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Presents A Picture Of Great: With separate committees of elected members headed by powerful chairmen and with separate departments of officials headed by powerful chief officers, a local authority presents a picture of great fragmentation. A major problem is how to coordinate the activities of these bodies and to give leadership, so that the policy of the council as a whole is coherent and continuous.
With its roots embedded in the French colonization of the early 1600's, and with its population overwhelmingly French in language and origin, Quebec presents a unique ethnic picture among the areas of North America. Precursor of all the other provinces—it became the Province of Quebec following the cession of New France to Great Britain in 1763—Quebec has preserved in its character and culture much of the atmosphere of Old France while playing a leading role in the advance of Canada in the modern world.
When travelers from other countries think of itain, they generally think first of the English itoral landscape, to live in which, as Samuel tier observed, is like "living in the heart of a iuce." When the weather is right and the ekend traffic out of the way, it still presents an omparable picture of rural decorum. |
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