Quebec cases crack the 200K mark
Quebec’s cumulative Covid numbers cracked the arbitrary but striking 200,000 mark on New Year’s Eve, with 62 new deaths over the last 24 hours. The Santé Québec page has more statistics including a new table listing how many vaccinations have been given out by region – 6,857 in Montreal to date.
(I may have kvetched about this before, but every time I look at that page I get annoyed again at Quebec making Montreal region #6. And no, it’s not in alphabetical order, it’s just an attempt to put Montreal in its place.)
There won’t be new numbers Friday or Saturday, as last weekend.
Clément 13:09 on 2020-12-31 Permalink
Sorry Kate, the first 10 administrative regions were created in March 1966 (of which Montreal was already #6). In March 1966, the provincial government was liberal, a “Montreal friendly” political party if there ever was one.
http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/evenements/1789.html
Kate 13:29 on 2020-12-31 Permalink
I still don’t like it! 😉
Happy New Year, Clément.
Tim F 15:17 on 2020-12-31 Permalink
Well that led me down quite the rabbit hole. I found what seems to be the original government document proposing the regions and their numbering for the first time. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3476223
I’m looking at it on my phone (not the best reading experience) but skimming through I’ve found nothing that explains the numbering. It almost looks like they tried to number them clockwise from the Gulf of St Lawrence. But I can’t explain Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean as région 02.
These numbers always remind me of French department numbering for some reason. It has that pseudo-Cartésien, revolutionary feeling to it. At least their numbering is (primarily) alphabetical.
Clément 18:14 on 2020-12-31 Permalink
Happy New Year Kate.
Keep up the great work, you’re one of my reliable connections to Montreal as I bid my time in purgatory. All the best!