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===Discovery and exploration===
The name Quebec, which comes from an Algonquin word meaning "strait" or "narrowing", originally meant the narrowing of the St. Lawrence River off what is currently Quebec City. There has been variations in spelling of the province:
* Quebecq - Levasseur, 1601
* Kébec - Lescarbot, 1609
* Quebec - Champlain, 1613
[[Image:Ville_de_Québec.JPG|300px|left|thumb|Quebec City overview.]]
The first European explorer to reach Quebec was [[Jacques Cartier]], who planted a cross either in the [[Gaspé]] in 1534 or at [[Old Fort Bay]] on the [[Lower North Shore]] and sailed into the [[St. Lawrence River]] in 1535.
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