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.- 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
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.Considered the cradle of commercial… Lac-à-la-Tortue is situated 5 km east of Grand-Mère.
Grandes-Piles
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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Latitude
46.61675° or 46° 37′ 0″ north
Longitude
-72.69912° or 72° 41′ 57″ west
Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)
Open location code
87R9J882+M9
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Grand-Mère” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Grand-Mère”
- Chinese: “大梅勒”
- Dutch: “Grand-Mère”
- French: “Grand-Mère”
- French: “Grand’Mère”
- French: “Saint-Paul-de-Grand-Mère”
- French: “Saint-Paul-de-Grand’Mère”
- Italian: “Grand-Mère”
- Japanese: “グランメル”
- Korean: “그랑메르”
- Persian: “گراندمق، کبک”
- Persian: “گراندمق”
- Spanish: “Grand-Mère”
- Turkish: “Grand-Mère”
- Urdu: “گرینڈ-میرے”
- “Grand-Mère”
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