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    Pointe-au-Père (French pronunciation: [pwɛ̃t o pɛʁ]) is a district (secteur) of the city of Rimouski, Quebec, which is located in the central part of the...
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    The 3rd Pointe-Au-Père Lighthouse was built in 1909 in the city of Pointe-au-Père, near Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. This city was well known in naval circles...
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    take on harbour pilots; Pointe-au-Père also provided a hydrographic station and a quarantine post. On 29 May 1914 the Pointe-au-Père Marconi station received...
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    The Pointe-au-Père National Wildlife Area is one of eight National Wildlife Areas of Canada located in Quebec. This small 23-hectare area protects a spartina...
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    maritime de la Pointe-au-Père (French pronunciation: [sit istɔʁik maʁitim də la pwɛ̃t o pɛʁ]) is a maritime museum located in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, that...
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  • Jean-Yves Roy (category Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec)
    Bloc's Fisheries and Oceans critic. He was a city councillor in Pointe-au-Père, Quebec in 1981, and he was mayor from 1982 to 1986. Roy resigned from the...
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    RMS Empress of Ireland (category Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père)
    maritime de la Pointe-au-Père (2007) Les trésors de l'Empress of Ireland. Rimouski, Québec : Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père. ISBN 978-2980452727...
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    of Archaeology and History in Pointe-à-Callière, displaying artifacts, paintings and other remains from the past of Quebec. Notable schools include the...
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    2 November: The Parish of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pointe-au-Père became the Municipality of Pointe-au-Père. 3 December: The Township of Dorion became the...
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    the St. Lawrence River as the Père Nouvel, inaugurating a popular route between Baie-Comeau and Pointe-au-Père, Quebec. In 1967, she was sold to BC Ferries...
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    Rimouski (redirect from Rimouski, Quebec)
    historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père, which features an exhibit on the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster and the Pointe-au-Père lighthouse. The museum's...
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    historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père for use as a museum vessel, and was towed from Halifax to Pointe-au-Père, Quebec in July 2008. In July 2011...
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    near Green Bay, where he died between late 1701 and October 1702. Pointe-au-Père, Quebec (English: Father Point) is named after Henri Nouvel, who celebrated...
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  • Ireland when the ship tragically sank in the St. Lawrence river, near Pointe-au-Père, Quebec, after a collision with a Norwegian collier in a fog. He did not...
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    Québec, Vanier & Loretteville, and the Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges. Part of the City, including the former municipalities of Pointe-au-Père...
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    Éric Forest (category Canadian senators from Quebec)
    team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Forest was first elected to office, at the age of 27, as a councillor in Pointe-au-Père, Quebec, becoming...
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    Canadian history. Empress of Ireland was heading down the channel near Pointe-au-Père, Quebec in heavy fog. At 02:00 Storstad crashed into the side of the CP...
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    HMCS Onondaga (category Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père)
    submarine were made and cancelled before the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père in Rimouski purchased the boat for preservation as a museum vessel....
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  • town of Le Gardeur. City of Rimouski: former city of Rimouski; city of Pointe-au-Père; municipality of Mont-Lebel; village of Rimouski-Est; parishes of Sainte-Blandine...
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    1914 she again ran aground, this time in the St Lawrence River off Pointe-au-Père, Quebec, the site of the disasterous sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland...
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    divers, two Marconi wireless operators at Pointe-au-Père, two naval architects, the harbour master at Quebec, and crew and officers of several other ships...
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    d'aide à la navigation de Pointe-au-Père et son phare de béton armé : centenaire d'une construction audacieuse, 1909-2009. Québec: Parcs Canada. pp. 54–55...
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  • CFER-DT (category 1978 establishments in Quebec)
    Sainte-Anne/Route 132 (near the shoreline of the Saint Lawrence River) in Pointe-au-Père, and its transmitter is located in Saint-Donat. The station also operates...
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    de Caleb, Blanche, Au nom du père et du fils, Marguerite Volant, Nos Étés or Musée Éden, among others. In terms of folklore, Quebec's French-speaking populace...
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    gallons of saltwater were brought in from as far away as Rimouski (Pointe-au-Père). In 1959, after the completion of reception areas and a restaurant...
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  • Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice (category Religion in Quebec)
    industrial park in the area known as Pointe-Saint-Charles, named after Charles le Moyne. A large part of Pointe-Saint-Charles was occupied by the Sulpicians'...
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  • through Rimouski, in the area of Pointe-au-Père. It crosses from east to west the National Wildlife Pointe-au-Père MRC Rimouski-Neigette, Bas-Saint-Laurent...
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    1894 Haut-fond Prince Lighthouse, offshore Tadoussac, built in 1964 Pointe-au-Père lighthouse, in use from 1908 to 1975 Cap-des-Rosiers, the tallest lighthouse...
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    Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, and the popular Quebec comedy Father and Guns (De père en flic). In 2009, she played Bethany in the romance action...
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    Rodolphe Pagé, pionnier de l'aviation au Québec, pilote de brousse et pilote commercial, père de l'aviation au Saguenay (in French), Centre éducatif et...
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