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unusual facts about Champlain-St. Bernard de Lacolle Border Crossing



Batiscan River

# Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan bridge, located at the height of the village (in front of the church), built at about 2.5 km upstream from the Highway 40 bridge, connecting Church Street (north shore) and the road of the village of Champlain (south shore).

Blue Ensign

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established Canadian yacht clubs, such as, the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, Champlain Yacht Club, Montreal Yacht Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Royal Kennebaccasis Yacht Club, Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, and Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Champlain Bridge, Montreal

On September 20, 2007, a major French-language Montreal daily, Le Journal de Montréal, published a story about federal government plans to build a new 10-lane span next to Champlain Bridge, rather than face the increasing maintenance cost of the aging structure.

Champlain Place

Champlain Place is also known for the wide variety of Health & Beauty stores and services including The Body Shop, Yves Rocher, Fruits & Passion, Glamour Secrets, GNC - General Nutrition Centre, Sephora and Aldo Accessories.

Champlain River

Champlain river flows from north to south to empty in the St. Lawrence river at Champlain village.

Champlain River is flowing almost at the boundary between the manors of Batiscan and Champlain.

This name, Champlain, was then given to the lordship (1664), the catholic parish (1665), the provincial county (1829), the municipality (1845) and the Federal county (1867).

Chimney Point, Vermont

In 1731, the French decided to firmly establish their presence on Lake Champlain and block the lake route from the British colonies to Canada by building a fort at the strategic narrows between Chimney Point and Crown Point, New York.

Cobden, Ontario

It is known that he eventually made his way to Green Lake and at this point, according to several 17th century authors, Champlain lost his Astrolabe.

David Hackett Fischer

In 2008 he published Champlain's Dream, an exploration of Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer and founder of Quebec City.

Dorset Mountain

The southwestern slopes drain into the Mettawee River, and thence into the south bay of Lake Champlain.

Étienne Brûlé

Champlain made the arrangement to do so and in return, the chief Iroquet (an Algonquin leader of the Petite nation who wintered his people near Huronia), requested that Champlain take Savignon, a young Huron, with him to teach him the customs and habits of the French.

Interstate 87

The Northway and I-87 end shortly thereafter at the Canadian border, where the highway continues past the Champlain-St. Bernard de Lacolle Border Crossing into Quebec as A-15.

Jeannie Peterson

Her work was exhibited at the Island Arts Gallery of the Merchant's Bank on the Champlain Islands, the North Hero Town Hall in the Champlain Islands, the Brian Memorial Gallery in Stowe, Vermont, at the Forchgott and Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne, Vermont, and at the Champlain Valley exposition in Vermont.

Lake Champlain Seaway

The objective was to allow easy ship traffic from New York City to Montreal through Lake Champlain, lowering transportation costs between the two cities.

As proposed, ships would have used a dredged channel in the Hudson River, transferred to an upgraded Champlain Canal, navigated Lake Champlain, traversed an upgraded Chambly Canal and St Ours Canal, and traveled a dredged route up the Richelieu River to Montreal.

Lordship of Champlain

• 1664: Construction of Fort La Touche-Champlain, in Champlain, at the mouth of the Champlain River.

In 1684, Monsignor François de Montmorency-Laval gives the official titles to the Catholic parish of Champlain, twenty years after the creation of the Lordship of Champlain, pointing out that the place is commonly called "Champlain".

On the territory of the future lordship de Champlain, the first attempt of colonization on land granted by August 16, 1643 at Champlain to Jacques Aubuchon of Trois-Rivières has not resulted mainly because of the remoteness and the Iroquois threat.

In 1679, the town of Champlain had 250 people divided into forty families, some were established since the founding of the Lordship.

• April 5, 1644: concession of the fief Marsolet and fief Tree to the Cross, located in the present territory of the Municipality of Champlain.

In 1535, during his second voyage of discovery on the St. Lawrence River, Jacques Cartier passed in front of the future town of Champlain.

The fief Marsolet and fief Hertel, granted April 5, 1644, are located in the area of Upper-Champlain (western part of the municipality).

The same place-name was issued by the authorities in the Catholic parish at provincial county (1829), the Municipality (1845) and the past federal County (1867).

Mortimer Y. Ferris

He was Chairman of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission which supervised the construction of two bridges over Lake Champlain: The Champlain Bridge from Crown Point, New York, to Chimney Point, Vermont, in 1929; and a second bridge, from Rouses Point, New York, to Alburgh, Vermont, in 1937.

Nepean Point

Previously, the statue also featured a kneeling First Nations (Anishinabe) scout, added in 1918 to "signify how the native people helped Champlain navigate through the waters of the Ottawa River", but this has been relocated to nearby Major's Hill Park.

Paul Henri Bouffard

He was vice-president for two insurance companies and the Champlain Paper Box Company and served as director for a number of companies, including the Shawinigan Water and Power Company, the Saint Lawrence Cement Company (now part of Holcim) and the Dow Brewery.

Pierre Grenier

He ran as a Conservative candidate in the district of in the provincial district of Champlain in 1890 and won with the backing of local Catholic Bishop Louis-François Richer Laflèche.

Pierre La Motte

Isle La Motte, Vermont, a small island in Lake Champlain, was named for Pierre La Motte.

Rivière à Veillet

The people residing in the depth of "Chemin de la rivière Veillet" (road of Veillet river) in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan and Gendron Creek (a tributary of the Charest River) in Saint-Prosper lived close together.

Saint Croix Island, Maine

The following spring, Champlain and François Gravé Du Pont, moved the settlement to a new location on the southern shore of the Bay of Fundy called Port-Royal.

Saratoga campaign

On June 13, 1777, Burgoyne and Carleton reviewed the assembled forces at St. John's on the Richelieu River, just north of Lake Champlain, and Burgoyne was ceremonially given command.

Willis Adcock

In 1936 he went to live with his uncle in nearby Champlain, New York to attend high school, as Clarenceville did not have a high school at the time.

Winthrop H. Smith, Jr.

He also serves as a Director of Eaton Vance Corporation, AGF Management in Canada, the Richardson Financial Group, Richardson-GMP in Canada, the National Ski Areas Association, the Vermont Ski Areas Associatiom and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce.


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