Grand-Mère
Grand-Mère is a settlement and former municipality in central Quebec, Canada on the Saint-Maurice River. As a result of the municipal reorganization in Quebec which took effect at the beginning of 2002, Grand-Mère now forms part of the City of Shawinigan.Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Post office
- Description: former town in Quebec, Canada, merged into Shawinigan
- Also known as: “Grand-Mere” and “Grand-Mère, Quebec”
- Neighbors: Grandes-Piles and Shawinigan
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Centrale de Grand-Mère and Grand-Mère station.
Centrale de Grand-Mère
Power station
Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Centrale de Grand-Mère is a power station, which is situated 1½ km east of Grand-Mère.
Grand-Mère station
Railway stop
Grand-Mère is a settlement and former municipality in central Quebec, Canada on the Saint-Maurice River. As a result of the municipal reorganization in Quebec which took effect at the beginning of 2002, Grand-Mère now forms part of the City of Shawinigan. Grand-Mère station is situated 1½ km southeast of Grand-Mère.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lac-à-la-Tortue and Grandes-Piles.
Lac-à-la-Tortue
Suburb
Lac-à-la-Tortue, is a sector of the city of Shawinigan since 2002, it is located in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada. The use includes the Lac-à-la-Tortue sector in Batiscanie, the common name for the watershed of the Batiscan River. Lac-à-la-Tortue is situated 5 km east of Grand-Mère.
Grandes-Piles
Photo: Veillg1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grandes-Piles is a recreational tourism and picturesque locality of the Moyen-Mauricie in the Laurentian Shield, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality of Mékinac, in Mauricie, in Quebec.
Grand-Mère
- Categories: town, administrative sector, city or town of Quebec, and former municipality
- Location: Shawinigan, Mauricie, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Grand-Mère” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Grand-Mère”
- Chinese: “大梅勒”
- Dutch: “Grand-Mère”
- French: “Grand-Mère”
- Italian: “Grand-Mère”
- Japanese: “グランメル”
- Korean: “그랑메르”
- Persian: “گراندمق، کبک”
- Spanish: “Grand-Mère”
- Turkish: “Grand-Mère”
- “Grand-Mère”
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