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3 unusual facts about Trois-Rivières


2010 Star Mazda Championship season

Five races will support the American Le Mans Series, and will also join the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge at Trois-Rivières.

Martin P. Blomberg

From 1912 to 1914, he worked in Trois-Rivières, Quebec in a paper mill, and studied technical drawing and mechanical construction in an evening school.

Ostmecklenburgische Flugzeugbau

Realizing that the bulk of the market for this aircraft was in North America, Stinnes set up a production facility in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada with financial help from the Government of Quebec.


Alexis HK

2011 saw another 2-month tour under the title Seuls à trois with Renan Luce and Benoît Dorémus.

André Gabias

In the 2007 Quebec elections, Gabias lost the seat to the Action démocratique du Québec's Sébastien Proulx who had received the support of Trois-Rivières mayor Yves Lévesque during the campaign.

Antonio Tavira y Almazán

He was very good friend of Minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, suspicious both to the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the 18th century of comptent and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire, Abbé Grégoire, (Vého, (Trois-Évêchés), near Lunéville, France, 4 December 1750 - Paris, 20 May 1831).

Céline sur les Plaines

# "Les trois petits cochons" (Dan Bigras and Mes Aïeux)

CHLN

CKOB-FM, a radio station (106.9 FM) licensed to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, which formerly held the call sign CHLN-FM

Christophe Tinseau

In 1997 he raced in Indy Lights but only managed an 11th place championship finish, ending up on the podium once at Circuit Trois-Rivières.

Claude Corbineau

His two brothers Jean and Hercule also fought in both these wars and together the three men were known as "les trois Horaces" (the three Horatii).

Cobden, Ontario

Cobden is the home town of Susie Laska, former professional hockey player for the NWHL; Lee Fraser, president of Canadians Abroad and Hollywood entertainment executive; Robert Wellington Mayhew, the first Canadian ambassador to Japan, and Brad Pender, Cobden's first professional baseball player with the Trois-Rivières Saints.

Détroit

The music was composed for Wajdi Mouawad's production of a trilogy from Sophocles titled Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des Femmes.

Edmée Favart

She set down records of numbers from Mannequins, Quand on est trois, No, No, Nanette, Le Diable à Paris, Boulard et ses filles, Le Chant du désert and Sidonie Panache.

Floc'h

on a collection of cartoons inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jamais deux sans trois.

François Craenhals

In the 1990s, Craenhals moved to Rivières-de-Theyrargues in the south of France, where he continued drawing his two series until his death in 2004 in Montpellier.

Georges Pichard

Toward the end of his life, Pichard adapted classic erotic stories such as Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan by Guillaume Apollinaire, The Kama-Sutra by Vatsyayana, Trois filles de leur mère by Pierre Louÿs, La Religieuse by Denis Diderot and Germinal by Émile Zola.

Gilbert Houngbo

Houngbo holds an advanced degree in business management from the University of Lomé in Togo, as well as a degree in accounting and finance from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Canada.

Groove Theory

Wilson appeared in the films Beauty Shop, Trois and Hair Show, and produced music for Beyoncé, Amerie and Mary J. Blige.

Guy Leblanc

He also ran as a Liberal candidate in 1998 in the provincial district of Trois-Rivières against Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien.

Laviolette Bridge

The name honours the founder of Trois-Rivières, the Sieur de Laviolette.

Lordship of Champlain

On the territory of the future lordship de Champlain, the first attempt of colonization on land granted by August 16, 1643 at Champlain to Jacques Aubuchon of Trois-Rivières has not resulted mainly because of the remoteness and the Iroquois threat.

Luc-André Bouchard

On February 2, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bouchard Bishop of Trois-Rivières to succeed Bishop Martin Veillette, who reached the age of 75 and, by Canon Law, must submit his resignation to the Pope.

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour (Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Drôme, France, 4 August 1792 – Paris, 3 January 1857) was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris.

Mékinac Lake

Just before the bridge over the Mekinac River, 4.7 km after the village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, turn on Saint-Joseph path towards Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, Quebec (municipality of Trois-Rives, Quebec), a legendary authentic village that was developed through forestry, agriculture and tourist activities.

The distance between the Mekinac bridge (Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac) and the dam of Lake Mekinac (Trois-Rives) is 18.4 km (measured by road).

Pascal Humbert

Humbert and Cantat were also part of a collaborative project for Lebanese-Quebec artist Wajdi Mouawad in Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle (known as Femmes trilogy) within the context of Festival d'Avignon.

Petitcodiac River Campaign

The Petitcodiac is situated between two smaller rivers – the Shepody River (off Shepody Bay) and the Memramcook river (the three bodies of water were often called "Trois-Rivières" by its inhabitants.) Weeks after the Expulsion began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755), the British forces raided villages at Chipoudy and Petitcodiac (Hillsborough, New Brunswick).

Pimlico Mystery

In the famous book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock tells to French New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut that he once intended to make a film about this case, but later on he dropped the idea because Truffaut's film Jules and Jim also dealt with—according to his vision—a ménage à trois.

Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs

The real name of the village is Rabat, but since 1931 the French post office administration has decided that the name has to be labelled as Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs to avoid a confusion with the city of Rabat in Morocco.

Rainforest Films

With this achievement, Rainforest Films landed at the #34 spot of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 500 Film Distributors of 2000, and resulted in Trois being named one of Daily Variety’s Top 50 Highest Grossing Independent Films of the Year.

Richard Béliveau

Richard Béliveau (born 1953 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is currently the director of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory and a researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Notre-Dame Hospital.

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Cathedral

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Paul de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux or Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, in the town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.

Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality

Sept-Rivières (French for "Seven-Rivers") is a regional county municipality of Quebec, Canada, in the Côte-Nord region.

Sylvie Tardif

In 2003 she won a by-election with 76% of the vote, without the blessing of Trois-Rivières Mayor Yves Lévesque.

The Time Runaways Series

The Three Gates (Les trois portes, 1977, Hachette, 2004, Degliame)

Théâtre des Nouveautés

2009: Un oreiller … ou trois? ("One pillow … or three?") by Ray Cooney and Gene Stone, originally Why not stay for breakfast? adapted and translated by Stewart Vaughan and Jean-Claude Islert, starring Delphine Depardieu and Paul Belmondo

Théodore Chassériau

André-Pierre Nouvion, Trois familles en Périgord-Limousin dans la tourmente de la Révolution et de L'Empire : Nouvion, Besse-Soutet-Dupuy et Chassériau, Paris, 2007

Todd Bolender

Describing him in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, she writes: “he was a henpecked husband who constantly escaped into daydreams of sexual conquest. Clad in a vest and long underwear and chewing on a huge cigar, he was the prototype of ... J. Walter Mitty.” Longtime New York City Ballet observer Robert Garis said of him in Agon, “his easy wit and charm in the first pas de trois seem unrecapturable” (ibid.)

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant

The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments (Drome (26), Vaucluse (84), Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)) on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon (diversion canal of the Rhône River) between Valence (70 km upstream) and Avignon (65 km downstream).

Trois

Two further films were produced in the film series, Pandora's Box and The Escort.

Trois 2: Pandora's Box

The studio believed that it was similar in some ways to director Rob Hardy's film Trois and branded it as a franchise.

Trois 2: Pandora's Box (also known as Pandora's Box) is a 2002 erotic thriller written and directed by Rob Hardy.

Trois grandes études

Recordings of the Trois grandes études have been made by Stephanie McCallum (1985), Ronald Smith (1987), Laurent Martin (1993), Marc-André Hamelin (1994), Albert Frantz (2012), and Alessandro Deljavan (2013).

Trois-Rivières Royals

From 1954-1955 they were a Philadelphia Phillies affiliate known as the Trois-Rivières Phillies.

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

It is the first French-language university in North America to offer the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine DPM degree.


see also

Djemila Benhabib

She was the Parti Québécois candidate for Trois-Rivières in the 2012 Quebec general election, but narrowly failed to defeat the sitting member, Danielle St-Amand.

Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte

He was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East in 1848, the son of Joseph-Édouard Turcotte and Flore Buteau, and was educated at the Jesuit-run Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal and the Séminaire Saint-Joseph in Trois-Rivières.

Guy Bacon

Bacon ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Trois-Rivières in 1970, and won against Union Nationale incumbent Gilles Gauthier.

Marc Dos Santos

On November 5, 2008, Dos Santos stepped down as head coach of Trois-Rivières, and accepted an assistant coach position with the Montreal Impact under head coach John Limniatis.

Mouvement national des Québécoises et des Québécois

In 1947, nine of Quebec's SSJB (those of Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Quebec City, Rimouski, Saint-Hyacinthe, Nicolet, Hull, Saint-Jean and Chicoutimi), formed the Fédération des Sociétés Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Québec during a congress in Sherbrooke.

Paul Philibert

He ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Trois-Rivières in 1981, but lost against PQ incumbent Denis Vaugeois.

Pierre Vincent

Pierre H. Vincent, Canadian Member of Parliament for Trois-Rivières, Québec, 1984–1993

Three Rivers Academy

The Three Rivers Academy is an English-language high school in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.

Three Rivers High School

Three Rivers Academy, formerly Three Rivers High School, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada

Waters W. Braman

Waters Whipple Braman (April 20, 1840 Troy, Rensselaer County, New York – December 8, 1893 Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada) was an American politician from New York.