Lac des Nations
Lac des Nations is an artificial lake located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It was created during the construction of a hydroelectric dam used to power the old Patton Co factory.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sherbrooke History Museum and Sherbrooke War Memorial.
Sherbrooke History Museum
Museum
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The Sherbrooke History Museum, Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke, is a museum and archives centre in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It preserves, studies, and exhibits the history of Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships.
Sherbrooke War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Cantons-de-l’Est, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sherbrooke War Memorial is a cenotaph erected in 1926, on King Street, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, to commemorate Sherbrooke residents who fought in World War I.
Amedée-Roy Stadium
Sports venue
Amedée Roy Stadium is a baseball stadium in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It serves as the home ballpark of an amateur baseball team, the Sherbrooke Expos, and has hosted baseball games during events such as the 2002 World Junior Baseball Championship and the 2013 Canada Games.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sherbrooke and Lennoxville.
Sherbrooke
Photo: Libertad-pb, Public domain.
Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region.
Lennoxville
Suburb
Photo: Nicola Zoghbi, FAL.
Lennoxville is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometres south of downtown Sherbrooke.
Huntingville
Hamlet
Photo: Mario Hains, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Huntingville is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km southeast of Lac des Nations.
Lac des Nations
- Type: River
- Description: lake in Canada
- Categories: lake and body of water
- Location: Estrie, Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.39603° or 45° 23′ 46″ northLongitude
-71.90727° or 71° 54′ 26″ westElevation
176 metres (577 feet)Open location code
87QC93WV+C3OpenStreetMap ID
way 9941830OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
6012543Wikidata ID
Q3215671
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lac des Nations” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lac des Nations”
- Dutch: “Lac des Nations”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره لاك ديس ناتيونس”
- French: “lac des Nations”
- French: “Lac des Nations”
- Swedish: “Lac des Nations”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lac des Nations”. Photo: Libertad-pb, Public domain.