Trois-Rivières (can)

Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières ranks 13,953rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chomutov, Canton of Zürich, and Welland. Memorable people born in Trois-Rivières include Jean Béliveau, Laurence Vincent Lapointe, and Elissa Alarie. Trois-Rivières has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes. Trois-Rivières is located in Canada.

Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour. It is part of the densely populated Quebec City–Windsor Corridor and is approximately halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. Trois-Rivières is the economic and cultural hub of the Mauricie region. The settlement was founded by French colonists on July 4, 1634, as the second permanent settlement in New France, after Quebec City in 1608. Read more on Wikipedia