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Chemin Du Portage
The Chemin du Portage is a historic route in Quebec, Canada, between the St. Lawrence River valley and Acadia. First used for portage by Native Americans, and later as a strategic road by French and British colonists, it was upgraded into today's Quebec Route 185 and Quebec Autoroute 85, and forms part of the Trans-Canada Highway. History The shortest land route between Acadia and New France was through the region of Temiscouata, where, in 1746, the French administration built a road that allowed access to Lake Temiscouata, from which the Atlantic Ocean could be reached through a network of rivers. After the conquest of New France by Great Britain, American independence posed a barrier to internal connections between the British possessions, calling for the construction of a route between Canada and the Atlantic provinces. In 1783, the British administration opened, between what is now Notre-Dame-du-Portage and Cabano, a road that, for almost 80 years, was used mainly by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Témiscouata Regional County Municipality
Témiscouata is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is located southeast of Rivière-du-Loup, bordering New Brunswick, and is centred on Lake Témiscouata. Its seat is Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac. Major industries include forestry, agriculture and maple syrup products. Subdivisions There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (3) * Dégelis * Pohénégamook * Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac ;Municipalities (12) * Auclair * Biencourt * Lac-des-Aigles * Lejeune *Rivière-Bleue * Saint-Athanase *Saint-Elzéar-de-Témiscouata *Saint-Honoré-de-Témiscouata * Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande * Saint-Juste-du-Lac *Saint-Michel-du-Squatec *Saint-Pierre-de-Lamy ;Parishes (4) * Packington * Saint-Eusèbe * Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! * Saint-Marc-du-Lac-Long Demographics Population Language Transportation Access routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Ingall
Fort Ingall was originally a British fieldwork built in Cabano, Quebec, Canada in 1839 for the Aroostook War between Great Britain and the United States of America. The site now features a reconstructed 19th-century fort museum containing exhibits about the fort's history and the Aroostook War, as well as artifacts recovered from the site. In season, guided tours demonstrate the soldiers' lives during that time. History In 1839, Lt. Frederick Lenox Ingall was ordered to build a fieldwork on the Lake Temiscouata. In the summer, three barracks, one for the officers, and two for the men were erected near the Lake, at the end of the road from Riviere-du-Loup. A small detachment of the 24th Regiment of Foot arrived in the summer. The detachment consisted of only 12 men with their 6 wives and 11 children. In the following years, the original small fieldwork became a fortified fort of 12 barracks surrounded by a 12-foot stockade. Three other Regiments occupied the Fort between 1839 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabano, Quebec
Cabano is a former city in Témiscouata Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is situated on Lake Témiscouata on Autoroute 85. On May 5, 2010 it merged with Notre-Dame-du-Lac to form the new city of Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac. History At first, Cabano was called ''Poste du Lac'' or ''Fort Ingall''. It became Saint-Mathias-de-Cabano in 1907, then the municipal village of Cabano in 1923, and finally, the city of Cabano in 1962. On May 9, 1950, a major fire destroyed 125 houses in the city. TFI International, Canada's largest trucking company, was founded in Cabano. Notable people * Paul Triquet - Recipient of the Victoria Cross for actions in Italy during the Second World War 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 World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Quebec
Notre-Dame-du-Portage () is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec located at the edge of the Saint Lawrence River in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. It is part of the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and home to the Riviere-du-Loup Golf Club. Main sights Notre-Dame-du-Portage is a member of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec. Its Roman Catholic Church was constructed in 1859. See also * List of municipalities in Quebec References External links Notre-Dame-du-Portage at the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of QuebecNotre-Dame-du-Portage, Quebec Community Demographicsfrom Industry Canada Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED; french: Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada; french: ISDE, label=none)''Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal ... External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Notre-Dame-Du-Portage Incorporated places in Bas- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Temiscouata
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger oceans, they do form part of the Earth's water cycle. Lakes are distinct from lagoons, which are generally coastal parts of the ocean. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which also lie on land, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which usually flow in a channel on land. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams. Natural lakes are generally found in mountainous areas, rift zones, and areas with ongoing glaciation. Other lakes are found in endorheic basins or along the courses of mature rivers, where a river channel has widened into a basin. Some parts of the world have many lakes formed by the chaotic drainage patterns left over from the last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Bourbon Spain, Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Paris. The vast territory of ''New France'' consisted of five colonies at its peak in 1712, each with its own administration: Canada (New France), Canada, the most developed colony, was divided into the districts of Quebec City, Québec, Trois-Rivières, and Montreal, Montréal; Hudson Bay; Acadia, Acadie in the northeast; Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Plaisance on the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland; and Louisiana (New France), Louisiane. It extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian Prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great Lakes of North America. In the 16th century, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway (French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast. The main route spans across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers, although there are small variations in the markers in some provinces. While by definition the Trans-Canada Highway is a highway ''system'' that has several parallel routes throughout most of the country, the term "Trans-Canada Highway" often refers to the main route that consists of Highway 1 (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), Highways 17 and 417 (Ontario), Autoroutes 40, 20 and 85 (Quebec), Highway 2 (New Brunswick), Highways 104 and 105 (Nova Scotia) and Highway 1 (Newfoundland). This mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Autoroute 85
Autoroute 85 is a Quebec Autoroute and the route of the Trans-Canada Highway in the province's Bas-Saint-Laurent region, also known as Autoroute Claude-Béchard. It is currently under construction with committed Federal and Provincial funding for its completion, with an estimated completion date of 2026. Once this upgrade is completed, it will close the last gap in the nearly continuous freeway section of the Trans-Canada between Arnprior, Ontario, and Sutherlands River, Nova Scotia, and for an even longer interprovincial freeway route between Windsor, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Running between Rivière-du-Loup (at a junction with Autoroute 20) and a junction with New Brunswick Route 2 at the Quebec-New Brunswick border, A-85 when complete will be the only controlled access highway link between the Maritime Provinces and the rest of the country. A-85 is projected to be approximately long when construction is complete and is intended to replace Route 185, which has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
