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unusual facts about Lac-Beauport


Lac-Beauport, Quebec

Around 1820, a small cluster of homes was built on the present site of the municipality, named Waterloo Settlement by the English immigrants after the Anglo-Prussian victory at Waterloo.


Adoption of Chinese literary culture

The earliest extant writings by Vietnamese authors are poems from the late 10th century, in Chinese, by the Buddhist monks Lac Thuan and Khuông Việt.

Aiguebelette-le-Lac

It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Alexandre Cloutier

He was also the political aide for former Lac-Saint-Jean MNA and predecessor Stéphan Tremblay in 2006 and the former federal MP for Lac-Saint-Jean-Saguenay in 2000.

Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House

It has been featured in such diverse publications as Architectural Digest, Country Living, and The Boston Globe, and as been showcased on televisions programs such as America's Castles.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Charles Deblois

He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament after which he was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Michel Guimond in the 1993 federal election when the riding was renamed to Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans.

Colonial American military history

As a result of the war, Maine fell to the New Englanders with the defeat of Father Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to St. Francis and Becancour, Quebec.

Convention du Lac

Convention du Lac is a North American multi-genre convention, held annually in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now operating under the name BayouCon, presented by the non-profit Southwest Louisiana Science Education Foundation.

Convention du Lac held its first event at the Enos Derbonne Sports Complex in South Lake Charles, with an estimated 280 attendees, and Battlestar Galactica actor Richard Hatch as the Guest of Honor.

Coteau-du-Lac canal

The construction of the canal at Coteau-du-Lac began in 1779 under the control of Captain William Twiss.

Duhamel, Quebec

Starting in 1925, the Singer Company, best known for its sewing machines, built a railway through Duhamel linking Thurso to Lake Montjoie (in Lac-Ernest unorganized territory).

Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff

Intended for use by miners, the lamp was actually developed both by Alphonse Dumas, an engineer at the iron mines of Saint-Priest and of Lac, near Privas, in the départment of Ardèche, France, and by Dr. Camille Benoît, a medical doctor in Privas.

Ivry-sur-le-Lac, Quebec

In 1891, Countess Angela Ogier d'Ivry, from Le Mans (France), bought a farm for her son Viscount Raoul Ogier d'Ivry, who chose the name of the new municipality which formed in 1912 by separating from the parishes of Sainte-Agathe and Saint-Faustin.

KFIZ

WFON, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, which used the call sign KFIZ-FM from November 1993 to February 2004

Kherbet Rouha

North America also has many citizens from Kherbet Rouha that live in other cities such as Lac La Biche, Windsor, Woodstock, London, Toronto and Dearborn, Michigan.

Lac du Bouchet

Bouchet lake (or Lake of Bouchet; French: Lac du Bouchet) is located in Haute-Loire, France next to Le Puy-en-Velay.

Lac La Biche County, Alberta

Two FM radio stations broadcast out of Lac La Biche – Big Dog (CILB FM 103.5) and Aboriginal Radio (CFWE FM 89.9).

Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

A March 2011 study by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Lac qui Parle County the healthiest county in Minnesota.

Lac-à-la-Tortue, Quebec

As of December 21, 1884, Louis-François Richer Laflèche sign the decree establishing the parish from a dismembered part of the parishes of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Quebec (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) and Saint-Jacques des Piles.

Lac-Édouard, Quebec

The Triton Fish and Game Club, today the Seigneurie du Triton is the most prestigious club hunting and fishing in Quebec and received illustrious members in particular Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the England) and American presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as family members of Rockefeller and Molson.

Lac-Simon, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec

The return of deer to the area was featured in an episode of Lorne Greene's New Wilderness in the mid-1980s.

Lachine, Quebec

Around the canal's inlet, in the southern part of the borough, are located The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site, René Lévesque Park (on a long peninsula extending into Lac Saint-Louis), and the Musée de Lachine, which has collections of modern outdoor sculpture both on its own grounds, in René Lévesque Park, and in other sites throughout the borough.

LandAmerica Financial Group

LandAmerica sold the subsidiary, LandAmerica Assessment Corporation (LAC), to Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. (Partner) in March 2009.

Les Voltigeurs de Québec

War of 1812: Les Voltigeurs de Québec perpetuate the Provincial Corps of Light Infantry (Canadian Voltigeurs), the 1st and 2nd Battalions (City of Quebec) (1812–15), the Beauport Division (1812–15) and the 6th Battalion, Select Embodied Militia.

Louis Champagne

He is best known for controversial remarks he made during the 2007 Quebec election campaign, when he interviewed Lac-Saint-Jean Parti Québécois candidate Alexandre Cloutier on February 19, 2007.

Louis Juchereau de St. Denis

His mother, Marie Thérèse Giffard de Beauport, was the daughter of Robert Giffard de Moncel, Sieur de Moncel à Autheuil, and the 1st Seigneur of Beauport, Quebec.

Michael Mastro

In 2011 they started a journey that began at Mr. Mastro’s sister house in Seattle, went on to Toronto, Canada and according to investigators Focus Ltd. ended in a €5,000 per month house in Veyrier-du-Lac, France, on the eastern shore of Lake Annecy.

Minnesota State Highway 275

Minnesota State Highway 275 is a highway in southwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with Lac qui Parle County Road 2 in Boyd and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 212 in Baxter Township, 6 miles east of Dawson.

Namekagon Portage

The area was later visited by Henry Schoolcraft in 1831 who described the Namekagon Portage running from the Namekagon River to Lac Courte Oreilles by way of Windigo Lake (called by him Lac des Isles) and Grindstone Lake (called by him Lac du Gres).

Nelly Arcan

Lac-Mégantic's municipal library, assembled from over a hundred thousand donated books after fire destroyed the original library during 2013's Lac-Mégantic derailment, is named « La Médiathèque municipale Nelly-Arcan » in her honour.

Notre-Dame-du-Lac

Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, a former city that is now part of Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac

Older than America

Adam Beach as John Goodfeather, Fond du Lac Reservation police officer and Rain's fiance

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Quebec Route 143

Its northern terminus is in Saint-François-du-Lac, at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is in Stanstead at the border with Vermont where the road continues past the Derby Line-Stanstead Border Crossing as U.S. Route 5 through Derby Line to New Haven, Connecticut.

Rail World

After the derailment at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada of a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway freight train on 6 July 2013 which left 47 people dead or missing, president Edward Burkhardt visited Lac-Mégantic on 10 July 2013, and was heckled by residents who were critical of his company's response to the incident.

Régis Campo

The film director Philippe Grandrieux (Sombre, La Vie Nouvelle) has recently entrusted him with the task of creating the music for his next feature-length film Un Lac.

Saint of Me

With Jagger on vocals, acoustic guitar and keyboards, Waddy Wachtel and Ron Wood play electric guitars (Keith Richards is notably absent), Me'Shell Ndegéocello and Pierre de Beauport on bass and six-string bass, respectively, and Stones-recording veteran Billy Preston on organ.

Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec

The village and buildings were burned in an attack by Rogers' Rangers, an irregular British provincial force, during the Seven Years War (also known as the French and Indian War) on October 4, 1759.

During Father Rale's War, on September 10, 1722, in conjunction with Father Rale at Norridgewock, 400 or 500 St. Francis (Odanak, Quebec) and Mi'kmaq Indians prepared their attack on Arrowsic, Maine.

Samuel Morin

He was born in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, but grew up in Saint-Henri in Bellechasse, Quebec.

St. Clair Township, Michigan

An expedition led by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle named it Lac Sainte-Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Two Mountains

Lake of Two Mountains, Lac des Deux Montagnes, lake in the Greater Montreal Area

University of Minnesota Old Campus Historic District

The buff-colored sandstone is from quarries near Banning State Park, while the red sandstone is from the Fond du Lac formation.

WPVS-LP

The launch by TBN of WWRS from Mayville did not affect W16BS as that station's signal was blocked by the Kettle Moraine range east of Fond du Lac, blocking any signal from entering Sheboygan and leaving TBN to continue to operate W16BS.

Xuân Thủy National Park

According to statistic data of the Giao Thủy District People's Committee from the year 2005, there are 47.123 inhabitants living in the five Buffer Zone Communes (Giao Thien, Giao An, Giao Lac, Giao Xuan and Giao Hai) belonging to the National Park.


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