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Le 7 iour ie fut recognoistre une petite rivière par où vont quelquefois les
Sauvages à la guerre, qui se va rendre au sault de la rivière des Hiroquois: elle est fort plaisante, y ayant plus de trois lieues de circuit de prairies et forces terres qui se peuvent labourer. Elle est à une lieue du
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and collects the waters of Saint-Claude stream (coming from the east) whose main tributaries are the "ruisseau des Bois" and the "Battle Creek". In this last segment, the Saint-Jacques River runs westward across a golf course and serving more or less of a boundary between the cities of
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In
December 2014, the City of Brossard acquired for a million dollars a strip of 50-meter (55-yard) wide riparian lands covering 9830 square meters (2½ acres), between Radisson Park and Taschereau Boulevard, with the objective of protecting this waterfront.
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includes public lands whose transfers to cities are yet to be completed. In the long term, this regional park project aims to encompass the Boisé de
Brossard (largely composed of private land) and the "Boisé de la Commune" in
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which it crosses in serpentine fashion. From this village, the river flows northwest (3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi) serpentine to the mouth of Saint-André Creek (coming from the southwest). Then the river runs north on
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at 1.0 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of the A10 junction and the A30, the Saint-Jacques River runs on 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) to the northwest in an agricultural zone until the
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region near the Saint
Lawrence River. As a result, it flows through and drains areas of sparse and dense population like agricultural towns and suburban cities on the
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The creation of the Saint-Jacques
Regional Park is sponsored by the Ville-Marie Priority Intervention Area Committee (ZIP). The area between Taschereau Boulevard and
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which it crosses at 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) north of the junction of the A10 and the A30. Then the river flows northwest (4.3 kilometres (2.7 mi) past the
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This article is about the river that flows from Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur to the Saint
Lawrence River. Not to be confused with
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of the soil. One notable oxbow lake along this river is located in the territory of
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The Saint-Jacques River flows first on 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi) to the north, passing west of the village of
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Saint-Jacques seen from North shore in Saint-Jacques park of
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A common characteristic of rivers, such as this one, that flow through
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Rivière Saint-Jacques, vu du parc
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grand sault, & une lieu & demie de la Place Royale.
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503:The Saint-Jacques River was first described by
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507:in his notes on his 1611 voyage along the
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682:Tributaries of the Saint Lawrence River
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280:south side: Saint-André Creek,
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484:Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park
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643:45.431693°N 73.490725°W
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125:56 m (184 ft)
32:River in Quebec, Canada
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672:Rivers of Montérégie
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559:on 23 September 2015
509:Saint Lawrence River
435:45.423666; -73.46843
308:Course from the head
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526:Samuel de Champlain
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661:Categories
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614:La Prairie
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457:La Prairie
421:73°28′06″W
418:45°25′25″N
405:meandering
253:Montérégie
237:La Prairie
85:Montérégie
368:route 134
330:, to the
243:Geography
150:Laprairie
57:Countries
667:Brossard
616:, a city
610:, a city
608:Brossard
586:See also
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