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Quebec has a number of regions that go by historical and traditional names. Often, they have similar but distinct French and English names. Abitibi; Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent) Beauce (within Chaudière-Appalaches) Bois-Francs (within Centre-du-Québec) Charlevoix (eastern part of the Capitale-Nationale administrative region ...
Pismo Beach is located on the Rancho Pismo Mexican land grant made to José Ortega, grandson of José Francisco Ortega, in 1840. In 1846, José Ortega sold Rancho Pismo to Isaac Sparks. John Michael Price bought most of the rancho from Sparks. Price established the town of Pismo Beach in 1891. His homestead is now Price Historical Park. [14]
The Pismo Beach Pier has been closed due to the unusually high surf that slammed San Luis Obispo County on Dec. 28, 2023. ... Coastal flooding and high surf warnings for the region are in effect ...
The Pismo Beach Pier has been closed due to the unusually high surf that slammed San Luis Obispo County on Dec. 28, 2023. The Police Department also said it will be providing extra patrols on the ...
France is responsible for the defence of the islands. [5] The French Navy has maintained a patrol boat, the ex-trawler Fulmar, in the region since 1997. [38] Law enforcement in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is the responsibility of a branch of the French Gendarmerie Nationale; there are two police stations in the archipelago. [39]
The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese County of Nice annexed in 1860, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur; and the southeastern part of the former ...
Monarch butterfly at the Pismo Butterfly Grove Nuttall's woodpecker at Pismo Beach, near the butterfly grove. Pismo State Beach is a beach on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. It is approximately 17 miles long and fronts the towns of Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, and Oceano in San Luis Obispo County.
No French seigneur settled in the area during the period of New France, but after the Battle of Quebec in 1759, an English lord named Campbell settled there. In the decades that followed, a maritime pilot post was established at Bic Island, opposite the park. It remained there until 1905 when it was relocated to Pointe-au-Père. The pilots had ...