Nord-du-Québec

Nord-du-Québec

English  North of Quebec , formerly  Nouveau-Québec 

      administrative region constituting the northern half of Quebec province, Canada. The name Nouveau-Québec (“New Quebec”) once was used synonymously with Ungava for that part of the Labrador-Ungava peninsula between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea, north of the Eastmain and Churchill (Hamilton) rivers, which was, at the time, a part of the Northwest Territories. In 1912, however, when the territory was annexed by Quebec, the term Nouveau-Québec generally replaced Ungava. Following the establishment of the Quebec-Newfoundland boundary in 1927, use of the name was limited to a territory in northern Quebec province, which in 1967 became a political subdivision of the province; during the 1980s the region's name was changed to Nord-du-Québec. Governed from the city of Quebec, Nord-du-Québec is the largest but least populous of Quebec province's regions. Pop. (2006) 39,817.

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