Its kinda weird when you look at it, Quebec city is the place in canada where most of the people speak french when the rest of canada is mostly english. How it happened? Why are they speaking french when most of the north america speak english?
Quebec was originally founded as a French colony. The land was claimed for France by Jacques Cartier in 1534, and the city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608. The city was an important fur trading center, with voyageurs exploring up the St. Lawrence river into the Great Lakes and nearby areas and trading European goods for furs. Settlement in the province of New France was restricted to French Roman Catholics in the late 1620s, and the province became a royal colony in the 1660s.
New France's geographical location was somewhat unique in North America, being generally surrounded by British colonies and also native American nations. British colonies and traders exploring and setting in the Ohio River area led to escalating tensions between the colonies, and eventually the French colonists began to build fortifications in the area. A surprise attack by a young British officer named George Washington (yes, that George Washington) on a French fort in 1754 led to open war between the British and Fernch. During the Seven Years War (known in the United States as the French and Indian war), the British captured Quebec and gained control of the province. The settlement of the war resulted in France ceding most of its North American colonies to Britain, including New France, in exchange for Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
With tensions growing between Britain and its American colonies -- caused in part by taxation to pay for the war debts Britain had incurred -- the loyalty of the French-speaking residents of the province of Quebec was crucial. To that end, the British agreed to a charter of rights in 1774 that expressly confirmed the right to practice Catholicism in the area, restored the right of the church to impose tithes, and retained French law for civil matters. This grant of rights was what would eventually lay the foundation for French becoming the official language of the province, though debates on that continued after the American Revolution and throughout the 19th century. I won't get into the 20th century and separatist movements, because my knowledge of the area is mostly based on what I know from the time period I'm interested in.