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Transport in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Starting in the mid-seventeenth century until 1700, many military expeditions arrived at this place in order to portage around the cascades on the Saint Lawrence River. The first reference to Pointe-des-Cascades appeared in a text of Louis-Armand de Lahontan in 1684 and on a map of Deshayes in 1695, when Pointe des Cascades was included in the Vaudreuil Lordship.
Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac (French pronunciation: [vodʁœj syʁ lə lak], lit. ' Vaudreuil on the Lake ') is a village municipality in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the western portion of the Vaudreuil Peninsula, which projects into Lake of Two Mountains.
Vaudreuil-Soulanges (French pronunciation: [vodʁœj sulɑ̃ʒ]) is a regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is located on a triangular peninsula in the western Montérégie region of Quebec , formed by the confluence of the Ottawa River to the north, and the St. Lawrence River to the south.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Terrasse-Vaudreuil was the site of a large powder magazine. [1] In 1948, its post office opened under the name Terrasse-Vaudreuil, in reference to its location on Lake of Two Mountains and its view towards Vaudreuil Bay and the town of Vaudreuil. In the 1950s, it began to see rapid residential development.
It was re-created for the 1989 election from the eastern part of Vaudreuil-Soulanges electoral district. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. It was named after former governor of New France from 1703 to 1725, Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil .
The place was mentioned in 1687 by Marquis de Denonville.His record stated that "Costeau du Lac is a place where one stopped on the way to the Rapides d'en Haut", referring to a small hillside (French: coteau) on the north side of the St. Lawrence River near the mouth of Lake Saint Francis (French: lac Saint-François).
Vaudreuil-Soulanges may refer to: Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality, Quebec; Vaudreuil—Soulanges (federal electoral district) ...