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LACHINE , an incorporated See also:town in Jacques See also:Cartier See also:county, See also:Quebec, See also:Canada, 8 m. W. of See also:Montreal, on See also:Lake St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, an expansion of the St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence See also:river, and at the upper end of the Lachine See also:canal. Pop. (1901) 5561. It is a station on the See also:Grand See also:Trunk railway and a See also:port of See also:call for steamers plying between Montreal and the See also:Great Lakes. It is a favourite summer resort for the See also:people of Montreal. It was named in 1669
mockery of its then owner, See also:Robert Cavelier de la Salle (1643-'687), who dreamed of a westward passage to See also:China. In 1689 it was the See also:scene of a terrible See also:massacre of the See also:French by the See also:Iroquois.
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