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Rouyn-Noranda (provincial Electoral District)
Rouyn-Noranda () was a former provincial electoral district in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec (known as the Legislative Assembly of Quebec until December 1968). It was located in and around the city of Rouyn-Noranda. It was created for the 1944 election from parts of the now-defunct Témiscamingue electoral district. Its final election was in 1976. It disappeared in the 1981 election and its successor electoral district was Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue is a provincial electoral district in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada, which elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes large portions of the city of Rouyn-Noranda .... Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly External links Election results(National Assembly) Election results(Quebecpolitique.com) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rouyn-Noranda Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 147,082 people as of the 2021 census. The region is divided into five regional county municipalities (French: ''municipalité régionale de comté'', or MRC) and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by resource extraction industries. These include logging and mining all along the rich geologic Cadillac Fault between Val-d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda, as well as agriculture. History The Algonquins are indigenous to the region. The first French expeditions were made in 1670 by Radisson as part of the development of the fur trade industry across the Hudson Bay region and through most of the New France colony. Fort Témiscamingue, located on the east banks of Lake Timiskaming and erected by a French merchant on Anishinaabe lands in 1720, was an important cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Quebec
The National Assembly of Quebec (, ) is the Legislature, legislative body of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; ). The lieutenant governor of Quebec (representing the King of Canada) and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Québec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other Westminster system, Westminster-style parliamentary systems. The assembly has 125 members elected via first past the post from single-member districts. The National Assembly was formerly the lower house of Quebec's legislature and was then called the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. In 1968, the upper house, the Legislative Council of Quebec, Legislative Council, was abolished and the remaining house was renamed. The office of President of the National Assembly of Quebec, President of the National Assembly is equivalent to speaker in other legislatures. As of the 2022 Quebec general electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Quebec
A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the authority, legal authority to make laws for a Polity, political entity such as a Sovereign state, country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the Executive (government), executive and Judiciary, judicial powers of government. Legislatures can exist at different levels of government–national, state/provincial/regional, local, even supranational (such as the European Parliament). Countries differ as to what extent they grant deliberative assemblies at the subnational law-making power, as opposed to purely administrative responsibilities. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as Primary and secondary legislation, primary legislation. In addition, legislatures may observe and steer governing actions, with authority to amend the budget involved. The members of a legislature are called legislators. In a democracy, legislators are most commonly popularly Election, elected, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouyn-Noranda
Rouyn-Noranda (; Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population 42,313) is a city on Osisko Lake in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The city of Rouyn-Noranda is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and Census geographic units of Canada, census division (CD) of Quebec of the same name. Their geographical code is 86. History The city of Rouyn (named for Jean-Baptiste Rouyn, a captain in the Régiment Royal Roussillon of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm) appeared after copper was discovered in 1917. Noranda (a contraction of "North Canada") was created later around the Noranda (mining company), Horne mine and foundry. Both were officially constituted as cities in 1926, then merged in 1986. Since 1966, Rouyn and Noranda constitute the capital of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. It is also the seat of (UQAT) since 1983. The population tends to increase or decrease dramatically depending on the economic situation. The city's populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Quebec General Election
The 1944 Quebec general election was held on August 8, 1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The , led by former premier Maurice Duplessis, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout. This was the first Quebec provincial election in which women were allowed to vote, having been granted suffrage at the provincial level in 1941 (much later than what had been fully attained at the federal level in 1919). This election marked Duplessis's comeback after having defeated Godbout in the 1936 election and having lost to him in the 1939 election. Unlike in the 1939 election, when the alcoholic Duplessis was clearly drunk at numerous campaign rallies, ''le chef'' had benefited from the time he had spent in an American sanatorium in 1942-43, where he had sobered up, and in the 1944 election, Duplessis refrained from drinking. The biggest issue during this election was provincial autonomy. In order to appeal to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Témiscamingue (provincial Electoral District)
Témiscamingue is a former provincial electoral district in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. It was created for the 1912 Quebec general election, 1912 election from part of Pontiac (provincial electoral district), Pontiac electoral district. its final election was in 1970 Quebec general election, 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 Quebec general election, 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Pontiac–Témiscamingue (provincial electoral district), Pontiac-Témiscamingue. From 1912 to 1922, it was also known as Temiscaming. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly * Charles Ramsay Devlin, Quebec Liberal Party, Liberal, (1912–1916) * Télesphore Simard (MNA), Télesphore Simard, Liberal (1916–1924) * Joseph Miljours, Liberal (1924–1927) * Joseph-Édouard Piché, Liberal (1927–1935) * Nil-Élie Larivière, Action liberale nationale – Union Nationale (Quebec), Union Nationale (1935–1939) * Paul-Oliva Goulet, Liberal ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Quebec General Election
The 1976 Quebec general election was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the 1960 Quebec general election, 1960 general election, and caused major repercussions in the rest of Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Robert Bourassa. The Parti Québécois's campaign focused on providing good government, in contrast to the many scandals that had plagued the Liberals since 1973. The PQ's stated goal of achieving independence for Quebec from Canada was portrayed as only secondary, but the election of a Quebec sovereignty movement, sovereigntist government in Quebec caused great upset in the rest of Canada and led to extensive discussions about reforming the Canadian Confederation and finding ways of accommodating Quebec. The Parti Québ� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Quebec General Election
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Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue
Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue is a provincial electoral district in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada, which elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes large portions of the city of Rouyn-Noranda as well as the cities or municipalities of Ville-Marie, Témiscaming, Lorrainville, Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues, Notre-Dame-du-Nord and Laverlochère-Angliers. No incumbent since Rémy Trudel (who won re-election in 1998) has won re-election in the riding. It was created for the 1981 election from parts of Rouyn-Noranda, Gatineau Gatineau ( ; ) is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the northern bank of the Ottawa River, directly across from Ottawa, Ontario. Gatineau is the largest city in the Outaouais administrative region of Quebec and is also p ... and Pontiac-Témiscamingue electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the National A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Provincial Electoral Districts Of Quebec
A former is an object, such as a template, Gauge block, gauge or cutting Die (manufacturing), die, which is used to form something such as a boat's Hull (watercraft), hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the Flight control surfaces#Longitudinal_axis, longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
