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unusual facts about Pointe-Claire


Benjamin D'Urban

Sir Benjamin D'Urban's remains now rest at the Last Post Fund National Field of Honour, a military cemetery owned by the Last Post Fund in Pointe-Claire where there is an obelisk to his memory.


126th Field Artillery Regiment

:Former 1st Cavalry reconstituted in the Wisconsin National Guard and partially organized between October 1919 and March 1921 with Troops A, and B at Milwaukee; Troop E at Kenosha, Troop G at Watertown, Troop H at Fort Atkinson; and Troop L at Eau Claire.

Altoona, Wisconsin

Altoona is a part of the Eau Claire media market; until early 2009, it was served by its own free weekly newspaper, the Altoona Star. Altoona is also home to the studios and offices of Maverick Media stations WAYY, WEAQ, WECL, WIAL, WAXX, and WDRK-FM.

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia

Each Reyvateil has their own singer (who is different from their voice actor in both Japanese and English versions) who performed their Songs and Hymns: Aurica: Haruka Shimotsuki, Misha: Akiko Shikata, Shurelia: Noriko Mitose and Claire: Yūko Ishibashi.

Artwork of Isaac Mendez

A painting which depicts the death of Noah Bennet while a blonde girl (Claire) stands nearby with a man (West) in shadows (8/8).

Bleak Spring

It was the tenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone and centers on the murder of a solicitor who Scobie knew, and whose son happens to be dating Scobie's daughter, Claire.

Boone Carlyle

In the original outline of the eleventh episode, Locke was to be accompanied by two guest characters to search for Claire and discover the Hatch.

Brooke Mikey Anderson

Brooke played the character Claire on the Australian series E Street, and has appeared in two episodes ("?" and "Live Together, Die Alone") of the American series Lost.

Camblesforth

It was the home of Claire Sanderson, who shared the flat with her fiancee Mark Hobson.

Christopher Glynn

He has subsequently performed as a piano accompanist with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Catherine Wyn Rogers.

Claire Bazy-Malaurie

Claire Bazy-Malaurie (born 19 April 1949) is a member of the Constitutional Council of France.

Claire Chitham

Claire Margaret Chitham (born 12 July 1978 in Auckland) is a New Zealand television actress.

Claire Ferchaud

Claire Ferchaud was born a few miles from Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, in the little village of Loublande, in the province of Vendée.

Claire Jowitt

Claire Jowitt is an academic writing on race, cross-gender, piracy, identity, empire and performance.

Claire Loewenfeld

Claire Loewenfeld died on 20 August 1974, and is buried at St Lawrence's Church, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, near where she lived, alongside her husband Gunther Loewenfeld's cousins, Margaret Lowenfeld and Helena Wright née Lowenfeld.

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs Jordan at Kenwood in 1995, and about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in 1997.

Cleghorn, Wisconsin

The now-extinct community of Hadleyville lies approximately three miles to the west, along Eau Claire County Highway "HH".

Eau Claire High School

Eau Claire High School is the name of several high schools in the United States.

Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions

A committee of eight educational psychologists (David Berliner, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Richard Mayer, Wilbert J. McKeachie, Michael Pressley, Richard Snow, Claire Ellen Weinstein, and Joanna Williams) selected the following biographical subjects.

Eielsen Synod

In 1985, there were approximately 50 members at just three churches: Stall Norwegian Church in Jackson, Minnesota Bethania Lutheran (Lodi / Eau Claire WI) and Immanuel in French Lake, Minnesota.

Elle Bishop

Former Company employee Noah Bennet captures Elle for collateral, as Bob had captured his daughter, Claire.

Five Day Lover

Claire (Jean Seberg), a young Englishwoman, lives in Paris with her staid husband, Georges (François Périer), a government archivist, and their two small children.

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles was built around 1670 on the Island of Montreal in order to defend this part of the island which also included Ville-Marie.

Gérard Patris

The late muse of Picasso, Sylvette David (now in her 70s and known as Lydia Corbett, see Sylvette) and Marie-Claire Schaeffer, his first wife, were the two mothers.

Gregory Moore

Gregg Moore, member of the Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors and the current chairperson

Jake Dowell

The Dowells have teamed with many Eau Claire businesses, Clear Channel Radio and WEAU-TV to host fundraisers to battle the disease.

La Malbaie

The Fairmont Manoir Richelieu hotel and Casino de Charlevoix are both located in the neighbourhood and former municipality of Pointe-au-Pic.

Maura McGiveney

McGiveney earned a Golden Globe nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as Most Promising Newcomer of 1966 for her role as Claire Hackett in the farce Do Not Disturb with Doris Day and Rod Taylor.

Microwave Massacre

Donald (Vernon) is a construction worker with a big problem: his shrew of a wife May (Claire Ginsberg) has started to only cook gourmet foods in a Hyacinth Bucket-style misguided effort to make themselves seem classier than they are.

Millie the Model

A 1986 Off-Broadway musical, Dial "M" For Model by John Epperson, inspired by Millie, was staged at LaMaMa E.T.C. Not a direct adaptation, it featured, for instance, the female impersonator Lypsinka as Mannequin St. Claire, a character based on Chili.

Nathan Petrelli

Later, he and Tracy meet up with Claire and an injured Peter Petrelli, who reveals to him not only that their father Arthur Petrelli is still alive, but that he has absorbed his powers.

Nine for IX

See how Lisa Olson, Melissa Ludtke, Claire Smith, Lesley Visser and Jane Gross fought to be accepted, regardless of gender, and create a harassment-free work environment.

No Ennui

k.d. lang, Dayna Kurtz, Paula Cabor, Micki Korb, Claire Morkin, Paul Cebar, Paul Scher, Wesley Savick, Rob Gjersoe, Emily Saliers, Amy Ray - background vocals

Now Take My Wife

It starred Sheila Hancock and Donald Houston as a suburban middle-class couple, Claire and Harry Love.

Olivier Voutier

He retired to the city of Hyères in 1847, where he purchased the land of a former convent in the hills and constructed a villa called the Castel Sainte-Claire.

Outarde

Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, is a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers

Pointe au Baril, Ontario

Pointe au Baril is also a setting of John Irving's novel Last Night in Twisted River, where many of the places are described in the winter setting, including nearby islands.

Pointe Coupee Parish School Board

Upper Pointe Coupee High School (at a previous point Batchelor High School) - Merged into Pointe Coupee Central High School in 1991

Pointe des Almadies

The Almadies peninsula was a featured location in the 1964 film The Endless Summer where Bruce Brown shot the film's stars Mike Hynson and Robert August at a reef near Pointe des Almadies.

Pointe-Noire

Congolese oil has been largely exploited by the French company Elf Aquitaine since its discovery around 1980.

Princess Party

Jay and Gloria arrive, but Mitchell and Claire see that Gloria is drunk, because she downed a Xanax with a shot of Tequila, which prompts her to make no sense.

Rebecca Lacey

The campaign advert featured Lacey, Claire Goose, David Tennant, Hugo Speer and Ian Kelsey.

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire

Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire (April 10, 1656, Ouanne, Burgundy - August 4, 1718, Rimouski, Quebec) is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, province of Quebec, in Canada.

Rivière-à-la-Lime

In its course, the river flows through the Route 361 of the “rang Rivière à la lime" (row). The “rivière à la lime” empties into the Batiscan River, towards la “Grande pointe” (great point of land), above the village of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan.

South Pointe Tower

Notable residents of South Pointe Tower have included Madonna and Lenny Kravitz.

The Pointe at North Fayette

The Pointe is unique in that it has an exit off one of Pittsburgh's busiest highways, I-376/US 22/US 30 (known locally as the Parkway West).

Theodore Steinmetz

Mr. Steinmetz was also conductor of the Eau Claire Municipal Band, the 105th Cavalry Band and was the longest serving musician in the Wisconsin National Guard.

Victor Baptistin Sénès

Three years later, when in command of the ship's machine guns at Tonkin, he distinguished himself during operations in the River Claire (Sông Lô River, also called the Lo River).

Vivienne Dick

It featured a collection of her remarkable films and included a performance by Lydia Lunch as well as discussions with Nan Goldin, Claire Pajaczkowska and Maeve Connolly, as well as films by other artists selected by Dick.


see also

Gordon Giffin

He lived in Montreal and Toronto for 17 years, attending Valois Park Elementary School in Pointe Claire and Richview Collegiate in Etobicoke.