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7 Quebec Towns with Weird Names

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Quebec is a bit of a North American oddity… The only sizeable area with a predominance of French speakers, it sits in a linguistic bubble, surrounded to the East by the über-bilingual province of New Brunswick and to the West by the Ottawa-Gatineau-Montreal area, which is also one of the world’s most multilingual zones.

But when you move deeper into rural Quebec, one thing that stands out is the often bizarre twists used to name places. Here are a few of the Quebec towns with the most unusual names.

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