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Namur town hall. Namur (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Papineau Regional County Municipality. It is nicknamed "la Nouvelle Belgique" (New Belgium). [4] The vast majority of the local population lives off the timber industry, which is marked by the Loggers Summer Festival.
Originally, the La Grande River drained an area of 97,400 km 2 (37,600 sq mi), and had a mean discharge of 1,690 m 3 /s (60,000 cu ft/s). [1] Since the 1980s, when hydroelectric development diverted the Eastmain and Caniapiscau rivers into the La Grande, its total catchment area has increased to about 175,000 km 2 (68,000 sq mi) , with its mean ...
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By 1795, the seignory was owned by Charles Robin, whose company established fishery operations in Grande-Rivière, opening a fish processing plant in 1828. [1] [5] In 1840, the Parish of Assomption-de-Notre-Dame-de-la-Grande-Rivière was founded. In 1845, the Municipality of Grande-Rivière was created, abolished in 1847, and reestablished in 1855.
Grande Hermine (French: [ɡʁɑ̃d ɛʁmin]; "great ermine") was the name of the carrack that brought Jacques Cartier to Saint-Pierre on 15 June 1535, and upon which he discovered the estuary of the St. Lawrence River and the St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement of Stadacona (near current-day Quebec City).
From km 317 (gas station and restaurant), the highway is now paved all the way to km 495. Starting at km 495, the "Fire Lake Mine Road" section was built by unemployed workers during a labour dispute, influenced by the presence of the railway owned by the Québec Cartier Mining Company. This section of unpaved road is notoriously known as "the ...
The Témiscaming Garden City plan, designed by Scottish architect Thomas Adams (1871–1940) is a rare example in Quebec of a mono-industrial city where a company planned and endeavoured to grant comfort of its workers. There, the dwellings, and even the plan, which follows the shape of the hill, was not alone to grant this comfort, elements as ...
Grande-Entrée (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d ɑ̃tʁe]) is a village in the municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine. It is located on Grande Entrée Island (Île de la Grande Entrée), part of the Magdalen Islands archipelago, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. The village is made up of two points of land facing each other which ...