Presents a comic book-style story in which Paul, an average teenager, drops out of high school in the 1970s and eventually gets a job as a counselor at a summer camp full of misfits in Quebec.
Examines the history of the Canadian province's ethnic conflict as French-speakers have struggled to preserve their cultural, religious, and ethnic identity in an English-speaking country and how that struggle has led to the movement to make Quebec an independent country.
Text and color photos describe the land, history, economy, people, cities, festivals, recreation, and important sights of Quebec, Canada; also includes a fact list, a map, a chronology, and a list of further resources.
When a peaceful monastery in Qu?bec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the S?urete du Qu?bec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.