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    Detroit–Windsor Tunnel, and the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel connect the cities. The river's English name comes from the French Rivière du Détroit...
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    French word détroit meaning 'strait' as the city was situated on a narrow passage of water linking the two lakes. The river was known as le détroit du Lac...
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    Détroit · 14690, France". Le Détroit · 14690, France. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Détroit....
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    La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur (French pronunciation: [la ʁivjɛʁ sɛ̃ sovœʁ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department and Normandy region of north-western France...
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    (June 14, 2000).Detroit's Water Works Park a gateway to the past . The Detroit News. Retrieved on January 31, 2010. "La rivière du Détroit depuis le lac...
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  • Grande-Rivière (Great River) or variation, may refer to: Big Tracadie River (French: Grande rivière Tracadie), a river in northeastern New Brunswick Grande...
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    the city of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada celebrates its founding every July 4, having been founded on July 4, 1634. Trois-Rivières was also the site...
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  • Kamouraska L'Assomption Montmagny Montreal Québec Tadoussac Trois-Rivières Varennes Verchères Détroit La Baye Sainte-Marie among the Hurons Saint-Ignace Sault-Sainte-Marie...
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    River Rouge, Michigan (category Michigan populated places on the Detroit River)
    River Rouge (/rɪˈvɜːr ruːʒ/, French: Rivière Rouge, lit. 'red river') is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,224...
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    of Askin's land. History of Belle River, 1874-1974 (Histoire de Belle Rivière, 1874-1974). Tecumseh, Ont.: Tribune Print. and Pub. Co., 1974. pp. 7–9...
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    such as the Grand fleuve de Hochelaga and the Grande rivière du Canada, where fleuve and rivière are two French words (fleuve being a river that flows...
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    (1750). In 1701, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which became the center of French military presence in the region. Other...
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    Joseph Island, Ontario on Lake Huron), Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (1701) (today's Detroit, Michigan), Fort Michilimackinac (1715) (on the Straits of...
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    in the Michigan Territory as early as 1830 by the French, who named it Rivière aux Signes (Swan Creek). By 1836, several sawmills were built along the...
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  • Ordinance Department of the former Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It was one of a series of mounds in Detroit, including the Springwells Mound Group, the...
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    Pete Bellefeuille (category Ice hockey people from Trois-Rivières)
    Toronto Maple Leafs, and Detroit Cougars between 1925 and 1930. In 1963, Bellefeuille was coaching a hockey team in Trois-Rivieres. "The St. Maurice Valley...
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    Manon Rhéaume (category Trois-Rivières Draveurs players)
    International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. Rhéaume was signed to the Trois-Rivières Draveurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, one of Canada's top...
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  • Inlet; there is also a Round Rocks Island) Île Ronde (Îles Laval), in the Rivière des Prairies, Quebec Robert Island (Paracel Islands), also known as Round...
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    areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the west and the Lieu-dit La Rivière in Ver-sur-Mer on the east. High cliffs at the western end of the zone...
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  • la) Chasseneige (Mont) Chasseurs (Rivière des) Château d'If (Le) Château-Gaillard Chaton (Îlot du) Chicanes (Rivière des) Chionis (Port du) Claire (La...
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    Ecorse, Michigan (category Metro Detroit)
    in the last two decades of the 18th century, they named the waterway "Rivière Aux Échorches", which means "The River of the Barks" in English. In 1836...
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  • Battle of River Canard (French Bataille de Rivière aux Canards) was the site of an engagement between British and American forces on July 16, 1812, during...
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    45.06889; -73.34194 Lacolle Mills Blockhouse (French: Blockhaus de la Rivière-Lacolle) is a blockhouse and museum located alongside the Lacolle River...
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  • at Helmingham Park 1830 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Écluse sur la rivière Stour 1812 Department of Paintings of the Louvre Vue de Hampstead Heath ;...
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    demolition charge into its rear entrance. A second casemated emplacement at La Rivière containing an 88 mm gun had been neutralised by a tank at 07:30. Meanwhile...
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  • d'énergie de la Baie James (1987). Le complexe hydroélectrique de La Grande Rivière. Réalisation de la première phase (in French). Montreal: Société d'énergie...
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    Glacier Lamé Watercourses Arve Rivière du Château Clarée Rivière de l'Est Rivière des Galets Rivière des Sables Rivière des Six Lacs Principal Lakes Lac...
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  • Launch year Auguste Piccard Swiss Transport Museum Lucerne Lucerne Switzerland 1964 F.-A. Forel La Maison de la Rivière Tolochenaz Vaud Switzerland 1978...
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    among them, and Franklin saw mail service expanded between Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Quebec City, and New York. For the greater part of his appointment, he...
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    region. During this time the GTR extended its line to Lévis further east to Rivière-du-Loup. By 1860, the Grand Trunk was on the verge of bankruptcy and in...
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