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Rivière-du-Loup is an unusual television market, as each of its stations has two transmitters in the city. The city's hilly terrain causes residents of the lower, western portions of the city to experience frequent signal dropout. That makes it all but impossible for a television station to serve the
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B-50 was returning a nuclear bomb to the United States. The bomb was released due to engine troubles, and then was destroyed in a non-nuclear detonation before it hit the ground. The explosion scattered nearly 100 pounds (45 kg) of uranium (U-238).
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Between 1850 and 1919, the city saw large increases in its anglophone population. Most of them left the region by the 1950s. Only 1% of the population still speaks English as its first language.
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entire area with a single transmitter. Accordingly, each station in the city has both a primary transmitter and a "nested" low-power
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where 100 pounds (45 kg) of radioactive uranium-238 was exploded. The radioactive material release was revealed in the 1980's.
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system in Rivière-du-Loup. Following the closedown of CKRT-DT, Radio-Canada would be seen on Vidéotron from
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of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of
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to serve viewers in the western part of the city who cannot receive the primary signal.
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operation, in which all three of its licensed stations are owned by the same company,
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total private dwellings, a change of 3.1% from its 2016 population of
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Rue LaFontaine is an important commercial street in Rivière-du-Loup.
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Unlike most larger cities in Quebec, Rivière-du-Loup has no local
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Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siècle
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Until August 2021, the city was served by Canada's only
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Rivière-du-Loup is a traditional stopping point between
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1950 Rivière-du-Loup B-50 nuclear weapon loss incident
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outlet, though Rimouski's CIVB-DT is available on the
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Quebec populated places on the Saint Lawrence River
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Rivière-du-Loup (disambiguation)
City
Downtown Rivière-du-Loup
Flag of Rivière-du-Loup
Official seal of Rivière-du-Loup
Location within Rivière-du-Loup RCM
Rivière-du-Loup is located in Eastern Quebec
47°50′N 69°32′W / 47.833°N 69.533°W / 47.833; -69.533
Canada
Province
Quebec
Region
Bas-Saint-Laurent
RCM
Rivière-du-Loup
Federal riding
Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup
Prov. riding
Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata
City
City
Urban
Metro
Time zone
UTC−5
EST
DST
UTC−4
EDT
Postal code(s)

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