(PDF) Stratégie QC. Cecobois. Cecobois: projets. (PDF) Pavillon Kruger. Hall, Pavillon Kruger. Quebec is the largest province in Canada and the only one with French as its official language. It takes its name from an Algonquin word meaning "narrows" where the St. Lawrence River cuts deeply through rock cliffs. Quebec has strong nationalistic feelings about its identity within Canada and has almost seceded twice (in fact, Quebec has held two referendums in order to seperate but it was not THAT successful.. though in 1996 it was really close...).
It recently (as of 2006) acquired symbolic status as a Quebecois nation within Canada. Quebec was founded in 1763 when France signed Canada over to Britain; the ceremonial head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, and the country's government functions as a parliamentary democracy. That being said, we are free to talk about poutine. Poutine is an amazing gastronomic assault weapon invented by a truck driver in 1957. Like the foundation to the house, the hull to the ship, like a Red Cross blood drive to Count Dracula, is poutine to Canadians.