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RCAF Station Lachine was a Royal Canadian Air Force station located near Lachine and Dorval, Quebec, Canada, to the west of Montreal. The location of the station was Dorval Airport, which became the Montréal-Dorval International Airport (now Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport ).
Lachine (French pronunciation:) is a borough (arrondissement) within the city of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It was founded as a trading post in 1669. Developing into a parish and then an autonomous city, it was merged as a municipality into Montreal in 2002.
Lachine station (French pronunciation:) is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in the borough of Lachine, Canada. It is part of the Vaudreuil–Hudson line. It has no connecting bus routes. [1] As of October 2020, on weekdays, all 11 inbound trains and 12 outbound trains on the line call at this station. On weekends, all trains (four on ...
Lachine Canal, Quebec; The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site; Lachine station, train station on the Vaudreuil–Hudson line of the Réseau de transport métropolitain commuter train network; Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, a federal electoral district; Lachine massacre, 1689 attack by Mohawk warriors on the French settlement of ...
It was used until 1859 when it was sold to the Sisters of Sainte Anne who used it as an employee residence. The Lachine Canal was built around the rapids in 1825. Sir George Simpson (administrator) had a mansion across the canal from the warehouse which was torn down in 1880. Parks Canada acquired the warehouse in 1977 and in 1985 opened a museum.
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁə dam də ɡʁas laʃin]; formerly known as Lachine—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015. Its population in 2006 was 104,715.
When the house came up for sale in 1946, the City of Lachine purchased it for $25,000. Carignan decided to turn the old house into a history museum. The Manoir Lachine officially opened its doors to the public on June 24, 1948. [1] In the early 1950s a fish hatchery with rearing ponds and aquariums was installed on the site of the museum.
2nd Avenue, Ville Saint-Pierre, 1910s. The area of Saint-Pierre was part of the Montreal Island Seignory that was granted in 1640 to Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière and Pierre Chevrier, both founding members of Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, a religious organisation responsible for founding the settlement that would later become Montreal.