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    Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and de Maisonneuve), clerics (de Laval, de Brébeuf, Marquette and Olier), military figures (de Frontenac, Wolfe, de Montcalm...
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    refers more to area around the Séminaire de Québec, the original site of Laval University. Samuel de Champlain chose the Upper Town as the site for Fort...
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    accompanied his cousin-in-law, Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, to Acadia, along with Samuel de Champlain. He lived at Port Royal (now Annapolis...
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    Cheer (French: L'Ordre de Bon Temps) was originally a French Colonial order founded in 1606 by suggestion of Samuel de Champlain. A contemporary order awarded...
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    for the island was l'ille de Vilmenon, noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
    became a colonial trading post. In 1603, Samuel de Champlain travelled to the Saint Lawrence River and, on Pointe Saint-Mathieu, established a defence...
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    Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement...
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    Jacques Cartier Bridge (category Roads with a reversible lane)
    making it the third busiest bridge in Canada, the first being Samuel-de-Champlain Bridge, just a few kilometres (miles) upstream. The second busiest bridge...
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    April 2013. Samuel de Champlain, Les Fondations de l'Acadie et de Québec. 1604-1611, Québec: Septentrion, 2008 Eric Thierry, La France de Henri IV en...
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    wall. Samuel de Champlain's statue, as well as the History and Poetry allegorical statues are not shown here. In addition to that, several monuments to famous...
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    Alfred Laliberté (category Academic staff of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal)
    Alfred Laliberté's Fermière Monument La Fermière at Marché Maisonneuve, d'Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Alfred Laliberté's Samuel Champlain, 8th arrondissement of...
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  • founded by Samuel de Champlain. 1611 – Samuel de Champlain, in the company of a young Huron, whom he had taken to and brought back from France on a previous...
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    (formerly Parc des Îles). It was named in 1611 by Samuel de Champlain in honour of his wife, Hélène de Champlain, née Boullé. The island belonged to the Le Moyne...
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    a land near St. Lawrence River in 1534; but France paid little attention to the colony for 60 years. Not until King Henry IV sent Samuel de Champlain...
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    al., Le Devoir, témoin de la vie politique québécoise. Une exposition sur les 100 ans du Devoir à découvrir à la Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale...
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    was discovered by French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1611, who named it in honour of his wife, Hélène de Champlain, née Boullé. It also bears the name...
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    Montreal was declared a historic district by the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec. In 1605, Samuel de Champlain established a fur-trading post...
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  • The colony - with Samuel de Champlain still as Governor - was continuing to experience a lack of immigration. Giffard's grant of a league of land along...
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    is located east of de Montarville boul., between the streets Samuel de Champlain and Jacques-Cartier. The Faubourg Sainte-Anne was a neighbourhood located...
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    Canadian National Vimy Memorial (category Monuments and memorials in the Pas-de-Calais)
    Inauguration du monument à la Division marocaine élevé à la cote 140, plateau de Vimy, route de Neuville-Saint-Vaast à Givenchy-en-Gohelle (Pas de Calais), le...
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    "Historique d'une forme urbaine centrale: l'évolution de la Place du Marché à Shawinigan" (PDF). Université de Montréal. Archived (PDF) from the original on September...
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    Saint-Lawrence River, Samuel de Champlain recommended establishing a permanent settlement in the area. The settlement grew into a village, officially formed...
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    built in 1802 by Seigneur Joseph Chavigny de la Chevrotière. The name Grondines was named by Samuel de Champlain himself in 1674. "Grondines" is from the...
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    Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse, a National historic site of Canada, was built in 1829-1830 on a point that ancient geographers, since Samuel de Champlain (1567-1655) himself...
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  • List of bridges in Canada (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    "Papineau-Leblanc Bridge". "Samuel De Champlain Bridge". "Georgina Island Bridge". "Nackawic Bridge". "Hawkshaw Bridge". "Champlain Bridge". "Pitt River Bridge"...
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    Montreal (redirect from Ville de Montréal)
    present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands. On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary...
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    French interest. In 1608, Samuel de Champlain established France's first colonial settlement in New France, the Habitation de Québec (now Quebec City)...
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    a period of Calvinism following the Reformation was suppressed when Anglicanism was imposed following the Stuart Restoration. Samuel de Champlain left...
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    Zacharie Cloutier (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from April 2022)
    Henry II of Bourbon. Included amongst the laborers hired to assist Samuel de Champlain in "inhabiting, clearing, cultivating and planting" New France were...
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    went into service in 1809. The Vermont ran in modern Canada, along Lake Champlain and the Riviere Richelieu to Dorchester (modern day Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu...
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