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  Saint Lawrence River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Saint Lawrence River (French: fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
The Saint Lawrence River is born at the outflow of Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario.
The source of the North River in the Mesabi Range in Minnesota is considered to be the source of the Saint Lawrence River.
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 Gulf of Saint Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: golfe du Saint-Laurent), the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean.
The river goes into the gulf through the Jacques Cartier Strait between the Côte-Nord region of Quebec and the north shore of Anticosti Island, and the Honguedo Strait between the south shore of Anticosti Island and the Gaspé Peninsula.
Besides the Saint Lawrence River itself, semi-major tributaries of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence include the Miramichi River, the Natashquan River, the Restigouche River, the Margaree River, and the Humber River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Saint_Lawrence   (354 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence River - Simple English Wikipedia
The Saint Lawrence River is a big river in eastern North America.
The river meets the Atlantic Ocean in a big "estuary" or bay, the biggest in the world; this is called the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
The Canadian cities of Kingston, Montreal, and Quebec City are on this river.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River   (151 words)

  
 Regoli Organotins in Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) from the Saint Lawrence River
Regoli Organotins in Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) from the Saint Lawrence River
Organotins in Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) from the Saint Lawrence River, McGill University.
Organotins in Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) from the Saint Lawrence River
www.sgnis.org /publicat/jglr839.htm   (279 words)

  
 Enjoy the Living on the Saint Lawrence River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The entry hall runs the length of the house and a river view is available through the hall window as soon as you enter the house.
This includes the river and its tributaries in the Lake St. Lawrence area of the river.
Nestled along the mighty St. Lawrence River marking New York’s northern border with Canada, Waddington has a front-row seat to view passing ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway, the fishermen reeling in northern pike and muskie, and some of the world’s most breathtaking sunsets.
home.twcny.rr.com /liveontheriver   (935 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence River - Britannica Concise
Saint Lawrence - county, northern New York state, U.S., bordered to the northwest by Ontario, Can., the St. Lawrence River constituting the boundary.
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of - body of water covering about 60,000 square miles (155,000 square km) at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
Saint Lawrence Islands National Park - national park covering an area of mainland, islands, and islets in southeastern Ontario province, Can., on the St. Lawrence River between Kingston and Brockville.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9377502   (582 words)

  
 The ST. LAWRENCE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
From the heart of a continent to the coast of an ocean, from sweet water seas to salt water shores, the course of the mighty St. Lawrence River is also the course of Canadian history.
Avenue of exploration, corridor of commerce, cradle of New France and Upper Canada, the great inland waterway of the northeast was destined to lead not to the spices and silks of China, but to the even greater bounty of forests, furs and raw materials.
On St. Lawrence's Day in 1535, Jacques Cartier gave the saint's name to one small bay near the river's mouth, but by 1600, it was used to describe the entire river.
www.greatcanadianrivers.com /rivers/stlawer/stlawer-home.html   (275 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence
The river's principal tributaries are the Richelieu (linking the St. Lawrence with Lake Champlain and the Hudson River), St. Francis, Ottawa, St. Maurice, and Saguenay rivers.
The St. Lawrence River is an important source of hydroelectric power; one of the world's largest facilities is the Beauharnois power plant near Montreal.
The river's valley is an agricultural region; potatoes, grains, hay, vegetables, and dairy cattle are raised.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0843094.html   (466 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence Valley Prehistory — the last 25 years (1975-2000)
The Saint Lawrence River is here considered as a highway taken by Plano groups but we don’t know if this migration was an early one (between 10,000 and 9,000 BP) or a late one (between 9,000 and 8,000 BP).
However, the Saint Lawrence River started to act as a highway permitting the circulation of ideas, objects and groups, giving to its inhabitants a relative cultural homogeneity and a participation in networks at the scale of the Northeast.
As a final remark, the archaeology of the last 25 years in the Saint Lawrence Valley is characterized by a steady increase of knowledge and by instability in institutional and government involvement.
www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca /pamu/champs/archeo/archisto/chapdelaine.htm   (2380 words)

  
 The Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
The Maritimes and the Saint Lawrence River Valley
There are numerous "saults," or falls, on the Saint Lawrence River between the town of "Trois Rivières" and the entrance to the "Lac Saint Louis" (Lake Ontario).
The course of the Mississippi River has been radically corrected from the one shown on maps 9 and 10, and its mouths are well shown; as we shall see, it was about this time that the French began to settle that area.
www.newberry.org /smith/exhibits/fe/fe1.html   (2214 words)

  
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With a 673,000-km2 drainage basin and an average flow of 10,100 m3/s, the Saint Lawrence carries one of the largest quantities of fresh-water on the planet.
The Saint Lawrence is also a major sea lane that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes via the Seaway.
Saint Lawrence Vision 2000 also encourages the active participation of partners from the private sector, universities, environmental groups, research centres and local organizations.
www.keepitblue.net /anglais/m-ko-e4-p2-gb.html   (648 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence River and Seaway --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Until the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, Montreal was the farthest point inland that large oceangoing vessels could reach (see Saint Lawrence River).
The largest city in the province of New Brunswick, Saint John lies at the mouth of the St. John River on the Bay of Fundy.
An independent island group in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies, the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis is situated in the northeastern Caribbean Sea.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9110732   (833 words)

  
 Cacouna.Qc - Province of Quebec
The biggest watercourse is the Saint Lawrence River, which crosses Quebec from west to east, covering some 1 000 km, before it flows into the Atlantic.
The Saint Lawrence Seaway was inaugurated in 1959.
The Saint Lawrence is a lifeline for flora, fauna and human life.
cacouna.net /quebec_e.htm   (1428 words)

  
 Old Forge to Saint Lawrence River - NY
The river now is fairly wide, with flat floodplain on most of the left shore, and occasionally wooded hillsides along the right hand shore, which is state owned and where any campsites are located.
Below the village and back on the river I was now passing into the little traveled section of the Raquette, a 17 mile canyon of fastwater, rapids and falls.
Upriver a strip of stars in the sky, bracketed by the dark forest silhouette, was mirrored on the smooth surface of the river.
www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?576   (5991 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence River (French fleuve Saint-Laurent), originally Kaniatarowanenneh ("big waterway") in Mohawk, is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
The river includes Lac Saint-Louis south of Montreal and Lac Saint-François at Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec.
The first European to navigate the St. Lawrence was Jacques Cartier, who also claimed New France for Francis I.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Saint_Lawrence_River   (345 words)

  
 Recreation and Tourism on the Saint-Lawrence
Tourism on the Saint-Lawrence River is quite popular with a plethora of activities in which to participate in such as: boating, canoeing, sight-seeing, hunting, fishing, and cruising.
The St. Lawrence River is integral to the socio-economic development of the people who live on it.
The river is ideal for many water sports; however, many spots are restricted from use because of the high amount of bacteriological pollution.
www.ubishops.ca /ccc/div/soc/esg/stlaur/econ/ec_touri.htm   (955 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It runs 1,900 miles (3,058 kilometers) from source to mouth (744 miles or 1,197 km from the outflow of Lake Ontario).
The source of the in the Mesabi Range in Minnesota is considered to be the source of the Saint Lawrence River.
Safe Passage: Aids to Navigation on the St. Lawrence (http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/VQ_P1_5_EN.html) — Historical essay, illustrated with drawings and photographs
www.elcentro.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/St._Lawrence_River   (555 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence, Gulf of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SAINT LAWRENCE, GULF OF [Saint Lawrence, Gulf of] arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.100,000 sq mi (259,000 sq km), SE Canada, extending c.250 mi (400 km) from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River to Newfoundland on the east.
The Mingan Archipelago - In the St. Lawrence river, off the northern shore of Quebec, a collection of little-known islands is a sea kayaking paradise.
Cancer in wildlife, a case study: beluga from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/StL1awrG1lf.asp   (626 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL ST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So we have two different intakes in the St. Lawrence River, one equipped with four pipes of seven feet diameter, and the emergency intake is equipped with two pipes of six feet in diameter.
The Club Royal St. Lawrence is one of the few that has facilities for hauling out pleasure craft of that size so that they may be repaired, and it’s just been one large yacht after another, some with very serious damages, you know, in the 5-10-20, maybe even $30,000 damage done to that yacht.
Throughout the province and northern Quebec, whatever stream drains into the river is at the present pretty near dry, and the same goes for the lakes, and this is very unusual.
www.islrbc.org /new-Version/tanscripts010917.htm   (5716 words)

  
 Québec St. Lawrence River - Tourist Guide of Quebec, The Portal of Quebec, Canada, Accommodation, Vehicules Virtual ...
Finally, it is Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City's founding father, that imposed the name of St.Lawrence to identify the waterway that constitutes the St.Lawrence River, even though the name could already be found in traveller's tales dating back to the XVIIth century, and in many writings and maps from the mid-XVIth century.
Finally, it is during a new mission, for the purpose of establishing a residential base along the river, that Champlain chose the detroit of Kebec(Quebec) where he built his first house in july 1608.
The river is the frontier between Canada and the USA for approximately 200 kilometers.
www.quebecweb.com /tourisme/fleuveang.html   (535 words)

  
 Geomorphology of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The geomorphology of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence region is quite interesting even to a novice in the field given that the Saint Lawrence River did not originally connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
Lakes forming and disappearing; rivers flowing into areas which now occupy farms are examples of the natural processes that occur on the planet and continue to occur over time.
The Ottawa and Saint Lawrence juncture is believed to have occurred approximately 9,000 b.p., whereas the channel the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence emerged less than three thousand years ago.
collections.ic.gc.ca /stlauren/environ/en_geomo.htm   (1589 words)

  
 Saint Lawrence River,
The Saint Lawrence River is the largest river in Canada and one of the largest in the world.
The river begins at the northeast end of Lake Ontario and flows to the northeast until it enters the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Although in its upper reaches, it forms the international border between Canada and the U.S., dividing Ontario from New York, most of its course is through the province of Quebec.
www.ohwy.com /cd/s/slr.htm   (128 words)

  
 Mapping the French Empire in North America: A Virtual Exhibit Based on the exhibit catalog of the same name
Eventually, the great bulk of the population, such as it was, came to be concentrated in the Saint Lawrence valley.
But the French had to man strategic outposts like Louisbourg, because if they lost control of the approaches to the Saint Lawrence valley, their settlements in the valley could not long survive.
The lowest image shows Québec as seen from the Saint Lawrence, with the merchants' houses in the foreground on the plain by the river, and the royal and ecclesiastical establishments behind them on the hill.
www.newberry.org /smith/exhibits/fe/fe2.html   (1888 words)

  
 The Atlas of Canada - The Atlantic Coast and Saint Lawrence River 1603 to 1607
The Atlantic Coast and Saint Lawrence River 1603 to 1607
Champlain's resource surveys of the Atlantic Coast and Saint Lawrence River between 1603 and1607 were the first exploration in this area since Cartier and Bellenger.
After a disastrous winter (1604-05) on an island in the Ste Croix River (on the present-day Maine-New Brunswick border), a permanent settlement was built at Port Royal in the Annapolis Valley.
atlas.gc.ca /site/english/maps/historical/exploration/exploration/ac/1   (753 words)

  
 Health Stream Literature summary - Issue 19 September 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Occurrence of pathogenic microorganisms in the Saint Lawrence River (Canada) and comparison of heath risks for populations using it as their source of drinking water.
The aim of this study was to collect data on pathogenic microorganisms along a 300km portion of the Saint Lawrence River (Canada) and to estimate the health risks for the populations using it as their source of drinking water.
Forty-five water treatment plants along the Saint Lawrence River provided samples and data on their operational procedures in order to calculate the theoretical efficiency of each plant’s removal of pathogens.
www.waterquality.crc.org.au /hsarch/HS19p.htm   (446 words)

  
 About - SLIP
Your Passport to the Saint Lawrence River Valley
Take a trip through the Saint Lawrence River Valley and discover the diversity of heritage and culture that only an area comprised of three nations can offer.
In the United States, the contact point is the Saint Lawrence Discovery Center.
www.slip-passport.org /about.html   (244 words)

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