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84 relations: Abenaki, American Revolution, Appalachian Mountains, Arthabaska County, Quebec, Bishop's University, Brome County, Quebec, Brome, Quebec, Canada (New France), Canada–United States border, Canadians, Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches, Compton County, Quebec, Compton, Quebec, Conrad Black, Constitutional Act 1791, Cowansville, Damian Pettigrew, Donald Sutherland, Drummondville, East Bolton, Quebec, Estrie, First Nations, Frederick Haldimand, Frontenac County, Quebec, Gabriel Christie (British Army officer), Granby, Quebec, Hatley, Quebec (township), Henry Caldwell, Henry Hamilton (governor), Historic site, Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Maple Grove, Quebec), Jean Charest, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Julia Grace Wales, Lake Memphremagog, Land grant, Land run, Lennoxville, Quebec, List of regions of Quebec, List of summer colonies, Louis St. Laurent, Loyalist (American Revolution), Magog, Quebec, Mauricie–Bois-Francs, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Mont Orford, Mont Owl's Head, Mont Sutton, Montérégie, ..., Montreal, Muriel Duckworth, New England, New France, New York (state), Noyan, Quebec, Paris, Parish, Paul Martin, Premier of Quebec, Prime Minister of Canada, Quebec, Reginald Fessenden, Regional county municipality, Richelieu River, Saint Lawrence Lowlands, Saint Lawrence River, Saint-Armand, Quebec, Seigneurial system of New France, Seven Years' War, Shefford County, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Ski Bromont, Ski resort, Stanstead, Quebec (township), Thetford Mines, Thomas Dunn (lieutenant-governor), Tourism region, Township (Canada), Treaty of Paris (1763), United Empire Loyalist, Valcourt (township), Victoriaville, World War I. Expand index (34 more) »
Abenaki
The Abenaki (Abnaki, Abinaki, Alnôbak) are a Native American tribe and First Nation.
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
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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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Arthabaska County, Quebec
Arthabaska County is an historical county in central Quebec, Canada.
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Bishop's University
Bishop's University (Université Bishop's) is an English-language and predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
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Brome County, Quebec
Brome County, is a historical county of Quebec.
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Brome, Quebec
Brome is a village located in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality of the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.
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Canada (New France)
Canada was a French colony within New France first claimed in the name of the King of France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier.
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Canada–United States border
The Canada–United States border, officially known as the International Boundary, is the longest international border in the world between two countries.
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Canadians
Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.
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Centre-du-Québec
Centre-du-Québec (Central Quebec) is a region of Quebec, Canada.
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Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada.
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Compton County, Quebec
Compton County is an historical county in southeastern Quebec, Canada on the western flanks of the Appalachian Mountains on the Canada–United States border.
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Compton, Quebec
Compton is a municipality in Coaticook Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.
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Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG (born 25 August 1944) is a British former newspaper publisher, author.
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Constitutional Act 1791
The Clergy Endowments (Canada) Act 1791 (31 Geo 3 c 31), (the Act) commonly known as the Constitutional Act 1791, is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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Cowansville
Cowansville is a town in south-central Quebec, Canada, located on Lac Davignon north of the U.S. border.
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Damian Pettigrew
Damian (also Damien) Pettigrew (born in Quebec) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author, and multimedia artist, best known for his cinematic portraits of Balthus, Federico Fellini and Jean Giraud.
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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans more than five decades.
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Drummondville
Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River.
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East Bolton, Quebec
East Bolton (Bolton-Est) is a municipality of about 900 people, part of the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.
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Estrie
The Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that mostly overlaps the Eastern Townships (though not entirely).
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First Nations
In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.
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Frederick Haldimand
Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB (August 11, 1718 – June 5, 1791) was a military officer best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.
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Frontenac County, Quebec
Frontenac County was a county of Quebec, Canada.
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Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)
Gabriel Christie (16 September 1722 – 26 January 1799) was a British Army General from Scotland, who settled in Montreal after the French and Indian War.
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Granby, Quebec
Granby is a town in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal.
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Hatley, Quebec (township)
Hatley is a township in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada.
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Henry Caldwell
Lt.-Col.
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Henry Hamilton (governor)
Henry Hamilton (c. 1734 – 29 September 1796) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and later government official of the British Empire.
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Historic site
Historic site or Heritage site is an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their cultural heritage value.
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Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Maple Grove, Quebec)
Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a large historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located at 173 Gosford Road (173, chemin Gosford) in the village of Maple Grove in Irlande, Quebec, near Thetford Mines in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.
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Jean Charest
Jean James Charest, (born John James Charest;; born June 24, 1958) is a Quebec politician.
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Joseph-Armand Bombardier (April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a French-Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier.
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Julia Grace Wales
Julia Grace Wales (14 July 1881 – 15 July 1957) was a Canadian academic known for authoring the Wisconsin Plan, a proposal to set up a conference of intellectuals from neutral nations who would work to find a solution for the First World War.
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Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog (Lac Memphrémagog) is a fresh water glacial lake located between Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada.
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Land grant
A land grant is a gift of real estate – land or its use privileges – made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service.
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Land run
Land run (sometimes "land rush") usually refers to a historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened to homestead on a first-arrival basis.
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Lennoxville, Quebec
Lennoxville is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
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List of regions of Quebec
The province of Quebec, Canada, is officially divided into 17 administrative regions.
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List of summer colonies
The term summer colony is often used, particularly in the United States to describe well-known resorts and upper-class enclaves, typically located near the ocean or mountains of New England or the Great Lakes.
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Louis St. Laurent
Louis Stephen St.
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Loyalist (American Revolution)
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.
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Magog, Quebec
Magog is a city in southeastern Quebec, Canada, about east of Montreal at the confluence of Lake Memphremagog—after which the city was named—with the Rivière aux Cerises and the Magog River.
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Mauricie–Bois-Francs
Mauricie–Bois-Francs was a former administrative region of Quebec.
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Missisquoi County, Quebec
Missisquoi County is a historical county in Quebec.
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Mont Orford
Mount Orford (Mont Orford) is a mountain and ski resort located in the Mont-Orford National Park in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada.
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Mont Owl's Head
Mont Owl's Head is a mountain in Potton, Quebec, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.
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Mont Sutton
Mont Sutton is a ski area in the Eastern Townships located within the town of Sutton, Quebec, Canada, about 5 km directly east of its urban district.
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Montérégie
Montérégie is an administrative region in the southwest part of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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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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Muriel Duckworth
Muriel Helen Duckworth née Ball, CM, ONS (October 31, 1908 – August 22, 2009) was a Canadian pacifist, feminist and social and community activist.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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New France
New France (Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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Noyan, Quebec
Noyan is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Parish
A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.
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Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian politician who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada from December 12, 2003, to February 6, 2006.
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Premier of Quebec
The Premier of Quebec (French: Premier ministre du Québec (masculine) or Première ministre du Québec (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.
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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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Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born father.
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Regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM ('''.municipalité régionale de comté, MRC) is used in Quebec to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities.
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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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Saint Lawrence Lowlands
The Great Lakes-St.
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Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.
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Saint-Armand, Quebec
Saint-Armand is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality and the Eastern Townships.
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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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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.
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Shefford County, Quebec
Shefford County is an historical county in southern Québec, Canada.
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Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada.
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Ski Bromont
Bromont, montagne d'expériences is an alpine ski resort located in Bromont, Quebec on the slopes of Mont Brome, Mont Spruce and Pic du Chevreuil.
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Ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.
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Stanstead, Quebec (township)
Stanstead is a township municipality of about 1,000 people in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec.
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Thetford Mines
Thetford Mines (Canada 2011 Census population 25,709) is a city in south-central Quebec, Canada.
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Thomas Dunn (lieutenant-governor)
Thomas Dunn (1729 – 15 April 1818) was the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada from 1805 to 1807.
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Tourism region
A tourism region is a geographical region that has been designated by a governmental organization or tourism bureau as having common cultural or environmental characteristics.
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Township (Canada)
The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town.
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.
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United Empire Loyalist
United Empire Loyalists (or Loyalists) is an honorific given in 1799 by Lord Dorchester, the governor of Quebec and Governor-general of British North America, to American Loyalists who resettled in British North America during or after the American Revolution.
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Valcourt (township)
Valcourt is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality.
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Victoriaville
Victoriaville is a city in central Quebec, Canada, on the Nicolet River.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Townships
