Quebec Hotels
Hotels in Quebec are often required by tourists who require accommodation in the region. Some may want to see the big cities, towns, the villages, the culture, the entertainment venues the sports, or his landmarks and scenery of the famous area of Quebec. Some may want a hotel that is luxury or cheap. Some may want a hotel that is large or small. Some may want hotel that has good parking facilities. Some may want hotel based in one of the cities or the rural areas. Some may want a hotel in the scenic areas.
Quebec is a province in the central part of Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level. Other elements of French tradition, such as the civil law legal system, also remain strong in Quebec.
The province occupies a vast territory (nearly three times the size of France or Texas), most of which is very sparsely populated. Quebec's highest point is Mont D'Iberville, located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province.
The
Saint Lawrence River is one of the world's largest sustaining large inland Atlantic
ports at Montreal (the province's largest city), Trois-Rivières, and Quebec
City (the capital). Its access to the Atlantic Ocean and the interior of North
America made it the base of early French exploration and settlement in the 17th
and 18th centuries. Since 1959, the Saint Lawrence Seaway has provided a navigable
link between the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes. Northeast of Quebec City, the
river broadens into the world's largest estuary, the feeding site of numerous
species of whales, fishes and sea birds. The river empties into the Gulf of Saint
Lawrence. This marine environment sustains fisheries and smaller ports in the
Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent), Lower North Shore (Côte-Nord),
and Gaspé (Gaspésie) regions of the province.
More than 90% of Quebec's territory lies within the Canadian Shield, a rough, rocky terrain sculpted and scraped clean of soil by successive ice ages. It is rich in the forestry, mineral and hydro-electric resources that are a mainstay of the Quebec economy. Primary industries sustain small cities in regions of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean, and Côte-Nord. In the Labrador Peninsula portion of the Shield, the far northern region of Nunavik includes the Ungava Peninsula and consists of Arctic tundra inhabited mostly by the Inuit. Further south lie subarctic taiga and boreal forest, where spruce, fir, and poplar trees provide raw materials for Quebec's pulp and paper and lumber industries. Although inhabited principally by the Cree, Naskapi, and Innu First Nations, thousands of temporary workers reside at Radisson to service the massive James Bay Hydroelectric Project on the La Grande and Eastmain rivers. The southern portion of the shield extends to the Laurentians, a mountain range just north of Montreal and Quebec City that attracts local and international tourists to ski hills and lakeside resorts.
The mixed forests of the Appalachian Mountains flank the eastern portion of the province, extending from New England into the Eastern Townships, northeastward through the Beauce region, and on to the Gaspé Peninsula, where they disappear into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This region sustains a mix of forestry, industry, and tourism based on its natural resources and landscape.
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