Shawinigan-Sud

Shawinigan-Sud is a predominantly French-speaking settlement in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River. In 1996, its population was 11,804.

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Type: Suburb
Description: sector in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Also known as: “Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec”
Neighbors: Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Saint-Boniface, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, and Shawinigan

Places of Interest

Highlights include Notre-Dame-de-la-Présentation Church and Former N.A.C. Power House.

Notre-Dame-de-la-Présentation Church

Church

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Former N.A.C. Power House

Museum

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Former N.A.C. Power House is a museum, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Shawinigan-Sud.

Shawinigan station

Railway station

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Shawinigan station is located on Chemin du CN in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. It is a former CN Rail station and is currently used by Via Rail for two routes running from Montreal. Shawinigan station is situated 3½ km north of Shawinigan-Sud.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shawinigan and Saint-Boniface.

Shawinigan

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Shawinigan is a city of 50,000 people in the Mauricie region of Quebec. It arose because of its tremendous hydro-electric generation capacity, and is now focusing on tourism.

Saint-Boniface

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Saint-Boniface is a parish municipality of the Maskinongé Regional county municipality, in Moyenne-Mauricie. The residents of Saint-Boniface benefit from a picturesque parish, with rural charms, while being close to the shops and services that Shawinigan offers.

Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel

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Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel is a charming locality in Lower-Mauricie, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality of Les Chenaux, in Mauricie.

Shawinigan-Sud

Categories: village municipality of Quebec, city or town of Quebec, administrative sector, and locality
Location: Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude

46.51949° or 46° 31′ 10″ north

Longitude

-72.74473° or 72° 44′ 41″ west

Open location code

87R9G794+Q4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 360895710

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

Wikidata ID

Q3481603

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Shawinigan-Sud” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Shawinigan-Sud”
Dutch: “Shawinigan-Sud”
French: “Almaville”
French: “Notre-Dame-de-la-Présentation-d’Almaville”
French: “Shawinigan-Sud”
Spanish: “Shawinigan-Sud”
Turkish: “Shawinigan-Sud”
“Shawinigan-Sud”

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