history

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• - Early history of Quebec with a focus on the beliefs and values imported into a Canadian culture.
  
• - History of the time in which the French explored North America and founded there the colony of New France. Site includes museum information and a virtual museum.
  
• - An exhibition representing the history of New France (Québec), with over 350 archival documents categorized into themes including administration, settlement, trade and warfare.
  
• - Includes complete reports, videos, photo gallery and timeline.
  
• - Canada's last broad gauge railway.
  
• - Contains descriptions and reproductions of documents related to New France, from different archival centres in France and Canada.
  
• - Tidbits from the history of ancestors. Various original lists: Ships, Carignan, Census, first settlers, and town plans.
  
• - This regiment was used between 1665 and 1668 to combat the Iroquois threat to the struggling colony of New France.
  
• - Documents, speeches and interpretations regarding the October, 1970 crisis in Quebec involving the kidnapping of diplomat James Cross and Cabinet Minister Pierre LaPorte by the Front de Liberation du Quebec.
  
• - Recounts Jacques Cartier's arrival at Hochelaga in 1535, the naming of Mount Royal (Montreal) and the coverage in Europe.
  
• - Academic site which covers the main issues, events and concepts of Quebec history. Includes documents, maps, pictures, readings, statistics, and links.
  
• - A summary of the history of Quebec from the New France era (1524) to modern day.
  
• - Biographies of French Canadian pioneers, and histories of French-Canadian settlements across the continent.
  
• - A history of the Scots who emigrated from the Isle of Lewis in the Nineteenth Century and settled in Quebec.
  
• - Official site for the history of the Lachine Canal.