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Tay Canal: Ontario: 9.8 km (6.1 mi) 2 27 m (90 ft) Tay River: Lower Rideau Lake: 1891 Currently operated as a part of the Rideau Canal: Trent-Severn Waterway: Ontario: 386 km (240 mi) 44 26 m (84 ft) Georgian Bay Bay of Quinte 1833 Welland Canal: Ontario: 43 km (27 mi) 8 230 m (740 ft) Lake Ontario (St. Catharines)
Parishes as a land unit division arise from the elevation of municipalities based on religious parish limits (parish municipalities). Quebec's counties were dissolved in the early 1980s and Quebec was then divided into regional county municipalities .
The township of North Glengarry was established on January 1, 1998, with the amalgamation of the former townships of Kenyon and Lochiel, along with the village of Maxville and the town of Alexandria. Demographics
Glengarry County, an area covering 288,688 acres (1,168 km 2), is a county in the province of Ontario, Canada.It is still inhabited by the descendants of 18th and early 19th-century Scottish Highland pioneer settlers from Lochaber, was historically a Gàidhealtachd community, and Canadian Gaelic language revival efforts are currently taking place there.
It has a land area of 872.04 square kilometres (336.70 sq mi) and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the Canada 2011 Census. [4] Its largest community is the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel . Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own census division ; instead, it is grouped ...
Shawinigan (English: / ʃ ə ˈ w ɪ n ɪ ɡ ən /; French: [ʃawiniɡan] ⓘ) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada.It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census.
In 1831, the post office opened. In 1845, the Municipality of Yamachiche was founded but abolished in 1847. It was reestablished in 1855 as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche, with Francois Gerin-Lajoie as first mayor. In 1878, the first train came to Yamachiche, followed by the telegraph in 1880. [1] [4]
The French River flows through typical Canadian Shield country, in many places exposing rugged glaciated rock but also through heavily forested areas on the upper portion. . The mouth of the river contains countless islands and numerous channels which vary from narrow, enclosed steep-walled gorges, falls and rapids, to broad expanses of open wat