La Pitoune was a log flume ride at the Montreal's La Ronde amusement park. Its final year of operation was during the 2016 season. La Pitoune opened the...
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although modern research has shown them to be from regional French dialects: Pitoune (log, cute girl, loose girl): previously thought to come from "happy town"...
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Ronde announced the permanent closure of one of its original rides, La Pitoune. The water log ride dated back to Expo 67, and had its final season in...
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folktales. One of the oldest rides at Montreal's La Ronde amusement park, La Pitoune, uses this legend as inspiration. It is a basic sawmill log ride, but overhead...
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(poem) Jos Hébert J'ai pour toi un lac Caillou La Pierre Am'nez-en d'la pitoune Lorsque mon père (poem) Jean-du-Sud Jack Monoloy Quand vous mourrez de...
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at all Contraction of pas en tout (pas du tout) paqueté / saoul drunk pitoune babe/chick (good looking girl); or floating log Depends on the context...
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Monmarquette and Adélard Saint-Jean). June 18, 1930: Mon vieux est jaloux and La pitoune. June 27, 1930: Un petit bonhomme avec un nez pointu and Chez ma tante...
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d'Or Tibidabo Amusement Park Spain Reverchon Industries 1997 Operating La Pitoune La Ronde Canada Arrow Development 1967 Removed La Rivière Canadienne Le...
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from the east); 1.2 km (0.75 mi) westwards, up to the confluence of the Pitounes stream (coming from the north-west); 9.5 km (5.9 mi) westward, to the confluence...
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CV2, Moebius, Brèves, Art le Sabord and Nuit Blanche. Source: Ma Belle Pitoune en or, novel (1993) Le Mal mystérieux de la salamandre à quatre orteils...
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Anse-aux-Basques, 1960 Turlutte (La riviere du Gouffre), 1960 Three Seasons (La Pitoune), 1960 Soiree at St. Hilarion (En Revenant de St-Hilarion), 1960 On the...
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of the river, until the discharge of the "Lake at Foisy" and "Lake à la Pitoune"; 13.1 kilometres (8.1 mi) north through a segment of 8.0 kilometres (5...
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Bend and the '82 Knoxville World's Fair. 591 feet (180.14 m) long. La Pitoune Log Flume La Ronde 1967 2017 1,334 feet (406.60 m) long. Waterfall Flume...
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the winter of 1937-38 Veillet & Frères Limitée has made the logging of "pitounes" in Talbot sector. It built a logging camp located at about 3 km from the...
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12 feet logs, to be cut by the sawmill in "pitoune" of four feet long each. Then a slab brought the pitounes 75 feet higher to the docks of railway wagons...
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of the horseshoe lake (altitude: 454 m (1,490 ft)) and the lake of the Pitoune (altitude: 461 m (1,512 ft)); 210 m (690 ft) southwesterly to the outlet...
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kilometres (28 mi) up to its mouth, collecting water of: North side: streams of pitounes, Duvivier, Pénomect, Jean, Little River Matane and Gagnon; South side:...
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