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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: former municipality, district of Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Father Point” 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
HMCS Onondaga is an 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: Dennis G. Jarvis, 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
Photo: Mathieu19, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
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, and locality
- Location: Rimouski, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Southeastern Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.51359° or 48° 30′ 49″ northLongitude
-68.4633° or 68° 27′ 48″ westElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
87WHGG7P+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4671876143OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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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”
- 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”
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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 “Pointe-au-Père”. Photo: Boréal, CC BY-SA 3.0.