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QUEBEC 



15th century, being known at iirst 

 as Chroma, Fusa, or Unca, and 

 later as the Lesser Semiminim. In 

 America and Germany it is called 

 an eighth note, in France a crook 

 or hook (croche). 



Quay. Embarkation and land- 

 ing place, formed alongside a river 

 or sea, or in a dock or harbour, 

 against which ships may berth. 

 There is no fine dividing line be- 

 tween a quay and a wharf, but the 

 former term is generally applied 

 where a long stretch of river or sea 

 shore is embanked by a masonry 

 wall for the purpose above defined, 

 or where a dock wall or masonry 

 mole or breakwater provides ship- 

 ping accommodation and facilities. 

 A short coaling wharf on a river 

 bank supported by piles would not 

 be called a quay. Quays are usually 

 equipped with appliances for the 

 loading and unloading of ships, and 

 carry railway and road traffic. 

 Their length or area is known as 

 quayage; the total lineal quayage of 

 the Port of London amounts to 29 

 m., that of Liverpool and Birken- 

 head to 37 m. See Dock ; Harbour ; 

 London, Port of. Prow. Kee. 



Queanbeyan. Town of New 

 South Wales, Australia, in Murray 

 co. It is 55 m. by rly. S.S.W. of 

 Goulburn, on the Queanbeyan 

 river. It is the rly. junction for 

 Canberra, Pop. 1,400. 



Queant. Village of France, in 

 the dept. of Pas-de-Calais. It is 

 9 m. from Bapaume (q.v. ) and 

 slightly S.E. of Bullecourt (q.v.). 

 It was the S. end of the German 

 Wotan, or switch line running N. 

 to Drocourt (q.v.), forming part of 

 the Hindenburg line (q.v. ). Strong- 

 ly fortified by the Germans, it was 

 stormed by Canadians Sept. 2, 1918, 

 on which date the British 52nd, 

 57th, and 63rd divisions entered 

 the village. See Arras, Battles of. 

 Quebec. Prov. of Canada. 

 Sometimes called by its older name 

 of Lower Canada, its area is 

 706,834 sq.m., of 

 which 690,856 

 sq. m. are land. 

 The population 

 in 1911 was 

 2,003,032. The 

 majority, more 

 than three-quar- 

 ters, are of 

 Quebec arms French descent, 

 Quebec is the capital, but Montreal 

 is much the largest city. 



Broadly speaking, Quebec con- 

 sists of two parts. The smaller 

 and more settled is the original 

 Canada, a narrow belt on either 

 side of the St. Lawrence from 

 below Quebec to just above Mont- 

 real. The larger is a vast area, 

 covering nearly all the peninsula 

 lying between Hudson Bay and the 



