Quebec

==Quebec's diaspora==
{{Main article|Quebec diaspora}}

The earliest immigrants to the [[Canadian prairies]] were [[French Canadians]] from Quebec. Many [[Franco-Albertans]], [[Fransaskois]] and [[Franco-Manitobans]] are descended from them.

From the mid-1800s to the [[Great Depression]], Quebec experienced the [[Grande Hémorragie]] ("Great Hemorrhaging"), a massive emigration of 900,000 people from Quebec to [[New England]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Bélanger|first=Claude|title=Emigration to the United States from Canada and Quebec, 1840–1940|url=http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/stats/goto-us.htm|accessdate=July 24, 2013|work=Quebec History|publisher=Marianopolis College}}</ref> French Canadians often established themselves in [[Little Canadas]] in many industrial New England centres. Of the 900,000 Québécois who emigrated, about half returned.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bélanger, Claude|date=August 23, 2000|title=Rapatriement|url=http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/events/repatr.htm|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213234956/http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/events/repatr.htm|archivedate=February 13, 2007|publisher= Marianopolis College}}</ref> Most of the descendants of those who stayed are now [[Cultural assimilation|assimilated]], though a few [[Franco-Americans]] remain, speaking [[New England French]].

Some tried to slow the Grande Hémorragie by redirecting people north, which resulted in the founding of many regions in Quebec (ex. [[Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean]], [[Val-d'Or]]) but also in [[Northeastern Ontario]]. The northeastern [[Franco-Ontarian]]s of today, who live in [[Timmins]], [[Hearst, Ontario|Hearst]], [[Moosonee]] and [[Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|Sault Sainte Marie]], among others, are the descendants of emigrants from Quebec who worked in the mines of the area.<ref>{{cite web|title=Le Nord franco-ontarien : nature, culture et hospitalité|url=https://corridorcanada.ca/resource/le-nord-franco-ontarien-nature-culture-et-chaleur-humaine/|accessdate=May 12, 2021|work=Le Corridor}}</ref>

In recent times, [[Snowbird (person)|snowbirds]] often migrate to southern [[Florida]] during the winter, resulting in the emergence of temporary "Québécois regions".