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unusual facts about Blainville-Boisbriand Armada


Montréal Junior

Montreal Junior Hockey Club – A former team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2008 until 2011, who relocated and became the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada


Blainville-Crevon

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter and sculptor, was born here.

Blainville, Quebec

In July 2010, Le Fontainebleau Golf Club hosted the Montreal Championship, a PGA Tour event.

Blainville's beaked whale

The second specimen, a complete skull sent from the Seychelles by a M. Leduc in 1839, was named Ziphius seychellensis by the English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1846; the French scientist Paul Gervais later placed this specimen in the genus Dioplodon ("two-toothed").

René Beauvais

We do know that he became a master woodcarver by 1812 and did extensive work in the church at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville which included some carpentry, woodcarving, and gilding as well as the structure housing the altar, rood-loft, cornice, and vaulting of this building.

Suzanne Duchamp

Born in Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie Region of France, she was the fourth of six children born into the artistic family of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp.


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