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unusual facts about Sault-au-Récollet


Daniel Williams Harmon

Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Dewey) Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada.


49th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA

49th (Sault Ste. Marie) Field Artillery Regiment, R.C.A. is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve regiment based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Aiguebelle National Park

The principal lakes are Aiguebelle and Lake Lois to the north, and Lake Sault and Lake La Haie located in the area of faults.

Battle of Orthez

That evening, the French escaped across the Luy de Béarn River at Sault-de-Navailles in some disorder, blowing up the bridge behind them.

Cambrian College

It was originally established with campuses in Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie; the North Bay and Sault campuses became the independent Canadore College and Sault College in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

CKCY

CJQM-FM, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to Sault Ste.

CHBX-TV, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Sault Ste.

Dolmen

And all around the country, several dolmens still stand, such as the ones of Passebonneau and des Gorces near Saint-Benoît-du-Sault.

Jim Ralph

While playing for the 67's, Ralph started his broadcasting career as a summer fill in announcer on CHAS-FM in the Sault.

Joseph de La Roche Daillon

Joseph de La Roche Daillon (d. 1656, Paris) was a French Catholic missionary to the Huron Indians and a Franciscan Récollet priest.

Long Sault

The Long Sault created a navigation barrier along the river for much of its history, necessitating the construction of the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, in the 1950s as the size of ships and the volume of shipping traffic along the river began to exceed the capacity of the area's canal locks.

Norbert Burgmüller

The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Geoffrey Moull gave the North American premiere of Symphony No. 2 at the Algoma Fall Festival in Sault Ste.

Richard Sault

In 1694 Sault wrote A Treatise of Algebra as an appendix to William Leybourne's Pleasure with Profit; it included Joseph Raphson's Converging Series for all manner of adfected equations.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan

Francis J. Kane - an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago is the current Titular Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie.

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Whereas the modern saut means simply "(a) jump", sault was also applied to cataracts, waterfalls and rapids in the 17th century, hence the placenames Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New/Nouveau Brunswick and Sault-au-Récollet on the Island of Montreal in Canada; and Sault-Saint-Remy and Sault-Brénaz, in France.

Sault Symphony Orchestra

The Sault Symphony School of Music was established by the Symphony in 1997, when a joint venture with Lake Superior State University allowed the Symphony to relocate world renowned violinist, Oleg Pokhanovski, and his brother, Mikhail, an accomplished violist, to Sault Ste.

WSOO

WSOO is owned and operated by Sovereign Communications, and is part of Sovereign's 7-station cluster in the Sault Ste.


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