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This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in France. Canada has designated only two sites outside its borders as National Historic Sites, both of which are war memorials in northern France commemorating Canadian and Newfoundland losses in the First World War. [1]
Main building, viewed from the southwest. The Château de Cany is a château located in Cany-Barville, a French municipality in the department of Seine-Maritime.It was built by Pierre Le Marinier towards the end of Louis XIII's reign and served as a family residence.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Les Loges-Marchis ( French pronunciation: [le lɔʒ maʁʃi] ) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France .
Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor. Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, colonist, namesake of LaSalle, Quebec. [1]
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Calvados ( UK : / ˈ k æ l v ə d ɒ s / , US : /- d oʊ s , ˌ k æ l v ə ˈ d oʊ s , ˌ k ɑː l v ə ˈ -/ , French: [kalvados] ⓘ ) [ needs Norman IPA ] is a department in the Normandy region in northwestern France . [ 3 ]
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Langis-lès-Mortagne ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lɑ̃ʒi lɛ mɔʁtaɲ] ⓘ , literally Saint-Langis near Mortagne ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Ventrouze ( French pronunciation: [la vɑ̃tʁuz] ⓘ ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France .
The first written mentions of Flers appear at the end of the twelfth century as Flers (1164–1179) or Flex (1188–1221). Some authors think that the name of the town derives from the German toponym Hlaeri, meaning wasteland or common grazing land, while others suggest an origin in the German Fliessen, from the Dutch vliet or the Latin fluere Latin Fluere, indicating a waterflow, basin or marsh.