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Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French Saint-Pierre et Miquelon) is a French overseas collectivity consisting of several small islands off the eastern coast of Canada near Newfoundland. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...
A small island in the Adriatic sea An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water. ...
Canada is a sovereign state in northern North America, the northern-most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. ...
This is about the island in Canada. ...
Saint Pierre and Miquelon flag, from public domain flags of CIA World Factbook File links The following pages link to this file: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon La Francophonie List of FIFA country codes Categories: Flag images | Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ...
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon coat of arms This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ...
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An official language is something that is given a unique status in the countries, states, and other territories. ...
French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...
In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ...
In France and many other French-speaking countries, a préfet (English: prefect) is the States representative in a département or région (in the later case, he is called a préfet de région). ...
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To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here surface areas between 100,000 km² and 1,000,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ...
In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ...
Euro (disambiguation). ...
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UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ...
A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of which Internet domain names consist of. ...
.pm is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. ...
Events February 10 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Great Britain. ...
History
Main article: History of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Paleoeskimo or Dorset Indian artifacts have been uncovered in Saint-Pierre (Anse à Henry). Some of these date back to 3000 BC. The Dorset culture preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America. ...
The Dorset culture preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America. ...
(31st century BC - 30th century BC - 29th century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events 2925 - 2776 BC - First Dynasty wars in Egypt 2900 BC _ Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia. ...
Named the 'Eleven Thousand Virgins' by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes in 1521, the islands were also named the 'Islands of Saint-Pierre' by the French. Ursula (small female bear in Latin) is a Christian saint. ...
João Álvares Fagundes, an explorer and ship owner from Viana do Castelo in Northern Portugal, near Galicia, organized several expeditions to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1520-1521. ...
Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. ...
During the 16th century, the islands were used as a base for the seasonal cod fishery by the French of La Rochelle, Granville, Saint-Malo and the Basque Country. When French explorer Jacques Cartier was in Saint-Pierre in 1536 he made note of the French and Breton fishery. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
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The entrance to the old La Rochelle harbour, with the two 14th century towers. ...
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This article is about the traditional Basque domain. ...
Jacques Cartier (Saint-Malo, France, December 31, 1491 - January 19, 1557) was a French explorer who is popularly thought of one of the major discoverers of Canada, or more specifically, the interior region that would be part of the first area that could become that nation. ...
Events February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Argentina. ...
Breton can refer to: The Breton language A person from Brittany Author André Breton This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The name Miquelon is of Basque origin as this island was used by fishermen from Saint-Jean de Luz. Miquelon is an island, part of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago. ...
Basque is the language spoken by the Basque people, who live in northern Spain and the adjoining area of southwestern France. ...
Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Basque Donibane Lohitzun) is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France. ...
Saint-Pierre was settled by the French in the early 17th century, abandoned under the Treaty of Utrecht, and returned to France in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
The Treaties of Utrecht (April 11, 1713) were signed in Utrecht, a city of the United Provinces. ...
Events February 10 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Great Britain. ...
This article is about the 1756–1763 war. ...
Between 1763 and 1778, the islands became a place of refuge for Acadian deportees from Nova Scotia. Events February 10 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Great Britain. ...
Events The term Thoroughbred was first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick . ...
Acadians are the original French settlers of parts of the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area 55,284 km² (12th) - Land 53,338 km² - Water 1,946 km² (3. ...
In 1778 the islands were attacked and the population deported by the British as retaliation for French support of the American Revolutionary War. The American Revolutionary War ( 1775– 1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ...
Although France regained the islands in 1783, by 1793, British hostility to the French Revolution and the fact that France had declared war with Britain led to another British attack on the islands and the deportation of the entire population. Events February 3 - Spain recognizes United States independence. ...
1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...
Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ...
The islands were finally returned to France after the second abdication of Napoleon in 1816. For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ...
Events March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. ...
The islands represent the sole remaining vestige of France's once vast North American possessions. The French established colonies across the New World in the 17th century. ...
They have always been most important as a fishing centre, being in easy travel distance of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, some of the world's richest fishing grounds. The Grand Banks are a group of underwater plateaus southeast of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf. ...
The islands were used during American Prohibition as a base for smuggling liquor into the United States by many gangsters including Al Capone and Bill McCoy. This article is about the prohibition of alcoholic beverages; separate articles on the prohibition of drugs in general and writs of prohibition are also available. ...
FBI mugshot of Capone, 1931 Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947) more popularly known as Al Scarface Capone was a famous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to have said he was a used furniture dealer. ...
Bill McCoy was a Scottish sea captain who during probation in the United States smuggled whisky into the country. ...
After Germany invaded most of Europe during World War II, the islands were controlled by Vichy France. On Christmas day 1941, Free French forces led by Rear-Admiral Émile Muselier liberated the islands on behalf of Charles de Gaulle. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon became the focus of a serious rift between Free French forces and the United States Department of State, which was courting Vichy France and sent ships to take the islands back. Vichy France (French: now called Régime de Vichy or Vichy; called itself at the time État Français, or French State) was the French state of 1940-1944 which was a puppet government under Nazi influence, as opposed to the Free French Forces, based first in London and later in Algiers. ...
The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres in French) were French fighters who decided to go on fighting against Germany after the Fall of France and German occupation and to fight against Vichy France in World War II. General Charles de Gaulle was a member of the French Cabinet in...
Portrait of General Charles de Gaulle. ...
The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...
Vichy France (French: now called Régime de Vichy or Vichy; called itself at the time État Français, or French State) was the French state of 1940-1944 which was a puppet government under Nazi influence, as opposed to the Free French Forces, based first in London and later in Algiers. ...
The islands became a full département d'outre mer of France in 1976. This status was modified in 1985 and the islands became a territory with special status (collectivité territoriale à statut particulier). Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements doutre-mer (Overseas departments) or DOMs. ...
Politics Main article: Politics of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Country name: conventional long form: Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon conventional short form: Saint Pierre and Miquelon local long form: Departement de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon local short form: Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Data code: SB Dependency status: self-governing overseas collectivity of France See also: Administrative divisions...
In 1992, a maritime boundary dispute with Canada over the delineation of the Exclusive Economic Zone belonging to France was settled by the International Court of Arbitration. In the decision, France kept the 12 nautical mile (NM) territorial sea surrounding the islands and was given an additional 12 NM contiguous zone as well as a 10.5 NM wide corridor stretching 200 NM south. The total area in the award was 18% of what France had contested. Canada is a sovereign state in northern North America, the northern-most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. ...
In international maritime law, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone extending from a states coast over which the state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. ...
The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ...
A nautical mile is a unit of distance, or, as physical scientists like to call it, length. ...
Geography Main article: Geography of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Location: Northern North America, islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Newfoundland (Canada) Geographic coordinates: 46°50′ N 56°20′ W Map references: North America Area: total: 242 km² land: 242 km² water: 0 km² note: includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups Area...
The island of Saint Pierre is surrounded by smaller dependencies which include the island of Grand Colombier, Petit Colombier, and Île aux Marins formally known as Île aux Chiens. This is a map of Saint Pierre et Miquelon from the CIA world factbook (retrieved from http://www. ...
Miquelon island was formed by the joining of three islands by sand dunes and Quaternary deposits. These islands are Le Cap, Miquelon (Grande Miquelon), Langlade (Petite Miquelon). Miquelon is an island, part of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago. ...
This article is about the geologic period. ...
The climate is very damp and windy, the winters are harsh and long. The spring and early summer are foggy and cool. Late summer and early fall are sunny.
Economy Main article: Economy of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon The Economy of Saint Pierre and Miquelon possesses the feature that the inhabitants have traditionally earned their livelihood by fishing and by servicing fishing fleets operating off the coast of Newfoundland. ...
The islands were dependent upon the cod fishery for the best part of the last four centuries. However, overfishing on the Grand Banks has led Canada to impose a long closure of this industry. Since fishing quotas are governed by Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and the French Fishery have been seriously affected.
In Saint Pierre and Miquelon, many efforts are being made, with the help of the French Government, to diversify the local economy. Tourism, fish farming, crab fishing and agriculture are being developed.
The islands continue to print their own postage stamps but use the Euro currency. This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. ...
Euro (disambiguation). ...
Demographics Main article: Demographics of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Population: 6,896 (July 2000 est. ...
Culture Main article: Culture of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
French patriotism is still strong on the islands, and the islanders are proud that some of the soil on the island is French, having been brought over in the ballasts of ships.
Military Defense is the responsibility of France (see also Military of France). The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ...
Organization The French armed forces are divided into four branches: French Army (Armée de Terre), including Chasseurs Alpins French Foreign Legion Marine troops light aviation (ALAT - Aviation Légére de lArmée de Terre) engineers (Génie) [[Marine nationale|Navy] (Marine Nationale], including Naval Air naval fusiliers...
Miscellaneous topics Telephones - main lines in use: 4,000 (1994) Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1994) (SPM Telecom now offers GSM mobile phone service) Telephone system: domestic: NA international: radiotelephone communication with most countries in the world; 1 earth station in French domestic satellite system Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4, shortwave...
Saint Pierre and Miquelon has no railway and 114 km of highways (114 paved and 45 unpaved). ...
External links
Community, Culture and History Links - History of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (http://www.grandcolombier.com/english/history.html)
- St Pierre & Miquelon Online Community (http://www.grandcolombier.com/2003-english/index.html)
- Philatelic articles by David Allen (http://www.grandcolombier.com/2003-culture/poste/allen/index.html)
- The liberation of St Pierre & Miquelon December 24th 1941 by the Free French Naval Forces (http://www.grandcolombier.com/2003-histoire/1942/english.html)
- The Liberation of Saint Pierre and Miquelon by Richard Doody (http://worldatwar.net/article/miquelon/)
- Saint-Pierre & Miquelon Online Magazine (http://www.mathurin.com)
- Local Telecom Provider & Webcam (http://www.cheznoo.net/)
- St Pierre & Miquelon Television and Radio (http://www.rfo.fr/st_pierre_et_miquelon_ie17m.php)
- Violin Making Workshop (http://www.lutheriespm.com)
- Municipal Board of St-Pierre (http://www.mairie-stpierre.fr)
- Music festival and cultural events (http://artschipel.spmnet.com)
- St-Pierre Cultural and Sporting Center (http://www.ccspm.net)
Tourism and Travel Links
Other Links - Discover France! (http://www.discoverfrance.net/Colonies/St-Pierre_Miquelon.shtml)
- CIA World Factbook entry for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sb.html)
- SPMNET.com - Professionnal directory of St-Pierre & Miquelon (http://www.spmnet.com)
- Photos de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (http://clmarciniak.free.fr/)
- La Poste - mail service of St-Pierre and Miquelon (http://www.lapostespm.net)
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