Saint Lawrence River Essays

  • Trois Rivieres

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    always changing. In particular, the St. Lawrence River is connected to the three-armed delta that gave Trois-Rivieres its name. The natural vegetation is as diverse as the city as it ranges from forests to grasslands. Trois-Rivieres is small city with much to offer. More specifically, Trois-Rivieres is located in an area with flat and rolling hills, and fertile soils that play a huge part of Trois-Rivieres’s economy. The formation of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence Lowlands happened during the Paleozoic

  • Father of New France, Samuel de Champlain

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    drawing art of nautical charts, and writing. He also learnt the fighting techniques as part of a requirement for French sailors and later he was enrolled as a soldier in the army under King Henry. Champlain’s first voyage trip was with his uncle-in-law, Saint Julien, a great navigator and sea voyageur. Julien was transporting Spanish soldiers to Cadiz in the pursuit of a treaty with the Vervins. Champlain got an opportunity to accompany his uncle for his first navigation trip. He made another voyage to

  • Jacques Cartier

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    Jacques Cartier is a well-known British explorer who was born on the French seaport of Saint- Malo, there was not a lot documented on Cartier’s’ early life before he made his great discoveries. He is one of the most highly respected sailor, and navigator of his time his voyages left a mark on the world. Jacques Cartier went on three main voyages in all of these voyages he discovered something new that benefited the world around him during his time of living. Jacques Cartier left his mark on the world

  • The Fall Of Quebec

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    command. There was only two years difference between the too men. The Fort on Cape Breton Island was the key to the gateway of the St Lawrence River. (Britannica vol. 8) Whoever held the fort had the key to the heart of Canada. After the British captured the fort, Quebec was the next military target. The following June, Major General James Wolfe led the British up the river. Helping Wolfe were Brigadiers General Robert Monkton, James Murray, and George Townsend. The flotilla had forty-nine men-of-war

  • Thousand Islands National Park

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    carved out to the Great Lakes basin, where the dammed water and meltwater of the glacier filled the channel now known as the St. Lawrence River. The channels and paths between the eroded tops of the mountain range, which at the time formed a rolling landscape, were flooded with the travelling river, forming what we now call the St. Lawrence River. The

  • The War that Never Happened: The Aroostook War

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    War never happened, but it certainly mattered. To the west, a few thousand New England militiamen walked north through Maine, some funding was appropriated, and one militiaman died of measles. To the east, New Brunswick moved some troops up the Saint John River and mobilized some local irregulars itself. Administrators of the disputed area from both sides were arrested, and confined, respectively, in Houlton and Fredericton. Fighting never broke out, and by the end of the winter of 1839, both American

  • Quebec, The Province, The People, The History

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    Ungava Bay; on the east by Labrador (Which is a part of Newfoundland), the Strait of Belle Isle, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; on the south by New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Ontario; and on the west by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay. The name Quebec is derived from an Algonquian term for "place where the river narrows," referring to the Saint Lawrence River near the site of present- day Quebec City, the capital of the province. Quebec is sometimes called "the Storied

  • Quebec Bridge Essay

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    340ft high. It was built on the main goal of connecting the lower Saint Lawrence River to the west of Quebec City, and Levis, Quebec in Canada. The bridge accommodates three highway lanes, one rail line, and a pedestrian walkway. Before the Quebec Bridge was built, taking a ferry or use the winter-time ice bridge is the only way to travel from the south shore of St. Lawrence in Levis to the north shore in Quebec City. The St. Lawrence River was the main channel of trade for Quebec City during the summer

  • John Adams

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    John Adams (1735-1826) Founding father. Second President of the United States, first vice-president of the U.S., member of the Continental Congress, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, helped negotiate the treaty of Paris with England in 1783. Also known as the Paris Peace Treaty, this agreement ended the United States War for Independence, giving formal recognition of the United States, and established it's then-boundaries. Second President (1797-1801) John Adams devoted much of his

  • Essay On La Salle

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    explorer in North America, who navigated the length of the Mississippi River and claimed the Louisiana region for France. La Salle was born on November 22, 1643, in Rouen, France, and educated by the Jesuits. In 1666 he immigrated to Canada, was granted land on the St. Lawrence River, and became a trader. From 1669 to 1670 he explored the region south of Lakes Ontario and Erie, and he later claimed to have discovered the Ohio River in 1671. In the course of his explorations in the wilderness, La Salle

  • Kateri Tekakwitha

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    Highly recognized by people, saints are famous around the world by people of all different backgrounds. Many different Christian-based religions have or use saints as a purpose to get people to pray more often than they would usually, or have them to be used as “communion saints”. There are over 10,000 saints, many with different backgrounds, histories, and meanings. Some of them are patron saints, which shield or protect a certain person, place, or thing. Saints can mean a lot of different things

  • 1996 Saguenay Floods

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    areas with the most damage were near the Saguenay River and Lake Saint Jean which has an area of 106,000km² and a population of 300,000 (“Lesson of Saguenay”). 2. Before the natural disaster, on Thursday, July 18 as huge counter-clockwise moving cyclone called a comma started forming over the centre of North America. The head of this 4,000-kilometre long comma stopped over the Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean region, northwest of the St. Lawrence River. Then, at 1 A.M. on July 19, mild rain of what

  • Waste Water In Canada Essay

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    land-use area; and 89.1163 ten thousand square kilometers are covered with fresh water, which accounted for 15% of the world’s total freshwater.        Canada has plenty of famous great lakes and there are four main hydro-graphic nets like Mackenzie River,Yukon

  • The First North American Indian Saint: Part 1 - Weskarini Algonquins

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    Petite Nation des Algonquins (Little Nation of the Algonquin), lived on the north side of the Ottawa River below Allumettes Island (Morrison's Island), Québec, New France. They had close associations with the Jesuit missionaries. Most of the Weskarini Algonquin got baptized in Montréal, and the rest later at Trois-Rivières, as they separated from the rest of the Algonquin who continued up the Ottawa River. They finally settled in Trois-Rivières, setting up their village near the Fort there. In March

  • Robert Rogers and the Raid on Saint Francis

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    trekked 150 miles through French-controlled wilderness to attack the Indian town of Saint Francis.1 The action was a stunning model for future special operations raids. The ability to materialize where not expected and strike a blow changed the dynamic of the war. The British has gained the offensive and it was the French and their allies who had to fear the darkness at civilizations edge. History The raid on Saint Francis can be described in terms of its sociopolitical backdrop. The French, British

  • War Of 1812 Dbq Outline

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    was fought in three different stages. First, it was at sea, where merchant ships were attacked by privateers and warships. Second, land and naval battles were fought on the United States - Canadian frontier. It ran along the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River, and the northern end of Lake Champlain. Thirdly, most of the big land battles were fought in the Southern United States and the Gulf Coast.

  • War Of 1812 Dbq

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    While the British had the upper hand and blocked the Atlantic coast of the United States and executed massive assaults. Second was boots on ground and oceanic battles that were battled on the American Canadian frontier that continued on the Saint Lawrence River, great lakes, and the north end of Lake Champlain. And lastly they saw a fair amount of fighting on the land of American south and the gulf coast. Where American forces defeated the Britain’s Indian allies and British forces at New

  • Montreal, 1967 Map

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    the map are drawn to scale, the buildings depicted on the map are oversized for emphasis, and only the major Expo pavilions are depicted. The map is relatively easy to read. The Montreal expo of 1967 was spread out over four sections in the Saint Lawrence River: The Cité du Havre, Ile Sainte-Hélène, Ile Notre Dâme, and La Ronde . In his book Terre des Hommes (1939, translated as Man and His World), Antoine de St. Exupéry wrote that "to be a man is to feel that through one's own contribution, one

  • Causes Of Flooding In Canada

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    normal amount of rain they usually get. The amounts of rainfall in Quebec caused some major rivers to rise about 10 centimeters in one night (Tang). Quebec has large waterways like the Gatineau and the Saint Lawrence rivers and, when they receive a very high amount of rainfall they will overflow. Since rivers flow down stream, they will flood regions in Quebec and Eastern Ontario. When streams and rivers rise because of the spring ice and snow melt they flood and the ground becomes saturated with

  • Life In Ireland In The 1800's

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    Irish people are known all over the world Ireland, and in the mid-1800s Ireland was an agricultural nation, populated by eight million persons who were among the poorest people in the Western World. Only about a quarter of the population could read and write. Life expectancy was short, just 40 years for men. The Irish married quite young, girls at 16 and boys at 17 or 18, and tended to have large families, although infant mortality was also quite high. A British survey in 1835 found half of the rural