Two sentences in and I already have a thousand questions.
Quebec is a pretty big province (with almost the whole population in the south part anyway) but also a city. I guess an American can easily picture the location of Montreal 45.5°N (30 miles north of New York/Vermont) or Quebec City 46.8°N (70 miles east of north Maine). Both are quite south of London (51.5°N) or Paris (48.9°N). (For reference, most of the US-Canadian border runs along the 49°N parallel.)