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unusual facts about Roman Catholic Diocese of Baie-Comeau


Lac-au-Brochet, Quebec

Named after Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, bishop of the Diocese of Golfe St-Laurent, it was established in the 1950s as a work camp to accommodate Hydro-Québec workers constructing the Bersimis-1 and Bersimis-2 generating stations.


Andy Comeau

In 2010, Comeau portrayed a plastic-surgery patient in the final season of Nip/Tuck and appeared in a Progressive Auto Insurance advertisement.

Baie-Comeau

Baie-Comeau itself (the eastern part of the current town) was founded in 1936 when a paper mill was constructed by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

CHLC

CHLC-FM, a radio station (97.1 FM) licensed to Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada

Comeau C/C++

Comeau Computing's CEO, Greg Comeau, provided one of the early ports of cfront to the PC.

Dennis Comeau

Dennis Comeau (born 1960, New Haven, CT) is a shoe designer and former new wave vocalist and guitarist.

Fransaskois

Comeau was a member of the 2004 Memorial Cup champion Kelowna Rockets and a member of two Gold medal winning World Junior Hockey championship teams.

Labrador West, Newfoundland and Labrador

The nearest population centres to Labrador West is the Quebec town of Fermont, 30 km away; ports of Sept-Îles and Baie-Comeau to the south and the military town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay to the east.

Madame le Corbeau

On September 9, 1949, Rita Guay was scheduled to board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, at L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City, Quebec, where it made a scheduled stopover during a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau.

Marjolain Dufour

Dufour worked from 1977 to 1998 at Alcoa in Baie-Comeau and was the regional president of the trade union group the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) for six years and the vice-president of the aluminum union group of Baie-Comeau.


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