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The Fort de Chillon is a twentieth-century fortification directly adjacent to the medieval Château de Chillon on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The fort secures the road and rail lines that pass along the lakeshore running east from Lausanne to the mountainous interior of Switzerland.
The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company .
La Cloche Provincial Park is a provincial park at the boundary of Algoma and Sudbury Districts in Ontario, Canada. [2] The park consists of an unspoiled section of the La Cloche Mountains that stretch along the North Channel of Georgian Bay, as well as several islands in the channel (which are mostly part of Manitoulin District).
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Fort de Champillon; Fort de Chillon; M. Mueterschwanderberg This page was ...
Historic North American French forts in northern New France — present day Canada Further information: List of French forts in North America Pages in category "French forts in Canada"
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In 1683, Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, established a fur trading post on Lake Nipigon named Fort la Tourette after his brother, Claude Greysolon, Sieur de la Tourette. The Alexis Hubert Jaillot map of 1685 ( Partie de la Nouvelle-France ) [ 14 ] suggests that this fort was somewhere in Ombabika Bay at the northeast end of the lake where the ...