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SOREL

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 433 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOREL  , a

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town and
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port of entry of
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Quebec,
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Canada, capital of Richelieu county, 42 M . N.E. of
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Montreal, at the confluence of the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers . Pop . (1901), 7057 . It is on the
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Grand Trunk and the Quebec
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Southern
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railways, and is a port of call for the Montreal and Quebec
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river steamers . It contains iron and leather manufactories, and
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shipbuilding is carried on . It occupies the site of a fort built in 1665 by A. de Tracy to guard the route by way of the Richelieu to Lake Champlain and the Hudson, and is named after the first commandant of the garrison .

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