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83 relations: Agpaitic rock, Albite, Algonquian peoples, Appalachian Mountains, Apple, Beloeil, Quebec, Biotite, Canada, Catholic Church, Cliff, Coffeehouse, Cornelius Krieghoff, Cretaceous, Cross-country skiing, Dike (geology), Diorite, Early Cretaceous, Eastern Townships, Endangered species, Fairy, Gabbro, Great Meteor hotspot track, Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests, Hamilton Gault, Hiking, Hollow Earth, Hornfels, Intrusive rock, Intrusive suite, Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville, John Burke (genealogist), Jordi Bonet, Lichen, List of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries of Canada, Magma, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Marble, McGill University, McMasterville, Quebec, Metamorphic rock, Metasomatism, Mineral, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Montérégie, Monteregian Hills, Montreal, Monzonite, Mount Caubvick, National Topographic System, Nepheline syenite, ..., New Age, New England hotspot, North American Plate, Oral tradition, Orchard, Otterburn Park, Quebec, Ozias Leduc, Paul-Émile Borduas, Pegmatite, Peregrine falcon, Phlogopite, Plant, Quebec, Richelieu River, Rock climbing, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, Seigneurial system of New France, Siderophyllite, Slab (geology), Species at Risk Act, Stations of the Cross, Stock (geology), Stream, Sugar bush, Syenite, Thuja occidentalis, Type locality (geology), Ufology, Unidentified flying object, Watermill, Wigwam, Xenolith. Expand index (33 more) »
Agpaitic rock
An agpaitic rock is a peralkaline igneous rock, typically nepheline syenite or phonolite.
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Albite
Albite is a plagioclase feldspar mineral.
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Algonquian peoples
The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Apple
An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus pumila).
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Beloeil, Quebec
Beloeil is an off-island suburb of Montreal, located in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River, east of Montreal.
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Biotite
Biotite is a common phyllosilicate mineral within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is a vertical, or nearly vertical, rock exposure.
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Coffeehouse
A coffeehouse, coffee shop or café (sometimes spelt cafe) is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages (café latte, cappuccino, espresso), tea, and other hot beverages.
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Cornelius Krieghoff
Cornelius David Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – April 8, 1872) was a Dutch-Canadian painter of the 19th century.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.
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Dike (geology)
A dike or dyke, in geological usage, is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body.
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Diorite
Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock composed principally of the silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine), biotite, hornblende, and/or pyroxene.
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Eastern Townships
The Eastern Townships (Cantons de l'Est) is a tourist region and a former administrative region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, situated between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Fairy
A fairy (also fata, fay, fey, fae, fair folk; from faery, faerie, "realm of the fays") is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.
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Gabbro
Gabbro refers to a large group of dark, often phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rocks chemically equivalent to basalt, being its coarse-grained analogue.
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Great Meteor hotspot track
The Great Meteor hotspot track, also referred to as the New England hotspot track, is a vast trail of hotspot magmatism in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
The Gulf of St.
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Hamilton Gault
Brigadier General Andrew Hamilton Gault (18 August 1882 – 28 November 1958) was a Canadian Army officer and British politician.
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Hiking
Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.
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Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth is a historical concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space.
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Hornfels
Hornfels (German, meaning "hornstone") is called so because of its exceptional toughness and texture both reminiscent of animal horns.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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Intrusive suite
The term Intrusive suite seems near synonymous with intrusive rock.
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Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville
Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville (26 October 1668 – 30 June 1722) was a colonial military officer of New France in the French Marines in Canada.
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John Burke (genealogist)
John Burke (12 November 178627 March 1848) was an Irish genealogist, and the original publisher of Burke's Peerage.
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Jordi Bonet
Jordi Bonet (7 May 1932 – 25 December 1979) was a Catalan-born Canadian painter, ceramist, muralist, and sculptor who worked principally in Quebec.
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Lichen
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.
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List of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries of Canada
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries are created in Canada under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Man and the Biosphere Programme
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific programme, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
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McGill University
McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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McMasterville, Quebec
McMasterville is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".
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Metasomatism
Metasomatism is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids.
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Mineral
A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.
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Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
Mont-Saint-Hilaire is an off-island suburb of Montreal in southeastern Quebec, Canada, on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu.
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Montérégie
Montérégie is an administrative region in the southwest part of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Monteregian Hills
The Monteregian Hills (Collines Montérégiennes) is a linear chain of isolated hills in Montreal and Montérégie, between the Laurentians and the Appalachians.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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Monzonite
Monzonite is an igneous intrusive rock.
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Mount Caubvick
Mount Caubvick (known as Mont D'Iberville in Quebec) is a mountain located in Canada on the border between Labrador and Quebec in the Selamiut Range of the Torngat Mountains.
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National Topographic System
The National Topographic System or NTS (Système national de référence cartographique) is the system used by Natural Resources Canada for providing general purpose topographic maps of the country.
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Nepheline syenite
Nepheline syenite is a holocrystalline plutonic rock that consists largely of nepheline and alkali feldspar.
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New Age
New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.
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New England hotspot
The New England hotspot, also referred to as the Great Meteor hotspot, is a long-lived volcanic hotspot in the Atlantic Ocean.
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North American Plate
The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
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Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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Orchard
An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production.
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Otterburn Park, Quebec
Otterburn Park is a small town located 40 km east of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Ozias Leduc
Ozias Leduc (October 8, 1864 - June 16, 1955) is one of Quebec's early painters.
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Paul-Émile Borduas
Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québec painter known for his abstract paintings.
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Pegmatite
A pegmatite is a holocrystalline, intrusive igneous rock composed of interlocking phaneritic crystals usually larger than 2.5 cm in size (1 in); such rocks are referred to as pegmatitic.
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Peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.
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Phlogopite
Phlogopite is a yellow, greenish, or reddish-brown member of the mica family of phyllosilicates.
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Plant
Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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Richelieu River
The Richelieu River rises at Lake Champlain, from which it flows to the north in the province of Quebec, Canada and empties into the St. Lawrence river.
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Rock climbing
Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec
Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a municipality in the Montérégie region of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain (born Samuel Champlain; on or before August 13, 1574Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date or his place of birth. – December 25, 1635), known as "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
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Seigneurial system of New France
The manorial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire.
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Siderophyllite
Siderophyllite is a rare member of the mica group of silicate minerals with formula KFe2+2Al(Al2Si2)O10(F,OH)2.
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Slab (geology)
In geology, a slab is the portion of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.
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Species at Risk Act
The Species at Risk Act (SARA) is a piece of Canadian federal legislation which became law in Canada on December 12, 2002.
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Stations of the Cross
The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers.
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Stock (geology)
In geology, a stock is an igneous intrusion that has a surface exposure of less than, differing from batholiths only in being smaller.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Sugar bush
Sugar bush refers to a forest stand which is exploited for maple syrup.
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Syenite
Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (.
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Thuja occidentalis
Thuja occidentalis, also known as northern white-cedar or eastern arborvitae, is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north, central and upper Northeastern United States, but widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.
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Type locality (geology)
Type locality, also called type area, type site, or type section, is the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified.
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Ufology
Ufology is the study of reports, visual records, physical evidence, and other phenomena related to unidentified flying objects (UFO).
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Unidentified flying object
An unidentified flying object or "UFO" is an object observed in the sky that is not readily identified.
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Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
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Wigwam
A wigwam, wickiup or wetu is a domed dwelling formerly used by certain Native American and First Nations tribes, and still used for ceremonial purposes.
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Xenolith
A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Hilaire
