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Encyclopedia > Carignan, Quebec

Carignan is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La-VallĂ©e-du-Richelieu. Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ... The Richelieu River in Quebec, Canada flows about 130 km north to drain Lake Champlain into the St. ... La Valée-du-Richelieu (The Valley of the Richelieu) is a Regional County Municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada. ...


According to the Canada 2003 Census:

  • Population: 6,029
  • % Change : 1
  • Area (sq. km.): 62.4

-Urban Area (sq. km.): 5 -Farm area (sq. km.): 57.39

  • Density (persons per sq. km.): 96.6


People live in Carignan since 1855, but Carignan was incorporated as a city in 1965.
Web site: http://villedecarignan.org/



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