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Saint Lawrence River |
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Saint Lawrence RiverRiver, southern Quebec and southeastern Ontario, Canada. It flows northeast out of Lake Ontario into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and is about 760 mi (1,225 km) long. It passes through the Thousand Islands and for about 120 mi (195 km) forms the boundary between New York and Ontario. Entering Quebec, it widens into Lake St. Francis, then flows past Montreal island. Below Quebec city it widens to 90 mi (145 km) at its mouth in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Major tributaries include the Ottawa, Saguenay, Richelieu, and Manicouagan rivers, all in Canada. It links the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes through the Saint Lawrence Seaway. |
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| She was a nun at the Assumptionist convent in Baie Comeau on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence river, and there is a letter that I remember seeing in which Dawson gives his impressions of Quebec City and the way it had kept its Catholic character. From its start as a small fur trading settlement on an island in the Saint Lawrence River in the mid 1600s, the City of Montreal has grown to a population of more than 1. UDS earlier announced a seven-year agreement with Sonatrach, the Algerian national oil company, for an additional 35,000 barrels per day of light, low-sulfur crude oil for delivery to the company's Quebec refinery located northeast of Montreal on the Saint Lawrence River. |
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