Descriptor English: | Quebec | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Quebec
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Quebeque | ||||
Descriptor French: | Québec | ||||
Tree number(s): |
Z01.107.567.176.791 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011792 | ||||
Scope note: | A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440) |
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Annotation: | a province of eastern Canada |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnology EP epidemiology |
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DeCS ID: | 12229 | ||||
Unique ID: | D011792 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
Date Established: | 1966/01/01 | ||||
Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||
Revision Date: | 1995/02/21 |
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Quebec
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Concept UI |
M0018325 |
Scope note | A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440) |
Preferred term | Quebec |
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