(See also Long Sault, Ontario, Sault St. Louis, Quebec, and Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New Brunswick, three other place names where "sault" also carries...
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Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults. Creation of the Village of Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End from territories taken from the Village of La Côte-Saint-Louis. Creation of the...
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This is a list of forts in New France built by the French government or French chartered companies in what later became Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
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Kahnawake (redirect from Sault Saint-Louis)
1719. Kahnawake was created under what was known as the Seigneurie du Sault-Saint-Louis, a 40,320-acre (163.2 km2) territory which the French Crown granted...
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evident in the implementation of the Sault-au-Récollet's fr:Fort Lorette and the seigneurie Lac-de-Deux-Montagnes' fort. In 1668, several Sulpicians went...
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1678, Dulhut left Montreal for Lake Superior, spending the winter near Sault Sainte Marie and reaching the western end of the lake in the fall of the...
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Chartres Fort de la Montagne, Mont-Royal 1685 – Quebec and home to Governor; mostly destroyed by fire of 1854 Fort du Sault Saint-Louis 1725 Fort Douville...
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included Fort Niagara (1678), Fort Crevecoeur (1680), Fort de Buade (1683), Fort Saint-Louis du Rocher (1683), Fort Saint Antoine (1686), Fort Saint-Joseph...
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possible location of the Roman Saxon Shore fort and harbour named Locus Quartensis sive Hornensis. Saint-Vérain Saissac Sarralbe Sarrebourg Saumur, Maine-et-Loire...
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Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and St. Ignace, Michigan. The city has many sites showing its rich history in the region. Prairie du Chien is near...
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carpenters and masons. They built the new fort, known as New Biloxi (Nouveau-Biloxi) and also as Fort Louis. In 1719, Fort Maurepas (at Old Biloxi) was burned;...
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Maisonneuve, founded Fort Ville-Marie which is now known as Montreal. Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette founded Sault Sainte Marie (1668) and Saint Ignace (1671)...
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Canada (New France) (section Domaine du roy)
forts were built such as Fort Kaministiquia in 1679 (at modern Thunder Bay, Ontario), Fort Frontenac in 1673 (today's Kingston, Ontario), Fort Saint Pierre...
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The fort, in use between 1642 and 1674, was demolished in 1688 and the entire settlement was walled and bastioned during the Indian war. The Louis-Hector...
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Rivière-des-Mille-Îles Rivière-du-Nord Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Saint-Jean Saint-Laurent Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel Saint-Maurice—Champlain...
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Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec...
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Sault-au-Récollet mission established in 1696. This culminated in the King of France in 1718 granting the Sulpicians a concession named seigneurie du...
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University. Samuel de Champlain chose the Upper Town as the site for Fort Saint Louis in 1608. It has remained the city's military and administrative centre...
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World and St. James the Greater (Basilique cathédrale de Marie-Reine-du-Monde et de Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur), built in 1894. Previously the diocese had five...
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Notre-Dame-du-Cap [fr], Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Marie-Reine-du-Monde de Montréal Basilica-Cathedral, Saint-Michel Basilica-Cathedral, and Saint-Patrick's...
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Ahuntsic-Cartierville (section Sault-au-Récollet)
Sault-au-Récollet still retains its village atmosphere with many houses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It was the original site of Fort Lorette...
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of New France. 1660 - Dollard des Ormeaux dies at Long Sault on the Ottawa River. 1661 - Louis XIV puts his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert in charge of...
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Rivière-du-Nord Terrebonne Thérèse-De Blainville Total: 78 Northern Ontario (9) Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing Kenora Nickel Belt Nipissing—Timiskaming Sault Ste...
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Saint Louis, Fort Ouiatenon, Fort Miami (Michigan), Fort Miami (Indiana), Fort Saint Joseph, Fort La Baye, Fort de Buade, Fort Saint Antoine, Fort Crevecoeur...
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"peninsula") Presque Isle County Reno Township River Rouge Saint Clair Haven Saint Clair Shores Sans Souci Sault Ste. Marie ("St. Mary's Rapids") Sebille Manor St...
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inaccurate maps and navigational issues led him to instead establish his Fort Saint Louis in what is now Texas. The colony was devastated by disease, and the...
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municipality of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Not to be confused with the current municipality of Saint-Louis Not to be confused with the current municipality of Saint-Michel...
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Louis-Hébert Louis-Saint-Laurent Manicouagan Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Mégantic—L'Érable Montcalm Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup (Rivière-du-Loup—Montmagny...
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(renamed Hull—Aylmer in 1984) Joliette Jonquière Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup Labelle Lac-Saint-Jean Lachine Langelier Laprairie (renamed La Prairie in 1980)...
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Chevrières de Saint-Vallier (1688–1727) Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay (1727–1733) Pierre-Herman Dosquet (1733–1739) François-Louis de Pourroy de...
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