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8 unusual facts about Roseau


Boeri River

It rises on the western slopes of Morne Trois Pitons, flowing south and then west to reach the Caribbean Sea on the country's southwestern coast, to the north of the capital, Roseau.

Cissie Caudeiron

Mabel Alice "Cissie" Caudeiron (December 20, 1909 – 1968) was a folklorist from Roseau, Dominica.

Lennox Honychurch

He was largely responsible for compiling the exhibit information for The Dominica Museum in Roseau.

Minnesota State Highway 308

The route follows a short part of the former alignment of State Highway 89, north of State Highway 11; until a shortcut was constructed for Highway 89, west of the city of Roseau.

Minnesota State Highway 310

Minnesota State Highway 310 is a highway in northwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highways 11 and 89 in Roseau and continues north to its northern terminus at the U.S.-Canadian border; where the route becomes Manitoba Provincial Road 310 upon crossing the border, near the community of South Junction, Manitoba.

Roseau, Saint Lucia

Roseau is a town on the island of Saint Lucia; it is located on the western side of the island, below Marigot.

Sir George Prevost, 2nd Baronet

The only son of Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet, by Catherine Anne, daughter of Major-general John Phipps, he was born at Roseau on Dominica on 20 August 1804.

Sleep It Off Lady

"The Bishop's Feast": A home-born returnee is invited by an old nun to witness the enthronement of a new Bishop in Roseau, before spending a week on Dominica's leeward coast.


Eugène Green

Declamation of Jean de La Fontaine, Le chêne et le roseau ; Torquato Tasso, La mort de Clorinda (La Gerusalemme liberata); Théophile de Viau, La Mort de Pyrame ; William Shakespeare, The Death of Kings (Richard II), To be or not to be (Hamlet); Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Qu'est-ce que notre être (excerpt from Sermon sur la mort); Jean Racine, Je ne croiray point?

Pointe Michel

It is located to the south of the capital, Roseau, and is known for being the birthplace of Dominica's first (and to date only) female Prime Minister, Dame Eugenia Charles.

Roseau Cathedral

The additions to the cathedral started with a steeple built in 1855, followed by a wooden ceiling for the cathedral in 1865 by the Kalinagos who cut and brought simaruba trees from the northeast of Roseau; it took them three months to build the wooden ceiling.


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