Word: quebecers
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...whose goods and tales would change the world. Marco Polo's stories became the dreams of Christopher Columbus. The quest for a passage to Cathay, the medieval name for northern China, would propel countless explorers through serendipitous discoveries in America. (In 1634, for example, the Frenchman Jean Nicolet left Quebec in search of China and discovered Green Bay, Wis.) Meanwhile, Franciscan missionary diplomats sent by the Pope to seek an alliance with the Khan against Islam brought back a black powder to a fellow Franciscan, the Oxford scientist Roger Bacon, the first European to write about gunpowder...
Canada, host this year to more than 3,000 American students, is the most popular destination for those seeking undergraduate degrees abroad, in no small part because it's close to home. Katy Morley, 18, chose Bishop's University in southern Quebec because she wanted to leave Vermont yet remain within a two-hour drive of her family's farm. "I loved Bishop's from the first minute," she says. She appreciates her small classes, the charming Quebec scenery and the "low-key" people, whose "whole mind set is different" from that of Americans...
...universities are pleased with their choice of school and would recommend a Canadian education to others. Peter Deitz, 20, a Hastings, N.Y., resident majoring in Canadian history at McGill, allows that he is "very grateful, very content with the choice that I made." In his first two years in Quebec, he improved his French enough to work last summer for an Internet company in Paris...
...always wrestled with my identity and who I am," says Doshi, who father is from Gujarat in western India and whose mother is from Quebec, though her family is from Lebanon...
Charest, 41, has served as a member of Quebec's legislative assembly from Sherbrooke since leaving federal politics in 1998. Previously, he served as Federal Minister of Environment, Minister of Youth, and leader of the Progressive Conservative party as a representative of the same constituency...