Québécker

A form of Quebecer — A native or inhabitant of the province of Quebec, Canada.

Meanings

nounQuébécker (plural Québéckers)

plural Québéckers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Quebecer.

    I ended up in Québec. And I did think I could help. I did think English Québéckers were getting a bum deal.

    2006, Barry Callaghan, Raise You Five: Essays & Encounters 1964-2004, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 138
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    Gouanvic’s SF: Dix années de science-fiction québécoise (Montréal, 1988; “Autres mers, autres mondes” series) is a competent anthology of ten high-point strories. In the same year Gouanvic also published in the same series Dérives 5 (Montréal, 1988), another francophone anthology; of the five stories, which all seem to focus on the perversion of social power, those by two of the four Québéckers represented, Jean Pettigrew and Esther Rochon, are particularly fine.

    1992, David Ketterer, “International Arrival of Canadian Science Fiction”, in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 140

    Or as Ouali, 20 years old, who arrived in Canada from Algeria only 11 months before we began the workshops in Saint-Michel, describes: “Arabs, Haitians, Québéckers, and South Americans play together”.

    2018, Willem Salet, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action, Routledge

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Origin

From Québec + -er (with a second é to fit French norms; cf. Québécois).

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