Quebec

===Literature and folklore===
{{Main|Quebec literature|Folklore of Quebec}}
[[File:La_Chasse-galerie_(1906).jpg|thumb|''La [[chasse-galerie]]'' (1906) by [[Henri Julien]], showing a scene from a popular Quebec folk legend.]]
Quebec's French-speaking populace has the second largest body of folktales in Canada (the first being [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Fowke|first=Edith|title=Canadian Folklore|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1988|isbn=0-19-540671-0|page=34}}</ref> When the early settlers arrived from France in the 17th century, they brought with them popular tales from their homeland, which were adapted to the local context. Many were passed on through generations by ''raconteurs'', or storytellers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Greenough|first=William P.|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924105761831|title=Canadian Folk-Life and Folk-Lore|publisher=George H. Richmond|year=1897}}</ref> Almost all of the stories native to Quebec were influenced by Christian [[dogma]] and [[superstitions]]. The [[Devil]], for instance, appears often as either a person, an animal or monster, or indirectly through Demonic acts.<ref name="Chiasson2">{{cite book|last=Chiasson|first=Père Anselme|title=Les Légendes des îles de la Madeleine|publisher=Éditions des Aboiteaux|year=1969}}</ref> Various tales and stories are told through oral tradition, such as, among many others, the legends of the ''[[Bogeyman]]'', the ''[[Chasse-galerie]]'', the ''Black Horse of Trois-Pistoles'', the ''Complainte de Cadieux'', the ''[[Marie-Josephte Corriveau|Corriveau]]'', the ''dancing devil of Saint-Ambroise'', the ''[[Édouard Beaupré|Giant Beaupré]]'', the ''monsters of the lakes [[Lake Pohenegamook|Pohénégamook]]'' and ''[[Lake Memphremagog|Memphremagog]]'', of ''[[Quebec Bridge]]'' (called the Devil's Bridge), the ''[[Rocher Percé]]'' and of ''Rose Latulipe'', for example.{{sfn|Dupont|2008}}

From New France, Quebec literature was first developed in the travel accounts of explorers. The ''Moulin à paroles'' traces the great texts that have shaped the history of Quebec. The first to write the history of Quebec, since its discovery, was the historian [[François-Xavier Garneau]]. Many [[List of Quebec writers|Quebec poets]] and prominent authors marked their era and today remain anchored in the collective imagination, like, among others, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, [[Octave Crémazie]], [[Honoré Beaugrand]], [[Émile Nelligan]], [[Lionel Groulx]], [[Gabrielle Roy]], [[Hubert Aquin]], [[Michel Tremblay]], [[Marie Laberge]], Fred Pellerin and [[Gaston Miron]]. The [[American Literary Regionalism|regional novel]] from Quebec is called ''Terroir'' novel and is a literary tradition<ref>{{cite web|title=Littérature du terroir québécois|url=http://www.litterature-quebecoise.org/terroir.htm|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727034815/http://www.litterature-quebecoise.org/terroir.htm|archivedate=July 27, 2011|accessdate=July 5, 2011|publisher=Litterature-quebecoise.org|language=fr}}</ref> specific to the province.

Popular French-language contemporary writers include [[Louis Caron]], [[Suzanne Jacob]], [[Yves Beauchemin]], and [[Gilles Archambault]]. Well-known English-language writers from Quebec include [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Mordecai Richler]], and [[Neil Bissoondath]].