Pointe-au-Père

Pointe-au-Père is a district of the city of Rimouski, Quebec, which is located in the central part of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec at the mouth of the St.

Photo: Boréal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Suburb
Description: administrative sector in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, former town
Also known as: “Father Point”, “Pointe-au-Pere”, and “Pointe-au-Père, Quebec”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père and HMCS Onondaga.

Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père

Museum

The Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père is a maritime museum located in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, that displays 200 years of maritime history, and includes the first submarine open since 2009 to the public in Canada, HMCS Onondaga.

HMCS Onondaga

Photo: Letartean, CC BY 3.0.

HMCS Onondaga is a decommissioned Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. Built in the mid-1960s, Onondaga operated primarily with the Maritime Forces Atlantic until her decommissioning in 2000 as the last Canadian Oberon.

Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The 3rd Pointe-Au-Père Lighthouse was built in 1909 in the city of Pointe-au-Père, near Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. This city was well known in naval circles as the location of the pilot station for the Bas-Saint-Laurent zone.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard and Sainte-Luce.

Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard

Village

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Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality. Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard is situated 5 km southeast of Pointe-au-Père.

Sainte-Luce

Village

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Sainte-Luce is a municipality in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. The population in the Canada 2021 Census was 2,845. Sainte-Luce is situated 7 km northeast of Pointe-au-Père.

Pointe-au-Père

Categories: neighborhood, administrative sector, parish municipality, municipality, city or town of Quebec, former municipality, and locality
Location: Rimouski, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Southeastern Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude

48.51359° or 48° 30′ 49″ north

Longitude

-68.4633° or 68° 27′ 48″ west

Elevation

11 metres (36 feet)

Open location code

87WHGG7P+CM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4671876143

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

7304350

Wikidata ID

Q4335

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pointe-au-Père” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Pointe-au-Père”
Dutch: “Pointe-au-Père”
French: “Pointe-au-Père”
French: “Sainte-Anne de la Pointe-au-Père”
French: “Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pointe-au-Père”
German: “Pointe-au-Père”
Italian: “Pointe-au-Père”
Japanese: “ポワント＝オー＝ペール”
Spanish: “Pointe-au-Pere”
Spanish: “Pointe-au-Père”
Swedish: “Pointe-au-Père”
“Pointe-au-Père”

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