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3 unusual facts about Réno-Dépôt


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In 1987, Groupe Val Royal entered into a strategic agreement with the Molson Companies and acquired the Castor Bricoleur stores, located in Québec.

Réno-Dépôt

In 1987, Groupe Val Royal entered into a strategic agreement with the Molson Companies and acquired the Castor Bricoleur stores, located in Québec.

In 1997, the two majority shareholders of Réno-Dépôt Inc., the Michaud family and Molson Companies Limited, sold their interest in the company to the French group Castorama S.A. In 1998, the British group Kingfisher PLC acquired a large block of shares from the Castorama S.A. group to become the majority shareholder.


1916–17 Blackpool F.C. season

Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season.

21 July 2005 London bombings

The vehicle involved was Stagecoach London Dennis Trident 2 (17762, LX03 BUU), identical in type to the bus destroyed on 7/7, and based at the same depot; Stratford (SD).

A Family Secret

A Family Secret earned two Genie Award nominations (Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Ginette Reno and Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay) and won a Stony Brook Film Festival award for Best Feature.

Antoine Choquet de Lindu

1766–1767 : Matelot barrack-block (second depot) up to the first floor

Biscotasing, Ontario

From railway construction camp, to fur trade depot and lumbering centre, in 1922 Biscotasing became the first place in Northern Ontario to use aircraft (Curtiss NC) for forest fire surveillance.

Brico Dépôt

Brico Dépôt is a French chain of DIY and Home Improvement stores, headquartered in Longpont-sur-Orge.

Casey Crawford

After unsuccessful pre-season tryouts with various National Basketball Developmental League teams (Reno Bighorns, Sioux Falls Skyforce,Iowa Energy), Crawford was signed in November by the Coventry Crusaders of the English Basketball League Division 1 team.

Crawford Notch

In the Carroll portion of the notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club has built and operates the Highland Center Lodge and Conference Center, and has renovated the Queen Anne style Victorian-era Crawford Notch Maine Central train depot as a bookstore.

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse

Reno and Magimel are joined by a religious specialist called Marie, played by Camille Natta.

Dabirpura

Dabeerpura is connected by buses run by APSRTC, since a Bus Depot is close by, it is well connected to Charminar, Nampally and L.B Nagar.

Esterwegen concentration camp

Then Esterwegen served as a British internment camp, as a prison, and, until 2000, as a depot for the German Army.

Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway

Built in 1913, the depot is a repository for dozens of railroadiana items, including props which helped disguise the two Moguls as 1860s 4-4-0 American engines for the filming of scenes from the 1982 television mini-series The Blue and the Gray.

Florence, Colorado

Florence was built as small railroad depot for the trains that hauled coal from the neighboring towns of Rockvale and Coal Creek.

G. William Richards

Richards later moved with his family to Reno, Nevada where he served as executive vice-president of the Nevada Division of the American Cancer Society.

Geek Squad

Best Buy terminated its partnership with Office Depot in Orlando, Florida, where Geek Squad precincts were located in 10 Office Depot locations.

George Decker

According to his Army biography, highlights of his tenure were supervising augmentations to meet the crisis in Berlin (surrounding the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961), increasing special warfare forces, initiating new divisional and forward depot concepts, and expanding the Army to sixteen divisions.

Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions

The idea for the song was inspired by an old train depot in Stuart's home town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Harlescott

There was once a military supply depot here, RAF Harlescott, but this has closed and the nearest RAF base is now a few miles away at Shawbury.

Harvey's

The Home Depot partnership for Saskatchewan ended in 2006, leading to the closure of all restaurants in that province except for the University of Saskatchewan location.

Henry Ince

Perhaps appropriately, by the mid-20th century it had been turned into a store depot for the Soldier Artificers' successors, the Royal Engineers.

Huntsville Depot

Huntsville was occupied by Union forces in 1862 during the Civil War as a strategic point on the railroad and the depot was used as a prison for Confederate soldiers.

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict train service to the station was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot in Haifa on July 16, 2006, killing 8 Israel Railways workers.

Jay White

Now 1989, after an audition and a seven-week run in Reno, Nevada, Jay moved with his wife and three children from Utica, Michigan to Las Vegas to perform with Legends in the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino.

John R. Perry

He was awarded a second Legion of Merit for the development of the Leyte-Samar area into a large naval base and assisting in the planning and construction of an air station, air strips, a fleet hospital, the Navy Receiving Station at Tubabao, a Navy Supply Depot, an ammunition depot and a ship repair base at Manicani.

Joseph M. McDade

Regionally, McDade was the principal advocate for the Tobyhanna Army Depot and was instrumental in establishing the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, the Steamtown National Historic Site, and the National Fishery Laboratory in Wellsboro.

KJFK

KSGG, a radio station (1230 AM) licensed to serve Reno, Nevada, United States known as "KJFK" from 2005 to 2013

Lenoir Cotton Mill

The Lenoir Cotton Mill site is located near the corner of Depot Street and South Hill Street, just off U.S. Route 11 in downtown Lenoir City.

Lithuanian Air Force

Air Base and Air Force Armament and Equipment Repair Depot are located in Šiauliai.

Louis Curtiss

Other Curtiss railroad architecture included the 1910-1912 Union Terminal in Wichita, Kansas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Sweetwater, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Lubbock, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Snyder, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Post, Texas, and the 1910-1911 Joplin Union Depot in Joplin, Missouri.

Marconi Express

5 km in length, it will link Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Bologna Centrale railway station, with an intermediate station and depot at Lazzaretto and an expected travel time of 7 minutes.

Morsleben radioactive waste repository

The first partial authorization for retrievable storage of 500 cubic meters of radioactive waste from the crowded central storage depot in Lohmen near Dresden, East Germany was granted in 1971/72.

Nakajima J1N

The airplane was moved to the Air Materiel Depot at Middletown, Pennsylvania, on 23 January 1946.

Oakey, Queensland

The Depot serviced, assembled and conducted test flights of Bristol Beaufort, P-51 Mustang, Norsemen, CAC Wirraway and Supermarine Spitfire aircraft.

Passi, Iloilo

Passi was made the quartermaster depot of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for the food of the army that resisted in Bataan through Capiz.

Quinlan, Texas

In 1892 Edward H. R. Green, Hetty Green's son and president of the Texas Midland, abandoned Roberts as a depot and established a new depot town, Quinlan, 1½ miles north of the older community.

Railtour

Locations – such as Carne Point at Fowey, Cornwall – which have not seen passenger trains for several decades, or locations that have never had a public passenger service – such as the MOD depot at Long Marston – can be traversed by such trains.

Railways in Ely

Cemex operates an asphalt and building materials depot at the site.

Reno Browne

In 1951, Bill Haley and His Saddlemen recorded a single called "My Palomino and I"/"My Sweet Little Girl from Nevada" for Cowboy Records (CR 1701) which was released as by "Reno Browne and Her Buckaroos", even though Browne had no connection with the recording (though her photo did appear on the sheet music for the latter song).

Roaring Springs, Texas

(June 23, 1919–July 30, 2012), a native of Willis near Conroe in Montgomery County, Texas, was for thirty-five years the depot agent of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railroad, first in Roaring Springs and after 1960 in Floydada.

Rob Guest

In 1981 he moved to the United States with his first wife, Lynette Perry, where he spent most of the 1980s performing and hosting shows in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe.

SAGE Computer Technology

SAGE Computer Technology was a computer company based in Reno, Nevada, United States.

St Philip's Marsh

Owned by Network Rail under depot code PM, it is leased to train operator First Great Western, and has been used since their introduction for the maintenance of InterCity 125 trains operating between London Paddington, Bristol and South Wales.

Tyseley railway station

It is situated at the junction of the lines from Birmingham towards Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, and is adjacent to a large railway depot and Tyseley Locomotive Works.

Vancouver Art Gallery

In November 2007, the gallery announced plans to move to a new building at Larwill Park, a block formerly occupied by a bus depot on the corner of Cambie and Georgia streets opposite the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

VIU-55 Munja

VTI has done the conceptual design of the Munja general-purpose engineer vehicle and the Čačak-based Overhaul Depot has built the vehicle.

William A. Massey

After his time in the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Reno, and died on a train near Litchfield, Nevada in March 1914.

Yarbrough

Cedric Yarbrough comedic actor, best known for his role on Reno 911.

Yokohama Chinatown

There are 6 bus routes from Yokohama Station East bus depot and from Sakuragichō Bus Depot, 16 bus routes that go to Yokohama Chinatown.

Zoufftgen train collision

The Luxembourger driver of TER 837 617 received an order to pass a red (stop) signal to enter the zone operated by freight train number 45 938, pulled by SNCF Class BB 37000 locomotive 37007 from the Thionville depot, which had entered the section as normal by passing a green signal.


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