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"It was here that New France took hold, here that the fur trade and the missionary conversion of the continent began and exploration of North America commenced in earnest. So as Quebec gets set to mark its quadricentennial today, it is as much a national celebration as a local one."

Canada's National Post notes that today is the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Quebec City.

And David Hackett Fischer in The New York Times compares founding ideas of the United States and Canada.