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7 unusual facts about Outaouais


Cégep de l'Outaouais

While French is the main teaching language at the institution, there are also courses offered in English, Spanish, German and Mandarin.

Green Party of Quebec candidates, 2008 Quebec provincial election

Sixty-six years old during the municipal campaign, he was president of the Coalition for Rapid Transit in the Outaouais and called for a light rail network to replace the city's planned Rapibus transitway.

Parti Québécois candidates, 1998 Quebec provincial election

Claude Hallé is a founder of a program for single parents in the Outaouais.

Quebec Autoroute 5

Autoroute 5 (or A-5, also called Autoroute de la Gatineau) is a short Autoroute in the Outaouais region of western Quebec.

Quebec Autoroute 50

The primary purpose of the A-50 was to connect Ottawa and the Outaouais with Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.

Quebec Route 301

Route 301 is a provincial highway located in the Outaouais region in western Quebec.

Quebec Route 307

Route 307 is a provincial road located in the Outaouais region of Quebec.


Canadian federal election results in the Laurentides, Outaouais and Northern Quebec

In 2006, however, everything changed as Liberal support melted here; the party lost two of their three Outaouais seats – one to the Bloc and one to the Conservatives.

David Collenette

It produced a report which suggested light-rail service expansion throughout the city of Ottawa and several communities in Eastern Ontario as well as portions of the Outaouais region in Western Quebec.

Déléage, Quebec

In 1930, it was renamed to Déléage, in honour of Jean-Francois-Regis Déléage (1821-1884), born in Haute-Loire and missionary in the Outaouais from 1853 to 1879, where he founded a dozen parishes.

Henri Nouvel

Between 1688 and 1695, during his second term as superior of the Outaouais mission, Nouvel intervened in the conflict between the Jesuit missionaries and Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac over raids on Native American warriors and trafficking of Eau de vie.

Jocelyne Houle

During her first term, she was credited for several projects, including the revitalization of Buckingham's main street, Avenue de Buckingham as well as improvement's to the city's only bridge, improved public transit service from the STO as well as the addition of a municipal pool at École secondaire Hormidas-Gamelin.

Joseph Facal

He was also given ministerial responsibility for Canadian francophones and Acadians living outside Quebec, while giving up responsibility for the Outaouais to Sylvain Simard.

Robert-Émile Fortin

In 1973, he held his first exhibition of paintings in Hull with L'Amicale Artistique de l'Outaouais.

Saint-Émile

Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, Quebec, a municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada

Sixte

Saint-Sixte, Quebec, small town in the region of Outaouais, Quebec, Canada


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