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In 2002, the Service de police municipale de Lachute was transferred to the Sûreté du Québec. [5] The Expo Lachute Fair is the oldest fair in Quebec and the second-oldest in all of Canada, running from 1825 to the present. In 1917, the Argenteuil Agricultural Society purchased land to hold the Expo Lachute Fair permanently in Lachute.
Argenteuil County (French: Comté d'Argenteuil, pronounced [kɔ̃te daʁʒɑ̃tœj]) is an historic county in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It was located on the Ottawa River between Gatineau and Montreal. The county seat was Lachute.
In 1809, Thomas Barron bought the land of the territory that would become the center of the town of Lachute. Five years later, Sir John Johnson, a Loyalist from New York who had resettled in Canada after the American Revolution, bought the rest of the Argenteuil Seigneury. He built a sawmill and gave land for churches, helping to attract new ...
Lachute Airport (TC LID: CSE4) is a general aviation airport 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of Lachute, northwest of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.. The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
Beginning at the junction of Route 148 just east of Lachute, it ends 93 kilometers further north at the junction of Route 125 in Saint-Donat, just south of Mont-Tremblant National Park. It is briefly concurrent with Route 364 in Morin-Heights and Route 117 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts.
Brownsburg-Chatham (French pronunciation: [bɹaunsbɚɡ ʃatam]) is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality. Economic activities include agriculture, tourism and the manufacture of explosives. It is the hometown of late Montreal Canadiens defenceman Gilles Lupien.
Route 158 is an east-west arterial road running between Lachute and Berthierville, north of the Ottawa and Saint Lawrence rivers, in the Laurentides region. It runs parallel to Autoroute 50 from Lachute to Autoroute 15 near Mirabel Airport, also passing through Joliette. A section of the 158 in Joliette is a four-lane short freeway and was ...
Harrington is a township municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality. It is located in the Laurentian Mountains, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north-west of Lachute. Its population centres include Harrington, Lac-Keatley, Lakeview, Lost River, and Rivington.