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Quesnel
Quesnel or Quesnell means "little oak" in the Picard language, Picard dialect of French language, French. It is used as a proper name and may refer to: Places * Le Quesnel, a commune the Somme department in France * Quesnel, British Columbia, a city in British Columbia, Canada * Quesnel Forks, British Columbia, a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada * Quesnell Heights, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Geographical features * Quesnel Lake * Quesnel River * Quesnel Highland People * Adam Quesnell (born 1981/1982), American stand-up comedian * Chantal Quesnel (born 1971), Canadian actress * Désiré Quesnel (1843–1915), French wood-engraver * François Quesnel (1543–1619), 16th-century French artist * François Jean Baptiste Quesnel (1768–1819), French general under Napoleon * Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel (1785–1866) Canadian lawyer and politician * Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809), Canadian operatic composer/playwright * Jules-Maurice Quesnel (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quesnel, British Columbia
Quesnel () is a city in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Located nearly evenly between the cities of Prince George and Williams Lake, it is on the main route to northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Quesnel is located at the confluence of the Fraser River and Quesnel River. As of 2021, Quesnel's metropolitan area ( census agglomeration) had a population of 23,113 making it one of the largest urban centres between Prince George and Kamloops. Quesnel is a sister city to Shiraoi, Japan. Quesnel hosted the 2000 BC Winter Games, a biennial provincial amateur sports competition. To the east of Quesnel is Wells, Barkerville, and Bowron Lake Provincial Park, a popular canoeing destination in the Cariboo Mountains. History Long before the arrival of prospectors during the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1862, the First Nations peoples, the Dakelh or Southern Carrier, lived off the land around Quesnel, occupying the area from the Bowron Lakes in the east to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Quesnell
Adam Quesnell is an American stand-up comedian and screenwriter from Fargo, North Dakota now living in Los Angeles. Quesnell has released two comedy albums on Stand Up! Records, 2014's ''Can We Afford This Much Despair?'' and 2018's ''Despair 2: Social Justice Warlord'', as well as the 2018 single ''Egghead''. Early life Quesnell was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, where he graduated from Lincoln High School. His father, Curt Quesnell, was a broadcaster on Thief River Falls radio stations KKAQ-AM and KKDQ-FM, where he hosted the longtime show ''North Country Outdoors Radio'', and a fishing guide on Lake of the Woods. He earned an MFA in scriptwriting in 2007 from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Career Stand-up comedy ''Chicago Now'' called Quesnell's comedy "soul-lifting" in spite of his often dark subject matter. The Minnesota Daily described it as "dark but digestible", noting that his humor often deals with social anxiety. ''Fargo Monthly'' called him "goofy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel, (; February 4, 1785 – July 28, 1866), was a lawyer, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (now Quebec). He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Legislative Assembly and the Executive Council of Lower Canada, Executive Council of Lower Canada. Following the union of the Canadas, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and later was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, Legislative Council. Throughout his career he was a political moderate, seeking greater political power for French-Canadians under British rule, but also supporting the British connection generally. Condemned by the Parti canadien, Patriotes as a ''vendu'' ("sell-out") in the Lower Canada Rebellion, in 1860 he was elected President of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal. His achievements in commerce and finance showed that a Canadien, French Canadian could make his fortune in business. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Jean Baptiste Quesnel
François Jean Baptiste Quesnel du Torpt (; 18 January 1765 – 8 April 1819) became a division commander under the First French Empire of Napoleon. By the time the French Revolutionary Wars began, he had been a non-commissioned officer in the French army for nearly a decade. Within less than two years he rose to the rank of general officer while fighting against Spain. His career then stagnated until the War of the Second Coalition when he led a brigade in Italy at Battle of Verona (1799), Verona, Battle of Magnano, Magnano, Battle of Cassano (1799), Cassano, Battle of Bassignana (1799), Bassignana where he was wounded, and Battle of Novi (1799), Novi. Promoted to division command in 1805, he filled non-combat posts in the interior. He was captured in 1808 after participating in the Invasion of Portugal (1807), 1807 Invasion of Portugal. After being released, he served in the 1809 Invasion of Portugal but was later detached to lead a column of dismounted cavalrymen back to Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quesnel River
The Quesnel River is a major tributary of the Fraser River in the Cariboo District of central British Columbia. It begins at the outflow of Quesnel Lake, at the town of Likely and flows for about northwest to its confluence with the Fraser at the city of Quesnel. History Just downstream from the outlet of Quesnel Lake, at the confluence of the Cariboo River, is the historically important ghost town of Quesnel Forks, "the Forks", which was a junction point of the Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers. Various trails and wagon roads leading to the Cariboo goldfields lay across the low-hill range north of Quesnel Forks in the basin of the Cottonwood River. Both the Lillooet to Fort Alexandria wagon road and the later Cariboo Wagon Road came by Quesnel Forks but preferred to follow the valley of the Quesnel River to Quesnel and then east from there to the gold towns of Barkerville and Wells. The river took its name from Jules-Maurice Quesnel, who explored this region with Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quesnel Forks, British Columbia
Quesnel Forks, historically Quesnelle Forks, also simply known as "The Forks" or grandly known as "Quesnel City" is a ghost town in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located the junction of the Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers and is 60 km southeast of Quesnel and only 11 km northwest of Likely. History Quesnel Forks was founded in 1860 and was a major supply center for the Cariboo Gold Rush. Between 1860 and 1862 it catered to 2,000 or more transient miners annually and a resident population of approximately 100. When gold was discovered on Antler, Lightning and Williams Creek, on the north side of the Snowshoe Plateau, prospectors and packers continued to use the route via Quesnel Forks until a decent trail system was established via the Quesnel and the Cottonwood rivers. The Quesnel Forks Bridge (initially a toll bridge) provided the only access to the village and the mining regions of Keithley Creek and the Snowshoe Plateau until the 1920s. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Quesnel
Joseph Quesnel (15 November 1746 – 2 or 3 July 1809) was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright. Among his works were two operas, ''Colas et Colinette'' and ''Lucas et Cécile''; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera and probably of North America. Early life and education Quesnel was born in Saint-Malo, France, the third child of Isaac Quesnel de La Rivaudais (1712-1779), a prosperous merchant, and his wife Pélagie-Jeanne-Marguerite Duguen. He studied at the Collège Saint-Louis (1766). Life and career Quesnel joined the French merchant marine and sailed to Pondicherry and Madagascar, travelled in Africa, and the Caribbean. He engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1768, as a second-lieutenant on board the ''Mesny'', he sailed to Cabinda (modern-day Angola) where 514 "Blacks of all ages" were purchased and taken to modern-day Haiti where they were sold, according to French archival sources quoted in a novel about him. He carried with him his violi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules-Maurice Quesnel
Jules-Maurice Quesnel (October 25, 1786 – May 20, 1842) was a fur trader, member of the Beaver Club, businessman and political figure in Canada East. He was born Julien-Maurice Quesnel in Montreal in 1786, the son of Joseph Quesnel, and studied at the Collège Saint-Raphaël. He joined the North West Company as a clerk and assisted David Thompson in his explorations in 1805 and 1806. He travelled with Simon Fraser on his exploration of the Fraser River in 1808. The Quesnel River, Quesnel Lake, the town of Quesnel, and Jules Quesnel Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia are named after him. In 1811, he returned east and served in the Montreal militia during the War of 1812, reaching the rank of lieutenant. He then moved to Kingston and later York as a merchant, finally settling in Montreal. With a partner, John Spread Baldwin, he became involved in the buying and selling of goods, including the export of timber and flour and owned shares in steamships operating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Quesnel
François Quesnel (c. 1543–1619) was a French painter of Scottish extraction. Biography The son of the French painter Pierre Quesnel and his Scottish wife Madeleine Digby, born in Edinburgh while his father worked for Mary of Guise, Quesnel found patronage at the French court of Catherine de Medici and her son, Henri III (''illustration''). He married Charlotte Richandeau, with whom he had four children. A widower, he remarried in 1584 Marguerite Le Masson, who gave him ten more children, among whom were Nicolas (died 1632) and Augustin, painters, and Jacques, bookseller. In le Paris he worked as a decorator and a designer of cartoons for tapestry, but it is as a portrait painter, both in oils and in delicately tinted pencil or red and black chalk, that he is chiefly remembered. Some portraits were engraved by Thomas de Leu and Michel Lasne, and in 1609 he drew a map of Paris for engraving by Pierre Vallet. He died in le Paris. Tapestry designs In 1585 François provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Quesnel
Pierre Quesnel () was a 16th-century French artist who worked in Scotland, before returning to Paris with his family after the death of James V of Scotland. Career Pierre Quesnel worked in Scotland for Mary of Guise and James V. He is listed as an Usher in Guise's household and is identified as the "queen's painter" in the Scottish ''Treasurer's Accounts''. Artists at the French court were sometimes given positions as ushers or valets. Pierre Quesnel, described as "Perys the uscher", was given £10 at the time of Mary of Guise's coronation. According to an inscription on the back of a portrait of his son Nicholas, he married Madeleine Digby in Scotland, and his eldest son the painter François Quesnel was born in Edinburgh. Other French craftsmen working on the Scottish royal palaces include the woodcarver and metal-worker Andrew Mansioun and the mason Nicolas Roy. Pierre Quesnel was mentioned in the household accounts of Mary of Guise after the death of James V, but seems to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quesnel (sternwheeler)
''Quesnel'' was a paddle steamer, sternwheeler first launched in May 1909 at Quesnel, British Columbia to serve the Soda Creek to Prince George, British Columbia, Fort George route of the upper Fraser River. Career Originally named ''City of Quesnel'', she was truly a home town product: owned by Telesphore Marion, a local merchant, built by local carpenter, John Strand and piloted by local man, Captain Donald Arthur Foster. However, on her launch day, it was discovered that she rode too low in the water and that her hull needed to be lengthened. Shipbuilder Donald McPhee was already in town, having just completed the construction of another sternwheeler, the ''Nechacco (sternwheeler), Nechacco''. McPhee was hired to do the work and ''City of Quesnel'' was rebuilt and relaunched under the name ''Quesnel'' on September 2. Among the first of the upper Fraser River vessels built during the era of rail construction, she would also be the last. She served the district for six seasons, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quesnell Heights, Edmonton
Quesnell Heights is a neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is bounded by the Rio Terrace neighbourhood across 149 Street to the west, Whitemud Drive to the north and east, the North Saskatchewan River valley to the south, Quesnell Heights is also the smallest neighbourhood in Edmonton. The community is represented by the Rio Terrace Community League, established in 1960, which maintains a community hall, outdoor rink and tennis courts located at 155 Street and 76 Avenue. History Approximately 83% of construction in Quesnell Heights occurred during the 1960s with most of the remainder occurring during the 1970s. Demographics In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Quesnell Heights had a population of living in dwellings, a -10.6% change from its 2009 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012. Amenities Quesnell Park, one hectare in size, is located near the geographic centre of the neighbourhood betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
