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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 433 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOREL , a See also:

town and See also:port of entry of See also:Quebec, See also:Canada, See also:capital of See also:Richelieu See also:county, 42 M. N.E. of See also:Montreal, at the confluence of the Richelieu and St See also:Lawrence See also:rivers. Pop. (1901), 7057. It is on the See also:Grand See also:Trunk and the Quebec See also:Southern See also:railways, and is a port of See also:call for the Montreal and Quebec See also:river steamers. It contains See also:iron and See also:leather manufactories, and See also:shipbuilding is carried on. It occupies the site of a fort built in 1665 by A. de See also:Tracy to guard the route by way of the Richelieu to See also:Lake See also:Champlain and the See also:Hudson, and is named after the first commandant of the See also:garrison.

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