Wakefield
Wakefield is a picturesque village Municipality of La Pêche on the Gatineau River in the Gatineau Hills near Ottawa. It is on the Quebec side of the river, but is predominantly English-speaking.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: municipality in Quebec
- Also known as: “Wakefield, Quebec”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vorlage and Maclaren Cemetery.
Vorlage
Vorlage is a ski hill located at the village of Wakefield, within the municipality of La Pêche, Quebec, in the Gatineau Hills north of Ottawa, Ontario. It consists of 18 runs, 13 of which have night skiing. It was opened in 1941 and has a terrain park.Maclaren Cemetery
Cemetery
Maclaren Cemetery is a small cemetery in the town of Wakefield, Quebec and the final resting place for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Established near the 1870s, the cemetery is located in the clearing below the hills bordering the Gatineau River and is the resting place for Scottish settlers in the area.
Wakefield
- Category: locality
- Location: La Pêche, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
45.64° or 45° 38′ 24″ northLongitude
-75.9293° or 75° 55′ 45″ westElevation
115 metres (377 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA WAKOpen location code
87Q6J3QC+X7OpenStreetMap ID
node 267273530OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6175109Wikidata ID
Q928044
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Swedish—“Wakefield” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Ўэйкфілд”
- Catalan: “Wakefield”
- Cebuano: “Wakefield”
- Chinese: “維克菲爾德”
- Chinese: “韦克菲尔德”
- Danish: “Wakefield”
- Dutch: “Wakefield”
- French: “Wakefield”
- German: “Wakefield”
- Japanese: “ウェークフィールド”
- Japanese: “ウェイクフィールド”
- Russian: “Уэйкфилд”
- Spanish: “Wakefield, Quebec”
- Spanish: “Wakefield”
- Swedish: “Wakefield, Québec”
- Swedish: “Wakefield”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Wakefield”. Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.