Contrecœur
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Contrecœur () is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 9,480. Contrecœur is approximately northeast of Montreal and is accessible via Autoroute 30, the main road from the southwest, which continues on to Sorel-Tracy.
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- Contrecœur
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- City
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- Moulin à vent de Contrecoeur appelé "Moulin Chaput", construit en 1742
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- À cœur vaillant tout est possible
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- Location within Marguerite-D'Youville RCM.
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- Canada Southern Quebec
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- Location in southern Quebec.
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- Montérégie
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- RCM
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- Marguerite-D'Youville
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- Settled
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- 1681
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Contrecœur () is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 9,480. Contrecœur is approximately northeast of Montreal and is accessible via Autoroute 30, the main road from the southwest, which continues on to Sorel-Tracy.
==History== thumb|Plaque honouring pioneers of the town of Contrecœur In 1672, Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur, a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, originally from Saint-Chef, Isère, France, was granted a seigneury by King Louis XIV. He and 68 other pioneers founded the town in 1681, and it is named in his honour. A migratory bird sanctuary is located near the town on Contrecœur Island. Contrecœur is currently twinned with Saint-Chef, in southeast France, and has been since 1993.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contrecœur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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