THREE QUEBECS
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meeting-place for the second time of President Roosevelt and Mr is a name that has lately been on all men's lips, though not all men pronounce it in the same way 5 states, an English exchange. To English-speaking people the pronunciation is Kweebeck but to the French it is. KayBEGK. The name is Frencli. It was transferred to Canada by early French settlers from Quebec in Brittany, with many of those place names recent battles have made us familiar. There is, a thir-i Quebec; a north Durham four miles from Lanchester. Authorities outsiide the village do not agree as to its spelling. Some write it. Quebeck, which gives a seemingly French name as English a look as that of beautifully-named Starbeck, adjoining Harrogate. That one letter would make, a vast difference in meaning. Bee is. French for nose 4 beak, even cape if used in geography; beck is good' English for brook. Be that as it. may,, we know that the Quebec of the recent conferences is the capital city of a Canadian province twice the size of the United Kingdom.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 40, 16 January 1945, Page 5
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186THREE QUEBECS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 40, 16 January 1945, Page 5
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