corne
La Dore
La Guadeloupe
La Malbaie
La Minerve
La Patrie
La Plaine
La Pocatiere
La Prairie
La Reine
La Sarre
La Tuque
Labelle
Lac Kenogami
Lac-Bouchette
Lac-Brome
Lac-des-Ecorces
Lac-Drolet
Lac-du-Cerf
Lac-Etchemin
Lac-Frontiere
Lac-Megantic
Lac-Saguay
LAcadie
Lachenaie
Lachine
Lachute
Lacolle
Lafontaine
Lambton
LAncienne-Lorette
LAnge-Gardien
LAnnonciation
Lanoraie
LaSalle
LAssomption
Laterriere
Latulipe
Laurentides
Laurier-Station
Laurierville
Laval
Laval-des-Rapides
Lavaltrie
LAvenir
Laverlochere
Lawrenceville (
Le Gardeur
Lebel-sur-Quevillon
Leclercville
LeMoyne
Lennoxville
Lepiphanie
Lery
Les Cedres
Les Coteaux
Les Eboulements
Les Escoumins
Levis
LIle-Bizard
LIle-Perrot
Longueuil
Loretteville
Lorraine
Lorrainville
Louiseville
Louvicourt
Low
Luceville
Luskville
Lyster
M.
Macamic
Magog
Malartic
Maniwaki
Manouane
Manseau
Mansonville
Maple Grove
Maria
Marieville
Mascouche
Maskinonge
Masson-Angers
Massueville
Matagami
Matane
Mcmasterville
Melbourne
Melocheville
Mercier
Metabetchouan
Mirabel
Mistassini
Mont-Joli
Mont-Laurier
Mont-Louis
Mont-Royal
Mont-St-Hilaire
Mont-Tremblant
Montebello
Montmagny
Montreal
Montreal-Est
Montréal-Nord
Montréal-Ouest
Morin-Heights
N.
Nantes
Napierville
Nedelec
Neuville
New Richmond
Nicolet
Norbertville
Normandin
Normetal
North Hatley
Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix
Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette
Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge
Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil
Notre-Dame-du-Lac
Notre-Dame-du-Laus
Notre-Dame-du-Nord
O.
Oka
Omerville
Orford
Ormstown
Otterburn Park
Outremont
P.
Palmarolle
Papineauville
Parent
Perkins
Philipsburg
Pierrefonds (
Pierreville
Pincourt
Pintendre
Plaisance
Plessisville
Pohenegamook
Pointe Aux Trembles
Pointe-Calumet
Pointe-Claire
Pointe-des-Cascades
Pointe-Fortune
Pont-Rouge
Pont-Viau
Pontiac
Portage-du-Fort
Portneuf
Prevost
Princeville
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Quebec
Quyon
R.
Radisson
Rawdon
Remigny
Repentigny
Richelieu
Richmond
Rigaud
Rimouski
Ripon
Riviere-Beaudette
Riviere-Bleue
Riviere-du-Loup
Riviere-Heva
Robertsonville
Roberval
Rock Forest
Rollet
Rosemere
Rougemont
Rouyn-Noranda
Roxboro
Roxton Falls
Roxton Pond
S.
Sabrevois
Saint Athanase
Saint Calixte
Saint Pierre D Orleans
Saint-Alexis-de-Montcalm
Saint-Antoine-de-Lavaltrie
Saint-Bruno
Saint-Élie
Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hyacinthe
Saint-Lambert
Saint-Laurent
Saint-Leonard
Saint-Marcel
Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil
Saint-Michel
Saint-Remi
Saint-Robert
Saint-Sulpice
Saint-Therese
Sainte-Foy
Sainte-Julienne
Sainte-Sophie
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Sanmaur
Sault-au-Mouton
Sawyerville
Sayabec
Scotstown
Senneterre
Senneville
Sept-Iles
Shawbridge
Shawinigan
Shawinigan-Sud
Shawville
Shefford
Sherbrooke
Shipshaw
Sillery
Sorel-Tracy
Squatec
St-Adolphe-dHoward
St-Agapit
St-Albert
St-Alexis-des-Monts
St-Alphonse-de-Granby
St-Andre-Avellie
St-Apollinaire
St-Augustin-de-Desmaures
St-Basile-le-Grand
St-Boniface-de-Shawinigan
St-Cesaire
St-Charles-de-Bellechasse
St-Chrysostome
St-Clet
St-Esprit (
St-Eugene-de-Guigues
St-Eustache
St-Felicien
St-Felix-de-Valois
St-Francois-du-Lac
St-Fulgence
St-Gabriel-de-Brandon
St-Georges
St-Guillaume
St-Hilarion
St-Hugues
St-Jacques
St-Jean-de-Dieu
St-Jean-de-Matha
St-Jean-des-Piles
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu
St-Jerome
St-Joseph-de-la-Rive
St-Joseph-de-Sorel
St-Jovite
St-Jude
St-Lambert-de-Lauzon
St-Laurent
St-Leonard (
St-Liboire
St-Louis-de-France
St-Luc
St-Ludger
St-Malo
St-Marc-des-Carrieres
St-Methode-de-Frontenac
St-Nicolas
St-Pascal
St-Paul-dAbbotsford
St-Paulin
St-Pierre-les-Becquets
St-Polycarpe
St-Sauveur
St-Sauveur-des-Monts
St-Simeon
St-Simon-de-Bagot
St-Simon-de-Rimouski
St-Sylvestre
St-Thomas-dAquin
St-Timothee
St-Tite
St-Tite-des-Caps
St-Wenceslas
St-Zotique
St. Denis Sur Le Richelieu
St. Henri de Levis
St. Honore
St. Sebastien
St. Vincent de Paul
Stanstead
Ste-Agathe
Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre
Ste-Anne-du-Lac
Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval
Ste-Catherine
Ste-Eulalie
Ste-Foy
Ste-Genevieve
Ste-Helene-de-Bagot
Ste-Jeanne-dArc
Ste-Julie
Ste-Julie-de-Vercheres
Ste-Justine
Ste-Madeleine
Ste-Marie-de-Blandford
Ste-Marthe
Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
Ste-Perpetue
Ste-Petronille
Ste-Rosalie
Ste-Rose
Ste-Rose-du-Nord
Ste-Thecle
Ste-Victoire
Ste. Angele de Laval
Stoke
Stoneham
Stukely-Sud
Sutton
T.
Tadoussac
Taschereau
Temiscaming
Terrebonne
Thetford Mines
Thurso
Tingwick
Tring-Jonction
Trois-Pistoles
Trois-Rivieres
U.
Upton
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Val-Alain
Val-Barrette
Val-Belair
Val-David
Val-des-Bois
Val-dOr
Valcartier (
Valcourt
Vallee-Jonction
Vanier
Varennes
Vaudreuil
Vaudreuil-Dorion
Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac
Venise-en-Quebec
Vercheres (
Verdun
Victoriaville
Ville-Marie
Vimont
W.
Wakefield
Warden
Warwick
Waskaganish
Waswanipi
Waterloo
Waterville
Weedon
Wemindji
Westbury
Westmount
Wickham
Windsor
Woburn
Wotton
Y.
Yamachiche
Yamaska
Yamaska-Est
The province occupies a vast territory (nearly three times the size of France or Texas), most of which is very sparsely populated. Quebec's highest point is Mont D'Iberville, located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province.
The Saint Lawrence River is one of the world's largest sustaining large inland Atlantic ports at Montreal (the province's largest city), Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City (the capital). Its access to the Atlantic Ocean and the interior of North America made it the base of early French exploration and settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1959, the Saint Lawrence Seaway has provided a navigable link between the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes. Northeast of Quebec City, the river broadens into the world's largest estuary, the feeding site of numerous species of whales, fishes and sea birds.[18] The river empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. This marine environment sustains fisheries and smaller ports in the Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent), Lower North Shore (Côte-Nord), and Gaspé (Gaspésie) regions of the province.
Satellite view of three Monteregian Hills in Saint Lawrence Lowlands.The most populous physiographic region is the Saint Lawrence Lowland. It extends northeastward from the southwestern portion of the province along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River to the Quebec City region, and includes Anticosti Island, the Mingnan Archipelago.[19] and other small islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence[20] Its landscape is low-lying and flat, except for isolated igneous outcrops near Montreal called the Monteregian Hills. Geologically, the lowlands formed as a rift valley about 100 million years ago and are prone to infrequent but significant earthquakes.[21] The most recent layers of sedimentary rock were formed as the seabed of the ancient Champlain Sea at the end of the last ice age about 14,000 years ago.[22] The combination of rich and easily arable soils and Quebec's warmest climate make the valley Quebec's most prolific agricultural area. Mixed forests provide most of Canada's maple syrup crop every spring. The rural part of the landscape is divided into narrow rectangular tracts of land that extend from the river and date back to settlement patterns in 17th century New France.
Robert-Bourassa Dam, part of James Bay Project on Canadian Shield.More than 90% of Quebec's territory lies within the Canadian Shield, a rough, rocky terrain sculpted and scraped clean of soil by successive ice ages. It is rich in the forestry, mineral and hydro-electric resources that are a mainstay of the Quebec economy. Primary industries sustain small cities in regions of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, and Côte-Nord. In the Labrador Peninsula portion of the Shield, the far northern region of Nunavik includes the Ungava Peninsula and consists of Arctic tundra inhabited mostly by the Inuit. Further south lie subarctic taiga and boreal forest, where spruce, fir, and poplar trees provide raw materials for Quebec's pulp and paper and lumber industries. Although inhabited principally by the Cree, Naskapi, and Innu First Nations, thousands of temporary workers reside at Radisson to service the massive James Bay Hydroelectric Project on the La Grande and Eastmain rivers. The southern portion of the shield extends to the Laurentians, a mountain range just north of Montreal and Quebec City that attracts local and international tourists to ski hills and lakeside resorts.
The mixed forests of the Appalachian Mountains flank the eastern portion of the province, extending from New England into the Eastern Townships, northeastward through the Beauce region, and on to the Gaspé Peninsula, where they disappear into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This region sustains a mix of forestry, industry, and tourism based on its natural resources and landscape.
