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SOREL , a See also: town and See also: port of entry of See also: Quebec, See also: Canada, capital of See also: Richelieu county, 42 M
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N.E. of See also: Montreal, at the confluence of the Richelieu and St See also: Lawrence See also: rivers
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Pop
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(1901), 7057
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It is on the See also: Grand Trunk and the Quebec See also: Southern See also: railways, and is a port of See also: call for the Montreal and Quebec See also: river steamers
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It contains iron and See also: leather manufactories, and See also: shipbuilding is carried on
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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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