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  Immigration-Québec - The Abitibi-Témiscamingue region at a glance
Five hundred kilometres from Montréal and the Outaouais, Abitibi-Témiscamingue is located north of the Laurentides and Outaouais regions, south of the Nord-du-Québec, west of the Mauricie and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions and east of the province of Ontario.
The region’s population of 145,000 resides in five territories known as regional county municipalities (or MRCs).
Regional reports – Profiles of regions and MRCs (regional county municipalities)
www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca /en/settle/abitibi-temiscamingue.html   (482 words)

  
  List of Quebec counties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of the historic counties and territories in the province of Quebec, followed by their respective county seats.
This is similar to Louisiana's parishes that are secular, and are equivalent to counties, in contrast to Quebec's secular parishes that are sub-county entities.
Quebec's counties were dissolved in the early 1980s and Quebec was then divided into county regional municipalities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Quebec_counties   (149 words)

  
 Quebec Subdivisions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There are three levels of territorial divisions in Quebec: administrative regions, municipalité régionale de comté (MRC or counties) and municipalities.
Counties were formed around the same period, but eventually it became convenient to separate municipal counties from electoral counties (whose boundary may shift between elections to ensure that each county has a comparable number of voters).
The traditional counties (around 70) were replaced by the modern MRC in the late 1970s.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-qcsub.html   (959 words)

  
 Québec
The early 1970s were marked by hostility as acts of terrorism, politically motivated murders, and violent labor strikes struck Quebec.
The Canadiens are the best-known team in hockey and have won the NHL championship (the Stanley Cup) a record 23 times—the earliest in 1924 and the most recent in 1993.
The Quebec Nordiques played in the NHL from 1979 to 1996 before the franchise became the Colorado Avalanche.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /canada/Nunavut-to-Yukon/Qu-bec.html   (6723 words)

  
 Durand, LaCroix Notes
Born of an upper-class family in France, she emigrated to New France as one of the King's Daughters and married Jacques Miville dit Descenes on 12 Nov 1669 in Quebec City.
Jacques was married by contract (ct 19 Oct 1669 Duquet) Quebec and at the census of 1681 he was at Riviere Ouelle.
Louis Durand was born November 13, 1670 at Sillery, Quebec, Canada to Jean and Katherine (Annannontak) Durand.
www.ortlauserfamilies.org /durand___lacroix_notes.htm   (2550 words)

  
 Neil Williams, Bookseller: Geological Survey of Canada
Norman, G W H Geological Survey of Canada - Paper 45-10- Preliminary Map Louvicourt Abitibi County, Quebec Ottawa, Department of Mines and Resources, 1945 ; ;.
Norman, G W H Geological Survey of Canada - Paper 46-16 Preliminary Map Northeast Bourlamaque Abitibi County Quebec Ottawa, Department of Mines and Resources, 1946 ; ;.
Norman, G W H Geological Survey of Canada - Paper 46-18 Preliminary Map Southeast Bourlamaque Abitibi County Quebec Ottawa, Department of Mines and Resources, 1946 ; ;.
www.williamsbooks.com /gscbulletins.htm   (2615 words)

  
 Genealogy Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marriage: 22 Aug 1987 in Saint-Come in Liniere, Quebec
Marriage: 7 Jul 1990 in Saint-Come in Liniere, Quebec
Marriage: 6 Aug 1966 in Sainte-Marie-Mediatrice in Chateau-d'Eau, Quebec
home.comcast.net /~godbout/dat14.html   (1438 words)

  
 Gatineau river
L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia
a tributary of the Ottawa river which rises in Abitibi county, Quebec, and flows south for 230 miles until it empties into the Ottawa near Hull.
It is named after Nicolas Gatineau, a fur-trader who came to Canada in 1649, and died about 1683: the theory has been advanced that he was drowned in this river, and that it was named after him for this reason.
www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/Gatineauriver.htm   (130 words)

  
 Alan Guisewite's Mineral Collection Images: Lead Minerals Page
The descloizite in this miniature from the Greyhorse Mine (Gray Horse), Pinal County, Arizona occurs on pseudomorphed (white hexagonal) vanadinite crystals.
The yellow powdery coating on the wulfenite and mimetite on this cabinet specimen from the Rowley Mine in Theba, Maricopa County, Arizona is ecdemite, a lead arsenic oxychloride.
This galena thumbnail dusted with micro pyrite is from the Tri-State District near Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.
www.cs.cmu.edu /~adg/adg-plimages.html   (6242 words)

  
 Vermont's Covered Bridges, Vermont, Tours, History, Trusses
August 6, Parke County, Indiana - The Parke County Tourist Information Center reports that Jesse Lee Payne, who burnt the Bridgeton Bridge, Jeffries Ford Bridge and attempted to burn the Mansfield Bridge could be facing an indefinite commitment to a state mental hospital, according to reports to Parke Circuit Court Judge Sam Swaim.
The 66-foot bridge was built in 1865 using the Burr Truss to span the Valley Creek in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Putnam County, IN, April 5, 2006 -- The county tourism board is committed to seeing that the county's historical landmarks are preserved by setting aside $500 for the Putnam County Sheriff's Department which provides the labor to keep the [covered] bridges looking presentable to tourists.
www.vermontbridges.com /news.notes.htm   (2662 words)

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