Exploring QUEBEC CANADA with Trevor Kjorlien
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I'm a québécois from Gatineau, and I appreciate the effort put into this video but like said in other comments, there's too much information missing for me to considered it a good summary. I really like that you brought Trevor along because a lot of Montrealers are expats and they bring a different point if view than a french québécois person but I think, especially for this video, you should have brought a third person that is a french Canadian youtuber. If you ever decide to do another video on Quebec, bring back Trevor but with a french Canadian person so they can share the two perspectives. Quebec history and tge Canada history are so intertwined that you cant really separate them, and I say that as a born french Canadian.
Historically, I would have liked you to cover the fact that Montreal was Canada's capital city for a bunch of the Canadian history and that Ottawa is a fairly recent capital and the fact that it sit so close to the Quebec border has its importance Historically.
Tourism wise - if you want to have to full Quebec experience, I would suggest a road trip that starts in Sherbrooke, goes to Montreal, Trois-Rivières , Quebec then end in the Charlevoix region. Definitely during summer. Having said that, if you visit during the winter, Quebec city and Charlevoix are a must. Québec has a huge festival called Le festival de Québec with a winter parade and lots of interesting winter activity. Charlevoix has a unique geography amongst the province of Québec that has amazing natural features.
During the winter, there's also amazing forests skatering one of the most famous is the Domaine Enchanteur or the Domaine de la forêt perdue which is 15 km long in nature not too far from Montreal.
More on geography, the largest portion of the Quebec population centers sits at the bottom of an old fresh water sea, the Champlain sea. Which makes the Saint-Laurent bassin one of the most fertile land in eastern Canada and a huge part of the reason why so many of its population lives there (aside if course the climate and the economic importance of the Saint-Laurent river)
There's of course so many other facts we could talk about but I think that a french speaking Canadian would have been able to bring to this discussion.
Again, good effort but I was left a bit disappointed.
Same!
Absolument!
I think a perspective from a French speaking Québécois would have been crucial, in part because anglo canadians learn what the anglosphere of the country wants them to know about us. I have Ontarian friends who got fed quite a bit of false and nasty stuff about our people before moving here. I don't wanna bring up the infamous '' racist québécophobe'' claim (god knows I'm fucking fed up at my fellow Quebecers crying foul at the smallest critique) but it *is* true that we were heavily discriminated against in the past. Its traces are still very much felt today, so yeah the perspective of a born French speaking quebecer vs the experience of an expat living in Montreal, or even an anglophone born in Montreal, are vastly different.
I'm a proud Montrealer, born and raised there and still living there to this day at the age of 42. I have a few things to point out from my experience or musings:
1. In my part of Montreal that is mainly English-speaking, and it is an Anglo bubble for the most part, the stop signs used to say ARRÊT STOP but now they only say STOP just like in North America outside Quebec (in contrast to most other areas of Quebec in which there's only ARRÊT). It does have to be pointed out that that area is officially bilingual, just like New Brunswick, Ottawa, and the Canadian federal government and unlike Quebec as a whole. On another point, in various indigenous communities like among the Cree of the James Bay area, the stop signs are in the appropriate indigenous language as well as in English and/or French.
2. Alaska is actually a little larger than Quebec, Alaska being 665,384 sq. miles (1,723,337 sq. km.) as opposed to Quebec being 595,391 sq. miles (1,542,056 sq. km.).
3. The highest point in Quebec outside the Torngat Mountains along the northern Quebec-Labrador boundary is Mont Jacques-Cartier in the western part of the Gaspé Peninsula, which is basically the northernmost part of southern Quebec. It stands at 1,268 m (4,160 ft) high.
4. Just as Quebec (along with the Acadian communities in places like New Brunswick) is a French "island" in the great English "sea" of Canada or really North America in general, so too Finland (along with Estonia) is a Finno-Ugric (non-Indo-European) "island" in the Scandinavian and Russian (both of these being Indo-European) "sea" that is northern and northeastern Europe.
5. Even the Anglo areas of Quebec, such as my general section within Montreal, feel very different from Canada outside Quebec, and that's certainly even more true of the French areas of Quebec. I'm not just talking about the influence of French; I'm talking even in terms of vernacular housing architecture and things like that.
6. It's even better yet, weather-wise, to visit Quebec in the late spring or early fall - cooler weather than in the dog days of summer but nowhere near as cold as in the dead of winter.
@@yodorob The city of Ottawa is not bilingual. The only language for services is English.
@@Rosiecats Fair enough, but other than on an official level for providing services, Ottawa is bilingual. It shows in stuff like street signs. The Ottawa metropolitan area, given the predominantly-French Gatineau/Quebec side as well as certain French pockets on the Ontario side like Orléans, even more so.
@@Rosiecats Ottawa, as the national capital of Canada, has been officially bilingual since December 14, 2017. It made no sense to have an unilingual English capital in a country which has two official languages on an equal footing.
☝️☝️☝️ en francais
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I remember my dad telling me, when he was a teacher discussing the English/French language issue (back in the 50's), he thought that *all* schools should implement full immersion, English are taught in French and visa versa until grade 6. That that age, language is easy to learn and you would have a fully fluent, bilingual population and then kids could decide whether to continue immersion or switch back to their native language for the upper-level courses. They thought he was crazy to promote true bilingualism.
Interesting, and common sense. I've long held that ASL should be taught to kids starting in nursery school, all the way up through High School, and commonly used. So many times you wished you didn't have to yell across a room...
Canada just really never care of French. But politicians like to pretend they do. Québec is the only province to care. We start learning English at 6 year old.
the only problem I can see with that, is that no one would be fully competent in either languages, a lot of 17yo in quebec have a hard time reading basic books, or writing 200 word essay, and english courses are not efficient at all, even if they start at 7yo, english is 100x easier to learn and use, whereas french is somewhat elitist, you have to be good enough to learn it from the start, french classes should be more about communication, and less small grammar rules
Cest pas mal coaster a partir de lile d'Orléans jusqu'à gapsé
I think that your dad was onto something. As a real trilingual
that got an education in all 3 languages
(I speak, write, read in 3 languages), I can’t emphasize enough how knowledge on languages is a huge advantage in our modernized world. In Quebec and especially in my city, Montreal, though, it’s the closest you’ll ever find in Canada for an actual bilingual population citywide. I think that 1/2 people are real bilinguals but I never met someone who wasn’t
(especially in my area).
Sadly French language is dying in Montreal...
Also about Canada.. why does the UN underestimate the population of Canada? Canada now has more than 41m people and in 2025 they will reach a milestone of 42m people!
Not only Canada though but also Australia..
In fact there are more than 27m people living in land down under.. but the UN only records it as 26.4m people..
I think when you look at the population of a country you better look it at their statistics because I knew it from the Satistique Canada and the Australian Statistic
I think the UN only records the local-born people though but it's weird that they record the US as having 341m while Canada and Australia as having 39.1m and 26.4m
If they only record the local-born then the US is supposed to be having around 339m residents on the UN's data
Its looking like Canadas population is likely to drop once the new Premier gets in. The current govt goes way too hard on immigration
@@RobertP.Trebor Why do you think so? I've read that the population of Canada would be around 70m in 2060s though.. I'm not sure if it's gonna be dropping but if it's gonna be stably growing then it's so much plausible.. Would the new prime minister expel the foregin-born people or what if it's gonna be dropping? Also the death rates in Canada would be rising in 2060s and that's why they need more migrants to refill the country's population(and also to balance the demographic).. Unlike the US.. Canada's population is ageing while the US is both spurred by natural births and overseas migration(also 80% of Australia's population growth is from overseas migration alone)
Why do you think so? I've read that the population of Canada would be around 70m in 2060s though.. I'm not sure if it's gonna be dropping but if it's gonna be stably growing then it's so much plausible.. Would the new prime minister expel the foregin-born people or what if it's gonna be dropping? Also the death rates in Canada would be rising in 2060s and that's why they need more migrants to refill the country's population(and also to balance the demographic).. Unlike the US.. Canada's population is ageing while the US is both spurred by natural births and overseas migration(also 80% of Australia's population growth is from overseas migration alone)
@@RobertP.TreborWhy do you think so? I've read that the population of Canada would be around 70m in 2060s though.. I'm not sure if it's gonna be dropping but if it's gonna be stably growing then it's so much plausible.. Would the new prime minister expel the foregin-born people or what? Also the death rates in Canada would be rising in 2060s and that's why they need more migrants to refill the country's population(and also to balance the demographic).. Unlike the US.. Canada's population is ageing while the US' population growth is both spurred by natural births and overseas migration(also 80% of Australia's population growth is from overseas migration alone)
@@marcoschlaff813 that 70M number is probably based on the most recent immigration rate which accounts for 98% of recent population growth. Like over 1 million over the past year. It's deeply unpopular with the wider Canadian population and contributes to the high cost of living and low birth rate that Canada is currently going through
Quebec is a beautiful province of Canada .. I lived there for a year in 1994and learnt little bit of French .. love Quebec from. BUFFALO New York
My wife and I went to Quebec last in
2008 for the 400th anniversary of
Samuel de Champlain there in 1608.
We stayed in Quebec City, the Loews
Concorde by the Plains of Abraham
with a revolving restaurant and the
Hotel Queen Elizabeth in Montreal
near Dorchester Square on Blvd de
Levesque, and I speak some French
which helped, though most speak
English too in Montreal City than
in Quebec City.
Being born in London, UK, in WWII,
1944, my Father served in Canada
in the war, 1940 to 1943, at Farnham,
Sherbrooke, Quebec City, and Halifax,
for Dominion Engineering.
My Uncle was there too, being from
Germany they were enemy aliens,
in UK, sent to work in Canada.
My Mother, being Swiss was not sent
away.
We came to NYC in 1949 on the Queen
Mary, now located in Long Beach, CA.
Been to Canada many times.
1967 Expo in Montreal, Expo 86 in
Vancouver, by car from NY state.
My wife and I went to the Atlantic
Provinces, New Brunswick, PEU,
and Nova Scotia in 2004 to.
A Votre Sante. Aurevoir.😊
My mom & her parents came over from the UK to New York. My mom and her mother were born in England and her father was born in Scotland.
They came about 4 years after the end of World War Two as well.
@@chrisk5651 Thanks 😊
In Canada we do not use the terms "East Coast" and "West Coast". By far the two largest provinces are Ontario and Quebec, and the southern parts of those provinces are the historic central core of the country, so those two provinces are referred to as "Central Canada". The 4 small provinces to the east are referred to as "Atlantic Canada", and the 4 provinces to the west as "Western Canada".
We do use “East Coast” and “West Coast” in Canada. Perhaps, it’s not common in the 2 central provinces of Ontario and Quebec, but the rest of us do.
@@derekhannon5502 I was born in Newfoundland, but spent most of my childhood in BC. As you mentioned, we commonly refer to “East Coast” and “West Coast” on both coasts.
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I’m a subscriber from Montréal and huge fan of the channel. I recognize the valiant effort put in to prepare this piece on Québec. Your outline was spot on. I was a bit disappointed nonetheless with some of the explanations given. For example, why is Québec predominantly French? The survival of the French language is tied to the Catholic Church and the class structure. Historically, French was the language of pesants, the working class and petty bourgeoisie. It became the language of emancipation of a people in early 1960s with the Quiet revolution: the Church of striped of its powers, secularism set in and a Québec welfare state was formed, giving rise to a Québécois entrepreneurial class (known as “Quebec inc”). It wasn’t until the early 1970s that French became Quebec’s official language
I have the most insane road trip to suggest; drive from Kagaska to Waskaganish.
It'll take 21h30 hours non stop and you'll be able to dip your toe in the Atlantic at the start (gulf) and in the arctic (Hudson's Bay) at arrival.
Would love to do that, Don't think my 97 Ford T bird would hold up
"Vive le Québec" ❤❤❤
Always love when anglophones pronounce it Kay-Bec (properly) instead of Qweh-Bec (anglicized). Love the content 🖤
I thought it was properly pronounced Keh-beck? Not Keh as in Kay but.. how the Ea in Feather is pronounced. Kebeck. And the Quebecois as Kebekwah
Sorry in 1995 the difference was 0.32% at the referendum. In the fifties, in Quebec city (99% french speaking at that time) I knew a man working at the Anglo-Canadian pulp and paper Company that applied on a foreman job . He was the most experienced man in his department and respected by fellow workers. He was denied the job because he wasn't speaking english. That's one reason why we are defending french and we have a law making french the language at work. Nobody can ask you to work in english.
I had just turned 18 years of age (legal voting age in Canada) when the referendum went down in 1995. Living in Gatineau we didn't want to separate since Ottawa was so close to us and many of its residents actually worked in Ottawa but being a French speaking Quebecois I understood where they were coming from and yes we most definitely think of ourselves as a unique culture within Canada. I would even argue that we believe we have more in common with the French (from France) than English speaking Canadians.
I've visited both Montreal and Quebec City. I preferred Old Quebec City because it is walkable on foot and is compact. Beautiful architecture and a wealth of unique shops and restaurants. Montreal is much heavier in traffic and can be a bit overwhelming because of the density of people and the large size of the city. My inspiration for visiting Quebec City was a friend who was a travel agent. When I asked her what was the most beautiful place that she's visited in North America... and she said Quebec City. So I visited in 2015, and it was amazing.
In Québec city, in the lower part we ha buildings that were build in the 17th century. In Winter we have the "Carnaval de Québec" since 1954. I would suggest that fall season is gorgeous tree leaves are changing color it's incredible.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Trevor a couple times since I have been living in Montreal and he is genuinely so wholesome. What he does, he does because he loves it and truly cares about educations others that want to learn more! I think Trevor is a great ambassador of Montreal!!! Merci Geoff and Trevor!
Northern Québec is known for hydro electric dams and mining. Mostly around James Bay.
I get it, in Australia we often called it social studies. Recently my children told me about being taught the same thing for 5 years.
There are many things I know now that should have been taught in the curriculum in the 80's.
I really enjoyed this episode! It’s interesting to hear from a Canadian, as the fine details and nuances are often missed, and the typical clichés are regurgitated. Not all of us live around the border, nor are we a frozen tundra state…just ask the Inuit and others living in northern Quebec, Labrador, Yukon, Nunavut, and the N.W.T.
It’s true French is the official language in Quebec, but many of my family living in New Brunswick remind visitors that both English and French are official languages in the province.
I hope ALL Canadians take the opportunity to visit all the beautiful provinces in our glorious country. Sure, it is expansive, but that means we are blessed with multiple diverse cultures, languages, food. One cannot forget the exquisite landscapes, three bountiful oceans teaming with life, and our land supports wildlife that are diverse and plentiful…all of which makes being Canadian a special privilege…as so many emigrants and tourists remind us.
Thank you again, for this unique episode. I am certain you will find willing participants from all the other provinces and territories to join you in future episodes. It would be fascinating to hear perspectives from locals of other countries, as there is nothing like hearing from individuals who live in said place of origin.
Everyone have an wonderful summer!
Cheers!🇨🇦
I visited Old Quebec a few times and the old port in Montreal. It’s very different, I personally prefer old Quebec but that’s just me. I’m going this weekend to old quebec to the renaissance fair, I use to go a lot as a kid and still always love going
La voie maritime du Saint-Laurent a marqué le début du déclin de Montréal comme métropole économique du Canada, au profit de Toronto, en 1959.
L'ïle Notre-Dame au milieu du Saint-Laurent est de conception humaine sur laquelle une partie de l'Expo 67 s'est déroulée. Aujourd'hui, elle abrite le circuit Gilles Villeneuve du Grand Prix du Canada.
Le bouclier canadien englobe 90 % du territoire québécois, dont la formation remonte à plus de trois milliards d'années.
La construction de la voie Maritime du St-Laurent a accéléré le déclin économique. L'importance de Montréal a commencé à décroitre dès les années 20 et 30 voire avant. La structure économique de Montréal ne s'est pas ajustée aux déplacements des marchés vers l'Ouest. Les finances étant principalement gérées par les Anglosaxons qui avaient plus d'affinités avec les Américains.
@@jacquesnadon1865Je serais plutôt de l’avis que l’avènement des deux guerres mondiale nous ont épargné au Québec et dans les maritimes d’un déclin radical qui c’est fait de beaucoup plus sentir dans les années 50. La voie maritime est de beaucoup la plus grande raison pour le déclin de Montréal en particulier autre que les raisons politiques.
Haha, another confirmation that Montreal is indeed the soul searching capital of the world. Every year, thousands upon thousands of people in their early 20s feel a need to get out, to have new experiences and find themselves... and they all move to Montreal. Beautiful, culturally diverse and festive, chaotic and fairly affordable for what it is, with a gigantic student population. You can kind of be whatever you want to be here... you can step outside your boundaries and not feel alienated. Regardless of what you do, someone is doing something crazier around you.
I am lucky to be in the Ottawa area. So a couple hours from Montreal. I go there 2 or 3 times per year for whatever reason.
Quebec city is very nice and a must to visit in NA. For sure the Citadel portion of Quebec you can visit 2 or 3 days, but there is so much other stuff to do in the area - Ile D'Orléans, Chutes Montmorency... there is enough in the area to spend a week there. For sure if you are a skier, Winter is the best time to visit Quebec. There are several very good downhill skiing options, some beautiful cottages to rent, snow shoeing, dog sledding...
For sure Montreal is the most international city in Quebec which is much more vibrant.
Great cast! Can't wait until you make one on Ontario!
The biggest cities in Québec are: Montréal, Québec, Laval, Gatineau and Longueuil.
Mont-Royal is part of the Monteregian mountains, which are a series of magma intrusions in the laurentian plains. The magma solidified into igneous rock and was later uncovered by erosion.
Forgot to tell you that my family is established in Québec city since 1634 and of course I speak french. Best regards from "la Ville de Québec." 😁😄😃🙂🙃😉😊It was my first visit on your site.
Nothing against your guest but certainly not enough knowledgeable regarding anything Québec related.
Montreal is a great city to visit, but the best city to visit is Quebec city because it has a feeling of Europe.
According to the Institut de la statistique du Québec, the province received some 56.9 million tourists and day trippers in 2022, barely out of the Covid 19 epidemic. Tourism revenues for this year amounted to 14.5 billion CAD. The province has 23,469 businesses in sectors associated with tourism.
Quebec also has the archipelago, les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (pop. ca. 12-13,000), which is smack dab in the middle of Atlantic Canada above PEI and Cape Breton Island. It belongs to the Atlantic Time Zone and the culture is Acadian and not Quebecois, which is more in line with the French-speaking communities of the Maritimes.
My dear friend is "aux îles" right now in this moment.. The Acadien/Québécois mixture there is a real thing. And a real cool thing.
The CSA's location probably has to do with all the aerospace companies in Montreal, quite a lot of materials research, airplane parts and avionics for CF-18s, that kind of thing.
Quebec has both fresh water and salt water ports. Between Montreal and Quebec City, the water turns from fresh water from the Great Lakes to salt water into the Gulf of St Lawrence. It's a very big place.
For accuracy's sake, there actually were two (2) Referendums, May 1980, Oct. 1995. Having being actively involved in both,
the justifications had commonalities as well as different motivations pertaining to Constitutional clauses.
Ergo: The recognition of Quebec's population as a Nation within a greater Nation
Geoff,
Love your videos and podcasts and am a longtime subscriber. While I have never been to Quebec, I knew all of the information and facts that your guest did not. It is amazing to me that while he lives in Quebec, he knows virtually nothing about 98% of its territory, geology, history or culture. He seems like a very nice and decent person, but basically lives in Montreal and goes to the coffee shops. You need to select your guests more diligently.
The name Québec comes from an indigenous word meaning "where the water narrows." Québec City isn't a coastal town per se, but it certainly can be said to be at the point where the coast meets the hinterland.
I'm more astounded by the fact he didn't know Montréal was and island, that the Amazon is the largest river by drainage, and that Chicago and the entire Great Lakes are connected to the St Lawrence seaway.
Also, René-Levasseur Island is considered to be the second largest island in the world located in a lake, in terms of area (the largest is Manitoulin Island)
And that you can do ocean shipping all the way to Duluth, MN, which is much further inland than even Chicago.
I love the St Lawrence seaway. We loved to watch the ships go by in the canals, the ships would blow their horns for us!
Really enjoy these deep dives from people who live there
Mount Royal is the deep extension of a vastly eroded ancient volcanic complex, which was probably active about 125 million years ago.
Mount -Royal is a magmatic intrusion, lava never quite pierced through (so not a volcano).
The metamorphic rock was harder/denser than surrounding formations, explaining the three peaks that subsist and
make-up the present day ''mountain''. The original maps of early French explorers had Latin nomenclature, thus as a
a cross was raised at its peak, to mark the claiming for the French King (Mont Real), original name for the city was Ville Marie
city of Mary.
You are doing things right and well, and I had a lot of fun learning with this video. It's the first Around the World episode I've seen, and this is definitely going to become one of my go-to podcasts when I have the time and inclination for a long video. Keep making these, please! Your typical content is great, but other channels do similar things. A geography interview podcast is, to my knowledge, more unique.
If you're looking for ideas, and assuming she's interested, Natasha from the Natasha's Adventures YT channel could be a good choice of interviewee for an episode on Russia. The mission statement for her channel is basically to bridge the gap between Russia and the West, and her videos revolve heavily around Russian politics and culture and things like that, along with travel vlogs. She's strongly anti-Putin and lives in Georgia now for that reason. She has a pretty sizable viewer base, too, so that might send some traffic your way.
I think the differences in tourism between Montreal and Quebec City are the following:
1. Easier to get to Montreal from the States, whether by car or plane. Meaning it takes less time to get there since the US border is much closer.
2. Montreal is very bilingual, where I believe less people speak English in Quebec City. It's much easier to not need to speak French in Montreal than it is in Quebec City.
3. As Trevor mentioned, there is more to do in Montreal so you can spend a few days there.
The 1837-8 Rebellion, began as a reaction to socio-economic disparities as well as legislative inadequacies stemming from lack of control over
resource (taxes) allocation amongst others, even Upper Canada had some play in this forum (1838). I resulted in a military defeat but, ultimately
it provided an expansion of political/legislative powers to both Upper/Lower Canada and, a redress of certain grievances held by the French majority
in Quebec...
My ancestors were among the original settlers in “New France” or Quebec; particularly in Quebec City. Pierre Noel Levasseur was the artist/woodcarver for the interior of the Ursulines Chapel in the Old City. He did other sculptures in other Churches and Cathedrals, as well. We always recommend a visit to QC on June 24 or Patriots Day. It’s one heck of a party. While I am partial to QC, I love Montreal! I was in a restaurant in Montreal and I showed the waiter a bumper sticker I purchased and it read “Je t’aime Quebec!” I asked him if this was incorrect as you can only say this to a person. He said it is correct if you truly love Quebec. Ok. Je t’aime Quebec!!!!!!
I love Quebec from Ontario. Pretty wild how many millions of Quebecers can trace their roots back to those pre-British settlers
The Canadian sheild is a geologic shield rock formation, an emmense region of Precambrian metamorphic rock that forms parts of the North American continent.
Hi guys! A LOT of things wrong but still a good effort. Love to have you with us Trevor, even if your knowledge about Quebec is very limited 😜
My favorite thing in Toronto was Medieval times but overall Quebec or the west of Canada is the way to go .
If you’re looking for someone to talk about Alberta (as you mention in the opening), I’d perhaps suggest Craig Baird, and his podcast is Canadian History Ehx. He’d be a good guest and is very active on the socials 👍
I understand why your list is the way it is, but actually the top 5 populated cities in Quebec are Montréal, Québec City, Laval, Gatineau and Longueuil. Laval and Longueuil are suburbs of Montréal.
Anticosti island is 17 times bigger than Montreal island.
The water in the st lawrence river immediately east of Québec city, is brackish and contains some saline content so i will comfortably say this qualifies it as an atlantic province as well as an "east coast" province as it is immediately north of all the usa east coast states which are considered "eastern "
Anyone who thinks that we could visit Québec city in but two days clearly has not even got a superficial overview of the very surface of that city. If one doesn't feel to spend more than 2 days there, better to not even go and stick all the time to Montréal.
The most famous cartographer at the time wrote Monte real on a map (for mont royal), thus the name.
The founding president Dr Larkin Kerwin chose St-Hubert to be the home of the Canadian Space Agency because he wanted to ensure that Quebec always be a part of the CSA. Look up Kerwin, he had a fascinating career.
The Amazon river was just right behind him in the map!
Great video! But the third city in Quebec is Laval! With 400 000+ people
@@anthony-vincentragusa2802 That's just in terms of the municipality or city proper. But Laval is part of the Montreal metropolitan area.
@yodorob yeah but he does make a distinction between metro area and city proper. Thus laval would make it to the top 5 as its own city. same goes to Gatineau, where I am from, even tho we are part of the Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area, we are our own city with a unique culture even amongst the metropolitan area.
Reaction dynamics, Canada's most promising rocket company is based just outside of Montreal!
Shipping!!! Hell the St.Lawrence Seaway is a huge fixture in Montreal.
A shield (as in the Canadian Shield) is a stable base of rock, it has nothing to do with the form or shape of it. There are many in the world, some smaller than others (like the Scandinavian Shield or the Australian Shield). The Canadian Shield is quite large, one of the larger ones.
You should have gotten a RUclipsr from QC like Geneviève Breton or Audrey Daigneault. Someone who could give you more insight into the culture. This guy really sounds like an import.
There is so much wrong with this.
First) That you brought on an Anglo from Alberta, to speak on behalf of Quebec! Although 93 percent of Quebec speaks French, 51 percent also speak English. You couldn't find an actual Quebecer who grew up there?
It is like you asked a Texan expat living in Puerto Vallarta to describe the Mexican culture and history.
Second) You claim to be a geography channel. Your complete lack of understanding about watersheds was amazing.
You claimed that the Great lakes mostly flowed through the St Laurence!
But said there were other rivers that also drained it to other places! Other than seasonal floods, and landslides that overflow the hight of land, or man made canals, like the Eire cannal, there are no other rivers that drain the Great lakes watershed. Even these exeptions are so small as to be sooo many orders of magnitude irrelevant.
You talk about the Amazon River without any concept of watershed as well. You mention some dispute about it's source, as if which country it starts in is at all relevant. It's like asking which leaf on a giant oak tree is the one that feeds the oak all the energy from the sun. Baffling lack of geography.
The Canadian Shield is home to the second largest boreal forest in the world. It's not just rock. As well as about 400,000 lakes containing 2/5ths of all the fresh water in the world. But ya rock.
The history of New France, do more research, look up the history of Louisiana, Acadia, understand the history of exploration of the French in the interior of the continent, long before your great Lewis and Clark, who couldn't have even made the journey without the French that came before them, and the relationship the French created with the indigenous peoples.
Quebec remains a nation and has status as a nation within Canada. Yes it is complicated,
But this podcast was really bad.
Sorry.
History and Geography are totaly seperated in Québec province schools ;)
You guys forgot to mention Anticosti island
49:13 is the Canadian Shield the remnants of an asteroid event? Whenever I look at the Hudson Bay…looks too perfect of a circle…
Couldn't he get a guest who knows Quebec? Sorry Trevor.
Le bouclier Canadien!!! 😂I think that "shield" is a geological term.. I could be wrong though..
VIVE LE QUÉBEC LIBRE!
Je descends des premiers colons canadiens-français de la vallée du Saguenay, j'ai grandi à Pointe Claire Québec QC j'ai acheté ma première maison à Valois. Je suis allé au Collège Vanier et à l'Université Concordia. J'ai rejoint la Marine canadienne en 1977 et j'ai été affecté en Colombie-Britannique, où je vis maintenant. I still have lots of friends there haven't been back in many years great place to grow up I miss Montreal a lot and I still listen to the news from Montreal daily. thanks for this!
Bonjour, j'ai Allee a Lac St. Jean en
1959 avec Mon Pere et Ma Mere avec
Notre auto et la parque laurentian.
Aurevoir, A Votre Sante.😊
Hi! I’m an Edmontonian who moved to Montreal as well.
I prefer Montreal.
Mount Royal is a volcanic intrusion.
Marconi a transmis son signal TSF vers l'Europe de Signal Hill à Saint-John's, Terre-Neuve, en 1901 et non pas de Percé. Trevor n'est pas beaucoup au courant de l'histoire et de la réalité de la province qu'il habite.
Il a surement visité le Phare de Pointe-à-la-Renommée en chemin vers Percé...
En 1904, la Marconi wireless company of Canada y a installé leur système, et le site constitue la première station de radiotélégraphie maritime de télégraphie sans fil du Canada.
C'est un arrêt touristique important au nord de la Gaspésie.
@@danicad.3278 Merci pour l'information, à mon tour d'en apprendre sur la Gaspésie.
One suggestion I’d make is you may want to split up your long form podcast into multiple videos. Because this is a relatively new venture for you, your views for this are significantly lower than your usual content. Additionally if the watch time is lower (ie people clicking away early), it can really impact how much your channel is suggested to potential new viewers.
Historically, one central of the many of the gripes leading to the American Colonies rebelling, actually can be traced to the Treaty of Paris that ceded
New-France to the Brits. It granted the former French colonists, amongst rights those of preserving their language and religion, as well as great
swathes of land up to and West of the Mississippi to them as well as to the Indigenous people who were allied to the Brits during the 7 year War
(Fr. & Indian), which in effect thwarted the aspirations of Brit. Colonists toward Westward expansionism. In wanting to diminish the likelihood of a
persistent rebellious population, and preserving the trade routes (for the fur trade, etc.) they seeded their own downfall by miscalculating the fervor
of the residents of their 13 Colonies desire for expansion beyond the yoke of control/taxation .
Trevor Kjorlien doesn’t sound very French Canadian
Quebec is define as eastern province of Canada, look in any atlas, dictionnary, wiki, official document of Canada gov.
Quebec is East Coast Canadian kind of how Pennsylvania is East Coast American - not exactly on the east coast itself but not far away either. Although it does have to be said that Pennsylvania is identified as a state in the Northeast (colloquially called "East Coast", notwithstanding the east coasts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas) much more than Quebec is as a province on the "East Coast" (Maritimes plus Newfoundland) despite Gaspé, the Lower North Shore (Sept Iles to Blanc Sablon), etc. being right near the Atlantic Provinces.
Laval is #3 in population Gatineau #4
you have salt water up to Québec city
French is the official language of the Province of Quebec since july 30th 1974 under the liberal government of Robert Bourassa a pro federalist prime minister.
All FEDERAL signs have to be bilingual, but provincial signs are a different story
Quebecoise: why is this podcast not in f$ck!ng FRENCH?!
Disappointing, Your Quebec insider seem to know little about his adopted provence, had not heard of the Saint Lawrence Seaway? You had to lead him to some extent, (biggest cities their ranking for example). Although nice to know that Montreal is actually an island. And Gaspe, heard good things. Overall however did not feel I got much out of it. From.Geo peep x of N.W. Ontario.
Do it in french now
Although Trevor Kjorlien is a very nice person, his choice as an interlocutor to talk about Quebec as an Albertan is not judicious, knowing that Albertans are champions of Quebec bashing in the country. His knowledge of the province and Quebecers is rather superficial and limited.
Is Quebec latin America? (French is a latin language)
It must be!
WHAT?! It’s a province in CANADA! French is a Romance language.
@@ice9594
"Romance languages" is an exonym used in English.
These languages are actually called "Latin languages" in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
yes they are anything but Canadian! They live here and use this country but thats about it!
@@ice9594
1. Latin America refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages
2. + the latin culture and latin empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
Being located in the Americas and having latin roots are the prime common denominators.
It could theoretically encompass Quebec.
☝️☝️☝️ en francais
Québec, Canada is a misconception. Québec cannot be a part nor a province of Canada, because Canada, the REAL and authentic historical Canada, is essentially entirely contained within the borders of so-called province of Québec. The falsely labelled ''Canada'' you see today on world maps is really the Dominion or the sum of all British colonial territories in North America, which was eventually renamed ''Canada'', for political motives too complex to expose here, but the fact that this error, or lie, has been repeated and spread for several decades doesn't make it any less misleading and false.
..okay man. I’m québecouis, and like it really isn’t that big of a deal.
@@FishLeFish You see it as you want, that is your freedom. We live in a world of lies and some people live their happy and naive cqndid existencies despite being surrounded by ugly atrocious realities.
Geoff, I love your programs, but next time you get someone from Canada, can you get someone who actually knows something about Canada? You’re an American and you know more about Quebec than your guest. He seems very personable and pleasant, but not exactly a geographer.
Objectively, Trevor is a sympathetic lad but, he is, by his own admission, woefully limited in his understanding of socio-cultural realities
that are the underpinnings of Quebec's current political reality. For what it is worth, this seems like a fundamental flaw in your examination
of Quebec from a ''geopolitical'' perspective, lacking a native Québécois with a modicum of academically sound historical and cultural knowledge,
it is sort of a glaring ''ooops!''. Appreciate the effort, however the aforementioned is kind of insurmountable!
Nah that's bs cause WV is an east coast state.
So Nevada is a west coast state, Idaho too.
Québec City is also insanely expensive to visit, because it is so beautiful. Montreal is no more visually interesting than Toronto, and less welcoming. But, I’m originally from Victoria so have a preference for the west coast.
Les Quebecois are VERY French & many of them look down on those who speak English. I know…I’ve been there. They’ve tried to secede twice & failed.
If your country was occupied by a foreign power, if you have any dignity you would not accept annexation and, if it happened, you would always try to get back your country.
That is our situation. I respect everyone and I expect everyone to respect us. Don't make such a fuss!
@@PatrioteQuebecois I’m not making a fuss, just stating facts. BTW I’m 1/2 French Canadian. My mother is from outside Ottawa, capital city of your oppressors. I have relatives in Quebec.
@@ice9594 hahaha you state your opinion.
@@ice9594 I don't give a fuck about your origins. I care about whether people are with us in this fight for freedom or against us. Everyone who is with us is my brother, no matter where he comes from.
At the end of the day the slogan of the English is still in old French !
I appreciate very much your effort to make videos which are interesting and valid. I feel I have to mention that if you only think about the language yes Quebec might be better off alone. However, when you think about the cost of an army, printing your own money, healthcare and many other factors you start to think that maybe it is better if we try to work together French and English. And despite the minority of people that manage to get some rules changed to diminish the English population, most Quebecers realize the importance of both Fench and English.