Today Quebec is all blue and white to celebrate St. Jean Baptiste. Why? Here’s a little story from the website of the national quebec day.

There have been 150 years, June 24, 1984, Ludger and that 60 leaders of the time endowed the French Canadians a national holiday, June 24, a national operator, St. John the Baptist, and a national society, the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal.

To mark this anniversary, the Quebec government has entrusted the National Movement of Quebec (MNQ), the mandate to organize the National Day “…. because it has expertise, having assumed for over 140 years. (René Lévesque, Prime Minister, March 1984)

Today, to commemorate this event, we invite you to browse the exhibition of posters from the last 25 National Holiday of Quebec.

Signing of the first Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Quebec and the National Movement of Quebecers, April 7, 1984.

In Montreal, you can’t miss the parade of the giants of the National Day and the concert at Parc Maisonneuve! Everywhere else in Quebec the party will be there!

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