Quebeckian

English

Adjective

Quebeckian (comparative more Quebeckian, superlative most Quebeckian)

1. Alternative spelling of Quebecian
   • 1883, William D[ean] Howells, “Quebec”, in Their Wedding Journey, author’s edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, page 296:

     There were some fair American costumes and faces in the crowd, but it was essentially Quebeckian.

   • 1894 March, Faith Fenton, “The Winter Carnival at Quebec”, in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, volume II, number 5, Toronto, Ont.: The Ontario Publishing Co., page 490, column 1:

     Among the many unique features of the week’s gayeties, there were a few that were distinctly Quebeckian—such as might not be seen elsewhere, even in Canada.

   • 1977 November, N. B. Bantsekin, “Quebec: A Year After Elections”, in USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology, number 11, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, page 75:

     In July 1977, P. E. Trudeau announced the formation of the federal task force on Canadian unity, which has the responsibility of finding "some kind of course halfway between Canadian federalism and Quebeckian separatism."

   • 1982, Jocelyn Reichel, “Poquito, Our Logo”, in Retirement Is for the Birds, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, →ISBN, page 46:

     With two sets of long-distance grandparents, paternal in California and my husband and me in Wisconsin, our young Quebeckian grandchildren sometimes have difficulty keeping us separated in their thinking. It was inevitable that we would become “the Grandma and Grandpa who live with Poquito.”

   • 1982, Louis Leo Snyder, Global Mini-Nationalisms: Autonomy or Independence (“Contributions in Political Science”, →ISSN, number 71, subseries “Global Perspectives in History and Politics” , volume 2), Westport, Conn.., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 189:

     The issue of federalism or separatism became the focal point of both Canadian and Quebeckian politics.

Noun

Quebeckian (plural Quebeckians)

1. Alternative spelling of Quebecian
   • 1848 January 22, “Incidents of Winter Life in Quebec”, in Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, volume IX, number 212, Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers; London: W. S. Orr, page 52, column 1:

     The Quebeckians are fond of winter excursions to the environs of their city, which they frequently make in large parties;

   • 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, “A Topographical Parallel”, in A Woman in Spite of Herself, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, pages 125–126:

     Sauntering under the trees which border the lanes of the suburban quarters, of which the Chemin de la Grande Allée and the St. Foy Road are the chief arteries—the suburb in which the Quebeckians of wealth and fashion have their garden-girt villas and emparked mansions—he fancies himself back again on the outskirts of the ornamental grounds of St. Martin’s, and peering about the picturesque cottages of the Rohais Road.

   • 1878, “Report on Foreign Correspondence”, in Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Kentucky: Seventy-Ninth Grand Annual Communication Begun and Held at Louisville, October 22, 1878, A. L. 5878, Louisville, Ky.: […] the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, page 202:

     We look to Brother Drummond, the original Quebeckian, to take the lead.

   • 1982, Louis Leo Snyder, Global Mini-Nationalisms: Autonomy or Independence (“Contributions in Political Science”, →ISSN, number 71, subseries “Global Perspectives in History and Politics”, volume 2), Westport, Conn.., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 195:

     He [Pierre Trudeau] called for peace “with my fellow Quebeckians who have been wounded in defeat.”

   • 1992, Jouke van der Zee, “What We’ve Always Wanted To Know About Other Countries’ Health Care Systems, but Were Afraid To Ask”, in Proceedings: The National Primary Care Conference: March 29-31, 1992, Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington, D.C, volume II, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, page 514:

     If they squeeze their doctors too hard, these will move to the State next door (think of the poor Quebeckians, who will have to migrate to Europe), but if the population takes health care and equity serious, their elected politicians should have the freedom to shape their own health care systems.