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ﾃ四e Aux Perroquets Lighthouse
The ﾃ四e-aux-Perroquets lighthouse (french: Phare de l'ﾃ四e-aux-Perroquets) is a lighthouse on the ﾃ四e aux Perroquets in the Mingan Archipelago, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1951, replacing an 1888 wooden lighthouse. It received heritage designation in 2014. Location The ﾃ四e aux Perroquets Lighthouse is on the ﾃ四e aux Perroquets, an island at the western end of the Mingan Archipelago on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is in the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve, and the Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan municipality. In the Innu-aimun language the island is called ''Utshishtunishekau'', meaning nest-shaped rock. The French name means "parrot island", and refers to the Atlantic puffin, a bird with a brightly colored beak. The island is long and less than wide. It is a rocky plateau about above sea levels. It has steep cliffs, almost vertical on the east side but sloping more gently on the south side. Fauna include the Atlantic puffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingan Archipelago
The Mingan Archipelago is an archipelago located east of Quebec, Canada. It consists of a chain of about 40 islands. Starting but 124 miles from the end of the road along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River (Le Fleuve), the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada spreads about 109 miles eastward as it dots the coastline with over 2,000 islands and islets. To the southwest a 9 to 10 hour drive away lies Quebec City. Due south across a 12-mile channel is Anticosti Island and below Anticosti another 25 miles is the eastern tip of the Gaspe Peninsula. To the east is a roadless coastline all the way to Newfoundland and Labrador. To the north are tundra, lakes, bog and rock. In late June it is still Spring. Politically, most of the islands lie in the town of Havre-Saint-Pierre, but the westernmost of the chain lie in the municipality of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan. Includes ''ﾃ四e Niapiskau'' and its limestone monolith A monolith is a geological feature consisting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phare De L Ile Aux Perroquets 1898
The Phare programme is one of the three pre-accession instruments financed by the European Union to assist the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe in their preparations for joining the European Union. Originally created in 1989 as the Poland and Hungary: Assistance for Restructuring their Economies (PHARE) programme, Phare expanded from Poland and Hungary to cover ten countries. It assisted eight of the ten 2004 accession Member States: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, as well as those countries that acceded in 2007 ( Bulgaria and Romania), in a period of massive economic restructuring and political change. ''Phare'' means ''lighthouse'' in French. Until 2000, countries of the Western Balkans ( Albania, North Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina) were also beneficiaries of Phare. However, as of 2001, the CARDS programme (Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stability in the Balkans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks Canada
Parks Canada (PC; french: Parcs Canada),Parks Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Parks Canada Agency (). is the agency of the Government of Canada which manages the country's 48 National Parks, three National Marine Conservation Areas, 172 National Historic Sites, one National Urban Park, and one National Landmark. Parks Canada is mandated to "protect and present nationally significant examples of Canada's natural and cultural heritage, and foster public understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment in ways that ensure their ecological and commemorative integrity for present and future generations". The agency also administers lands and waters set aside as potential national parklands, including 10 National Park Reserves and one National Marine Conservation Area Reserve. More than of lands and waters in national parks and national marine conservation areas has been set aside for such purposes. Parks Canada cooperatively manages a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoclassical Architecture
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing styles of architecture in most of Europe for the previous two centuries, Renaissance architecture and Baroque architecture, already represented partial revivals of the Classical architecture of ancient Rome and (much less) ancient Greek architecture, but the Neoclassical movement aimed to strip away the excesses of Late Baroque and return to a purer and more authentic classical style, adapted to modern purposes. The development of archaeology and published accurate records of surviving classical buildings was crucial in the emergence of Neoclassical architecture. In many countries, there was an initial wave essentially drawing on Roman architecture, followed, from about the start of the 19th century, by a second wave of Greek Revival architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries窶琶ncluding all of the great powers窶杷orming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diaphone
The diaphone is a noisemaking device best known for its use as a foghorn: It can produce deep, powerful tones, able to carry a long distance. Although they have fallen out of favor, diaphones were also used at some fire stations and in other situations where a loud, audible signal was required. History The diaphone horn was based directly on the organ stop of the same name invented by Robert Hope-Jones, creator of the Wurlitzer organ. Hope-Jones' design was based on a piston that was closed only at its bottom end and had slots, perpendicular to its axis, cut through its sides; the slotted piston moved within a similarly slotted cylinder. Outside of the cylinder was a reservoir of high-pressure air. Initially, high-pressure air would be admitted behind the piston, pushing it forward. When the slots of the piston aligned with those of the cylinder, air passed into the piston, making a sound and pushing the piston back to its starting position, whence the cycle would repeat. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cﾃｴte-Nord
Cﾃｴte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Quﾃｩbec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadoussac. While most of the region is in the same time zone as the rest of Quebec, the far eastern portion east of the 63rd meridian, excluding the Minganie Regional County Municipality, is officially in the Atlantic Time Zone and does not observe daylight saving time. Population At the 2016 Canadian Census, the population amounted to 92,518, approximately 1.1% of the province's population, spread across 33 municipalities, various Indian reserves and a Naskapi reserved land. The towns of Baie-Comeau and Sept-ﾃ四es, Quebec, Sept-ﾃ四es combined amount to a little more than half of the population of the region. Geography and economy Cﾃｴte-Nord was created as an administrative region in 1966. Important landmarks of Cﾃｴte-Nord include Anticost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placide Vigneau
Placide Vigneau (29 August 1842 竏 1 March 1926 was a French Canadian author. He was keeper of the ﾃ四e aux Perroquets Lighthouse from 1892 to 1912. He kept a journal that is preserved by the Bibliothﾃｨque et Archives nationales du Quﾃｩbec. Life Placide Vigneau was born on ﾃ四e du Havre aux Maisons, on the Magdalen Islands in Canada East on August 29, 1842. His parents were Vital Vigneau, an offshore fisherman of Acadian descent, and ﾃ瑛ise Boudreau. He spent his childhood on the Magdalen Islands, where he learned the job of offshore fisherman. In 1858, the family moved to the village of Pointe-aux-Esquimaux (now Havre-Saint-Pierre) on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River. In 1892 he became the lighthouse keeper of ﾃ四e aux Perroquets until 1912, when his son Hector succeeded him. His ''Histoire'' or ''Journal de la Pointe aux Esquimaux'' was published in the Report of the Archives du Quﾃｩbec (1968), and then as a work under the title ''Un pied d'ancre : journal de P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gﾃｩdﾃｩon Ouimet
Gﾃｩdﾃｩon Ouimet (June 2, 1823 窶 April 23, 1905) was a French-Canadian politician. Born in what is today part of the city of Laval, Quebec Canada, Ouimet served as the second premier of Quebec from February 26, 1873 to September 22, 1874. He resigned as party leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec in 1874 because of the Tanneries scandal which implicated the government of Quebec. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1895. He died in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in 1905. The Quebec town of Grandmont changed its name to Saint-Gﾃｩdﾃｩon in honour of Ouimet. A bridge on Highway 15 (Laurentian) was also named after him; the bridge crosses the Riviﾃｨre des Mille ﾃ四es. It connects the municipality of Laval to the northern shore in what is now known as the town of Boisbriand. See also *Politics of Quebec *List of Quebec general elections *Timeline of Quebec history *List of presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal This is a list of presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry De Puyjalon
Henry de Puyjalon (15 March 1841, in Floirac, Lot, France 窶 18 August 1905, in l'ﾃｮle ﾃ la Chasse, Havre-Saint-Pierre, Mingan Archipelago, Canada) was a late 19th-century scientist and explorer. He explored the north coast of the Saint Lawrence River, and was one of the first Canadian ecologists to suggest wildlife and marine conservation areas. Puyjalon graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toulouse and emigrated to Quebec in 1874. He became a hunter, trapper, ornithologist, geologist and naturalist, and in 1880, a Quebec government employee with the task to explore for mineral wealth within Labrador. He became a Canadian citizen in 1888, and for the next three years the lighthouse keeper of Parrot Island on the Mingan Archipelago. In 1897 Puyjalon was appointed Quebec's Inspector General of Fisheries and Wildlife, and used this position to encourage the government to establish protected marine areas and to publicise the dangers of over-exploita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catoptrics
Catoptrics (from grc-gre, ﾎｺﾎｱﾏﾎｿﾏﾏﾏ∃ｹﾎｺﾏ狐 ''katoptrikﾃｳs'', "specular", from grc-gre, ﾎｺﾎｬﾏﾎｿﾏﾏﾏ∃ｿﾎｽ ''katoptron'' "mirror") deals with the phenomena of reflected light and image-forming optical systems using mirrors. A catoptric system is also called a ''catopter'' (''catoptre''). Ancient texts ''Catoptrics'' is the title of two texts from ancient Greece: *The Pseudo-Euclidean ''Catoptrics''. This book is attributed to Euclid, although the contents are a mixture of work dating from Euclid's time together with work which dates to the Roman period., accessed 31 January 2013 It has been argued that the book may have been compiled by the 4th century mathematician Theon of Alexandria. The book covers the mathematical theory of mirrors, particularly the images formed by plane and spherical concave mirrors. *Hero's ''Catoptrics''. Written by Hero of Alexandria, this work concerns the practical application of mirrors for visual effects. In the Middle Ages, this work was fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gull
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus ''Larus'', but that arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mews, which is cognate with German ''Mﾃｶwe'', Danish ''mﾃ･ge'', Swedish ''mﾃ･s'', Dutch ''meeuw'', Norwegian ''mﾃ･ke''/''mﾃ･se'' and French ''mouette'', and can still be found in certain regional dialects. Gulls are typically medium to large in size, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls; stout, longish bills; and webbed feet. Most gulls are ground-nesting carnivores which take live food or scavenge opportunistically, particularly the ''Larus'' species. Live food often includes crustac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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