For the last 20 years, summer in Quebec's downtown cannot do without a celebration of the North American region's colonization by France. Back in 1608, the first Europeans arrived on the continent and ...

De Champlain—widely regarded as the father of New France—would remain the administrator of New France until his death in 1635. In 1763, following the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, France would ...

The crafting of policies that respect both French and English is a hallmark of Quebec history, repudiated by the Coalition ...

In New France, however, concerted efforts were made to teach the new arrivals French – and it was the version spoken at the royal court by the aristocrats of the north and west.

As a consequence, a significant number of supposed French names in Quebec are not found in France. By the end of the 1600s, it is believed that 130 of all the 2,500 families in New France, or roughly ...