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QUEBEC
Je me souviens
"I remember"
ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The Québec Legislative Building, Québec City Built between 1877 and 1886.
SPENCER WOOD
Government House, the former home of the Québec Lieutenant Governor
The former house of Quebec Lieutenant-Governors was located at the Bois-de-Coulonge park. "The property was called Spencer Wood in the mid-19th Century. It was purchased by the Quebec Government in 1870 and served as the residence of Quebec Lieutenant-Governors until 1966 when a major fire destroyed the main residence." Bois-de-Coulonge is now a beautiful park overlooking the St-Lawrence River.
The office of the Lieutenant-Gouvernor of Quebec is located in the Parliament in Old Quebec City.
Québec, comes from the Algonquin word meaning "narrow passage" or strait. It originally referred to the area of Quebec City and the narrowing of the river at Cape Diamond.
- Capital: Québec City
- Flower: Iris Versicolor or Madonna Lily
- Date of entry into Confederation: July 1, 1867 One of the four original provinces with Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
- Total Area: 1,540,681 km²
Iris Versicolor, provincial floral emblem
Granted by a Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria on May 26, 1868, the coat of arms was revised by the Québec government on December 9, 1939 in order to [TRANSLATION] “make it truer to the history and heraldic data of the province”. In modern terms, the coat of arms can be described as follows: Divided into three horizontal fields, the first bearing three fleurs-de-lis on a blue background, the second a blue-tongued, blue-clawed gold leopard on a red background, and the third, three green maple leaves, gold-veined, on a gold background, the whole surmounted by the royal crown and accompanied underneath by a silver scroll bearing the motto in blue letters.
On January 21, 1948 at 3 p.m., the fleurdelisé flag replaced the Union Jack on the tower of the Parliament Building in Québec City. Through an order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council adopted that very morning, Premier Maurice Duplessis' government had made the flag Québec's official emblem. In November 1999, the Québec National Assembly adopted the Act respecting the flag and emblems of Québec and decreed that the Québec flag is the national emblem.
ONTARIO
Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet "Loyal she began, loyal she remains"
In 1859 the city leased land here from King's College, and in 1860 a park, named after Queen Victoria, was opened by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. Queen's Park was long considered as a location for new parliament buildings and in 1879-80 their construction was authorized by the Ontario Legislature and city council, and an inconclusive design competition was held. In 1886 the commission was awarded to Richard Waite of Buffalo, one of the adjudicators. This decision generated considerable controversy among Ontario architects. The main block of the massive Romanesque Revival structure, with its towering legislative chamber, was completed in 1892 and on April 4, 1893, the first legislative session in Queen's Park was opened under Premier Sir Oliver Mowat.
Built between 1911 & 1915 for over a million dollars it was demolished in 1937, leaving a suite in
Queen's Park as the official residence.
Ontario, is from an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful lake" or "beautiful water" and
was first used for Lake Ontario.
Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic PermanetThis coat of arms was granted after confederation in 1868, with supporters and crest added in 1909. The gold maple leaves represent Ontario (in distinction from green leaves (Quebec) or red leaves (Canada)), as maples are common in this province. The cross of St. George, in the chief, represents the English heritage of many of the people in Ontario (although this is no longer as true as it was when the arms were first granted, of course), as well as being a reference to King George III, under whose rule the colony of Upper Canada was established.
The supporters, a moose and a deer, are two of the original inhabitants of the area, as is the black bear (in the crest). The motto reads UT INCEPIT FIDELIS SIC PERMANET, which is normally translated as "Loyal she began, loyal she remains", a reference to the founding of the province by the United Empire Loyalists, who fled from the United States when the Yanks decided to stop being British.
Act of Legislature assented to April 14, 1965. Queen Elizabeth ll's approval of use of the Royal Union Flag was given May 21,1965.
QUEEN'S PARK
The Ontario Legislative Building, Toronto
CHORLEY PARK
Government House, the former home of the Ontario Lieutenant Governor
Trillium grandiflorum, provincial floral emblem 
The flag closely resembles the Canadian Red Ensign. The Union jack occupies the upper quarter near the staff and the shield of arms of the province is centred in the half farthest from the staff.
