The course of the river flows through seven municipalities (or cities): Hemmingford, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington (where it flows eastward) Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Napierville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Saint-Luc and Acadia sector), Carignan and Chambly.
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The Acadia river takes it source from some streams at the foot of mountains near the Canada-United States border in the Hemmingford Township at Hemmingford.
Acton Vale, Quebec, an industrial town in south-central Quebec, Canada
For the municipality in Quebec, see Adstock, Quebec
He subsequently moved to Canada and currently lives in Val-David, Quebec.
She was born Alice Sarah Rollit in Rawdon, Quebec, Canada on September 20, 1858 to John Charles Rollit and Elizabeth (née Spooner) Rollit.
Several battles have been fought at or near the town of Lacolle, Quebec, Canada.
Belgh Brasse is a Quebec micro-brewery located in Amos, in the Abitibi region of Northwestern Quebec.
He was the resident engineer for the city of Westmount (1893-1896) and finally entered into private practice and remained as such until 1916.
Canada Car Company was a railcar manufacturer based in Turcot, Quebec (a suburb in Montreal), and later merged with several other companies to form Canadian Car and Foundry in 1909.
It was held on July 1 at the Circuit Mont-Tremblant, in Saint-Jovite, Quebec, Canada.
Born in Aylmer, Quebec, Charlie Major knew he wanted to be a musician since he was 19 years old.
The series originally only had two parts but it was expanded into 6 parts and re-aired in 2003 on Télé-Québec.
Claude Bourbonnais (born June 24, 1965, L'Île-Perrot, Quebec), is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series.
The company's principal manufacturing facility is located in Montreal, Quebec, with additional facilities located in Ottawa, Ontario and Sugar Grove, Illinois.
As a result of the war, Maine fell to the New Englanders with the defeat of Father Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to St. Francis and Becancour, Quebec.
In 1778, when refugees started arriving from across the border, with the marked approval of the now Governor of Canada, his old friend Sir Frederick Haldimand, Gugy erected dwellings and a school on his seigneuries at Yamachiche, Quebec, to house them.
In November 2011, the Town entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Auberge et Spa Le Nordik Inc. of Chelsea, Quebec.
In 1997, Crosby was appointed Bishop of Labrador City-Schefferville and, in 2003, was appointed as the Bishop of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Created in 2006 when TECO purchase the assets for the bankrupt MIL-Davie, the new Canadian unit is based in Lauzon, Quebec.
He worked as a carpenter and also carved wooden objects for the church at Saint-Denis.
Financial difficulties caused his parents to move to Canada and settle on a farm near Melbourne, Quebec, when Macleay was 16.
Rose was born in Stanstead, Quebec, and graduated from Chauncy Hall School in Boston in 1881, and studied for two years at Harvard University.
Award of Excellence recipients include Robert Boyd, who brought engineering and managing excellence to Hydro-Québec's $15-billion James Bay project, Fazlur
He was also a municipal councillor for the municipality of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton as well as a school commissionner for the Saint-Hyacinthe School Board.
On January 20, 2012, Evanov announced that Dufferin applied with the CRTC to establish a new Soft AC station in Hudson, Quebec, a western suburb of Montreal; the new station would broadcast at 106.7 MHz at 500 watts at 94 metres HAAT.
Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.
Fatback is a traditional part of southern US cuisine, soul food and traditional Cuisine of Quebec, where it is used for fried pork rinds (known there as cracklings, or Oreilles de crisse in Quebec), and to flavor stewed vegetables such as greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas.
He was born in L'Assomption in 1784, the son of François-Antoine Larocque, and studied at the Collège de Montréal.
Born in Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), Lower Canada, Couture was elected to the Lévis municipal council in 1865.
Greenfield Park, Quebec, a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec and a suburb of Montreal
Grosse Isle, Quebec, an island where many Irish Immigrants to Canada were housed and the site of the Grosse Isle Disaster
In March 1999, Major L.G. d'Artois, a hero in war and peace, died in the Veterans Hospital in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
Gartner grew up in Chomedey, Laval, and was educated at Loyola College (now Concordia University), in Montreal Quebec.
He later went on to win the bronze medal in the 2001 Francophone Games in Hull, Quebec, Canada.
He was born in Saint-Denis, the son of seigneur Jacques-Hyacinthe Simon dit Delorme and Marie-Anne Crevier Décheneaux.
The high repute he had gained among the various tribes was responsible for his recall, in 1670, to take charge of La Prairie, the Christian settlement near Montreal where the converted Indians had been gathered, and it was he who placed this refuge on a solid footing and eliminated the liquor traffic.
Born in Lotbinière, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1948 and a Master of Commerce degree in 1949 from Université Laval.
Born in the asbetos mining town of Asbestos, Quebec, he had three brothers: Elewyn, Lloyd, and Arthur.
Joseph Miville Dechene was born on October 22, 1879 in Chambord, Quebec.
He was born into an upper-class family in the village of L'Assomption, then in Lower Canada.
He was born in Sainte-Monique, Canada East, the son of Félix Descoteaux and Marie-Thérèse Manseau.
Born in Hemmingford, Lower Canada (now Quebec), the son of John Scriver and Lucretia Manning, he studied at the Workman's School in Montreal and the University of Vermont.
Legislative revisions in 1975 allowed the Bank to open a branch in Granby, Quebec, its first branch outside the Montreal region.
Gough is married, has a little boy, and lives in both Guelph, Ontario, and Wakefield, Quebec.
Quebec, however, still retains a civil system for issues of private law (as this domain falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces).
Léon Abel Provancher (b. 10 March 1820, in the parish of Bécancour, Nicolet County, Quebec; d. at Cap-Rouge, Quebec, 23 March 1892) was a Canadian Catholic parish priest and naturalist.
He was among the first to take part in the agitation in Canada against the British government, was present at the assembly of the six confederate counties at St. Charles, 23 October 1837, and left the meeting convinced that insurrection was the only remedy for Canadian grievances.
Malartic, Quebec, a town on the Malartic River in northwestern Quebec, Canada.
Among the first settlers of Maple Falls was Herbert Everant Leavitt, a native of Melbourne, Quebec, Canada.
Marie-Claude Bourbonnais (born October 15, 1979 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec) is a Canadian glamour and cosplay model.
Maurice James Harquail (born 2 December 1938 in Matapédia, Quebec) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.
It ceased to exist on July 30, 1997 (or August 20, 1997, upon publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec) when it was split into the modern-day administrative regions of Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec.
Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School is an all-girls school located in Westmount, Quebec.
The Montreal Oral School for the Deaf (MOSD) is a provincial school in Westmount, Quebec, Canada with programs serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Lac-Mégantic's municipal library, assembled from over a hundred thousand donated books after fire destroyed the original library during 2013's Lac-Mégantic derailment, is named « La Médiathèque municipale Nelly-Arcan » in her honour.
Normand Laprise was born in 1961 and raised on a farm in Kamouraska in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec.
Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, a former city that is now part of Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac
Recognized Algonquin communities include: Amos (Pikogan), Cadillac, Grand Lac Victoria, Hunter's Point, Kipawa (Eagle Village), Notre Dame du Nord (Timiskaming), Rapid Lake (Barriere Lake), Rapid Sept, Lac Simon, Québec, Winneway (Long Point).
Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, is a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers
He was born from the union of two teachers, one from Cacouna, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec and another from the Mediterranean coast.
He later set up his own business and had moved to Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu by 1783.
The Regional County Municipality of Portneuf was constituted as a regional administrative entity on November 25, 1981 by a Provincial decree creating the supralocal Regional County Municipality administration based on the (...) and therefore replacing the previously existing historic Portneuf County Corporation.
The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.
Founding the Living Rivers Program in Tabusintac, New Brunswick, QLF established what would become one of QLF's hallmarks: cross border, community-based conservation and stewardship programs aimed at both young people and established conservation professionals.
Quebec West, a former federal electoral district in the area of Quebec City
At the age of 20, Chris Waddle was working in Quebec's former meat factory, Hamsteels Frozen Foods, when he was signed by Newcastle United in 1980 from nearby Northern League side Tow Law Town for £1,000.
Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791 is a book (ISBN 0-7710-6658-9) by Canadian historian Dr. Hilda Neatby published in 1966 in both the French and English languages as part of The Canadian Centenary Series.
RCAF Mont Apica (later Canadian Forces Station or CFS Mont Apica) (ADC ID: C-1) was a radar station of the Pinetree Line, located in Mont-Apica, Quebec, Canada, during the Cold War.
The provinces of Quebec and Ontario disputed the constitutionality of the Act, as they believed it intruded into provincial jurisdiction with respect to property and civil rights.
We do know that he became a master woodcarver by 1812 and did extensive work in the church at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville which included some carpentry, woodcarving, and gilding as well as the structure housing the altar, rood-loft, cornice, and vaulting of this building.
A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name "Boulevard Dorchester", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as "Rue Dorchester."
Geren led pre-production studies and became Manager of IOCC's operations at Schefferville, where he faced numerous challenges associated with building a large mining operation in isolated sub-Arctic conditions.
Roxboro, Quebec, now part of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Roxton Pond, Quebec, a municipality in La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality
The Saint-Hyacinthe Chiefs was a minor hockey team based in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, which is now defunct.
Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Montérégie, Quebec a former parish municipality in south-west Quebec which now forms part of the municipality of Saint-Chrysostome, Quebec
Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Lévis, Quebec, a former city in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, since 2002 a district within Les-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of Lévis, Quebec
Saint-Stanislas, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec in Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality
This "exchange code protection" made it possible in some low or moderate-density areas to use seven digits to reach areas in another area code (such as Hull from Ottawa before 2006, as every Ottawa-Hull local number originally was reserved in both 613 and 819).
He then studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery and set up practice in Saint-Constant, later moving to Saint-Henri.
The museum's collection of over 65,000 objects and specimens represents the diversity of the fauna and flora of Quebec, Canada as well as elsewhere in North America and around the world.
It was first described in 1981 for an occurrence in the Jeffrey quarry of the Johns-Manville mine, Asbestos, Estrie, Québec.
Black Jack was originally a logging tug on the Upper Ottawa River and was based in Quyon, Quebec.
The Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval is a trade union representing blue-collar workers in Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Later that year, Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis of Québec wrote to Pius VII and to Brzozowski, begging that Jesuits be sent from Great Britain not only for Halifax but to work among the aboriginal people in Upper Canada as well.
Born in Hull, Quebec, Ted Dey was one of three brothers and two sisters born to Joseph Dey and Annie Buckley.
Thermalite safety fuses and connectors were manufactured in Quebec by ICA Canada Inc., however in November 1995 they ceased manufacturing of detonator cord.
He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.
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Thomas Craig Fields (November 9, 1825 St. Lawrence County, New York – January 25, 1885 Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Born in Melbourne, Quebec, the son of Melbourne McTaggart Tait, Tait entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1880, and by 1903 he was manager of transportation with Canadian Pacific Railway company.
The idea is attributed to Ruggles Wright who introduced the first one in 1829 not far from what is today down-town Hull, Quebec, Canada.
Born in Liverpool, Walmsley came to Canada with his family in 1952, and was raised in Oshawa, Ontario and Lorraine, Quebec.
The duo joined forces in 2003 in order to compete in the provincial talent contest "Cégeps en Spectacle", where they won both the jury's and public vote's prizes in Hull, 2004.
According to the Civil Code of Quebec, an action for breach of trade secrets or confidential business information generally arises either from a contractual liability action (article 1458) or, in the absence of a contract, from a civil liability action (article 1457).
The fetal rights were said to be anchored in the rights to life in the Canadian Charter, the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and the Civil Code of Quebec.
Other localities for vlasovite include the volcanic Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Township, Quebec and the Strange Lake Complex in Labrador.
; Largest vertical-axis: Le Nordais wind farm in Cap-Chat, Quebec has a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) named Éole, which is the world's largest at 110 m.
In 1963, a group of prominent Canadians met for three days at the Seigneury Club in Montebello, Quebec.
In 2002 Zarlink sold its foundry in Bromont, Quebec, Canada to Dalsa Corporation, and its wafer fabrication facility in Plymouth, UK to X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG.
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August 8: Madeleine de Verchères, daughter of François Jarret, a seigneur in New France, and Marie Perrot (b.1678); Madeline (alt spelling) achieved recognition when, as a young girl, she successfully fought off Iroquois attackers and helped to save Fort Vercheres (Quebec).
Following a smoke bomb incident on Montreal Metro subway, student activists from the Université du Québec à Montréal threatened to prevent the race from going ahead as part of ongoing demonstrations across Quebec.
The 2003 Quebec election itself happened over the backdrop of the war in Iraq.
In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.
He is currently in the television show Tactik aired on Télé-Québec in the role of Carl Bresson.
Caillé affirmed he voted Yes in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, but stated he presently believes the ADQ's autonomist policy is more concurrent with the feelings of Quebecers.
One of its leading churches is Jarvis Street Baptist Church of Toronto, Ontario, whose well-known pastor of 45 years, Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873–1955), led fundamentalist forces in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec during the fundamentalist/modernist controversies in the first half of the 20th century.
A clause in the Charlottetown Accord that would have recognized the province of Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, aboriginal rights, sex equality and other principles; or
Centennial Regional High School, a multi-campus English language high school in Quebec
In 2001, he published the book My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Expos, which blamed Quebec ex-premier Lucien Bouchard for the sale of the baseball team.
It is the first college organization to make educational content available on this distribution platform, and the third educational institution in Quebec to join, after University of Montreal and McGill University.
Charles Cormier (1813 – 1887), a Quebec businessman and political figure
Ross K. Ladd is a former civil servant and an anglophone rights activist from Cowansville in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
Éric Gauthier is a quebecois author who was born in 1975 in Rouyn-Noranda, in the Abitibi region of Quebec.
Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey player Bill Barilko and his dentist Henry Hudson disappeared on August 26, 1951, aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane, flying from Seal River, Quebec.
In 1964, he was candidate for president of the Quebec Federation of Labour (Fédération des travailleurs du Québec - FTQ); Louis Laberge was elected president and Daoust was elected vice-president.
In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).
Gerald "Gerry" Joseph Heffernan (July 24, 1916 in Montreal, Quebec – January 16, 2007 in Moraga, California) was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.
The following month, the National Assembly of Quebec approved a bill to restrict the franchise in school board elections, such that only Catholics and Protestants would be able to vote in elections for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, respectively.
Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (1923–2012), former Member of Parliament of Canada and also Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party for Iberville electoral division
He successfully persuaded Chirac to keep quiet during the 1980 Quebec referendum, though Chirac personally supported an independent Quebec like General Charles de Gaulle.
He was born in Montreal and studied at Concordia University.
With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.
Jean-Pierre Isaac has written and/or produced music for many artists, notably the French Gilbert Montagné, Quebec’s Mitsou, Les BB, Celine Dion, Cindy Daniel, Marie Carmen, Mario Pelchat, Judith Berard, Scripture (his solo project featured on "Cafe del Mar", and released album No Word Needed), and many more.
Briefly after TQS, a Quebec-based TV network, announced that it would abolish its information services division, Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec.
He worked for a number of years as a TV hockey analyst for Québec's Le Réseau des sports (RDS), also producing and hosting his own show called "L'Académie de hockey McDonald".
Joseph Gibb Robertson (1820–1899), Scottish-born merchant, farmer and political figure in Quebec
L'Église Réformée du Québec, or "Reformed Church of Quebec", is a small conservative French-speaking Reformed Christian denomination located primarily within the Canadian province of Quebec.
War of 1812: Les Voltigeurs de Québec perpetuate the Provincial Corps of Light Infantry (Canadian Voltigeurs), the 1st and 2nd Battalions (City of Quebec) (1812–15), the Beauport Division (1812–15) and the 6th Battalion, Select Embodied Militia.
Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Canadian merchant and political figure from Quebec
On September 9, 1949, Rita Guay was scheduled to board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, at L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City, Quebec, where it made a scheduled stopover during a flight from Montreal to Baie-Comeau.
The most recent releases by the band are Nine for Victor, a recording from a live performance in Quebec & a 2007 deluxe reissue of the band's privately issued "Live at Ken's Electric Lake" originally released a decade earlier (and with a first gatefold photo of the band by Sara Press).
Daniel Boyer : Secrétaire général de la (FTQ) (Vice-President of the Québec Federation of Labour)
The pharmacy schools in Quebec (at the University of Montreal and Laval University) now offer only the PharmD degree that involves two years of basic sciences and four years of pharmacy education, similar to many programs in the United States.
Philippe Hamel (October 12, 1884 – January 22, 1954) was a nationalist and progressive politician in Quebec, Canada.
Pierre-Vincent Valin (1827–1897), Canadian businessman and political figure from Quebec
Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien in Quebec rescued the pair as they were not expected to survive in the wilderness alone.
Route 205 is a two-lane north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.
Other incidents caused oxygen-fueled flames to burst out from the boats, which led to their crews to nickname them zazhigalka ("lighters") or Zippos after the well-known cigarette lighter.
Directed by Ricardo Trogi, the film focuses on nine people, all on the cusp of turning 30 and dealing with complex questions about life and love, whose lives intersect on four separate road trips from Quebec City to Montreal along Quebec Autoroute 20.
On March 19, Samson declared himself to be the leader of a new créditiste group, and demanded to be seated in the National Assembly as a member of the "Registered Ralliement créditiste du Québec"', along with two other créditiste MNAs, Aurèle Audet (Abitibi-Ouest) and Bernard Dumont (Mégantic).
Ranunculus allenii was first described by American botanist Benjamin Lincoln Robinson in 1905, who noted collections in Quebec and Labrador, the first being by one John Alpheus Allen on 23rd July 1881 on Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula.
In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and was elected to the Federal Parliament in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.
Saint-Henri, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, a municipality of Quebec in the vicinity of Lévis
Thicke been added as a supporting act on Alicia Keys’ The Freedom Tour tour, kicking off on February 28, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with stops at Madison Square Garden and Staples Center.
In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected to the Quebec legislature, a record he held until the 2012 election of Léo Bureau-Blouin; the previous recordholders had been André Boisclair and Claude Charron.
Steven Lett (born 1958) is an American diplomat and current head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec City, the son of William Power and Susan Winifred Rockett, Power was educated at the Commercial Academy of Quebec and the College Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal .