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Synonyms for bizard or Related words with bizard
pierrefonds
repentigny
boucherville
ahuntsic
marieville
beloeil
soulanges
montarville
grondines
dolbeau
charlesbourg
beauceville
hochelaga
kamouraska
matane
papineauville
assomption
pincourt
deschambault
polyvalente
menehould
napierville
chomedey
cartierville
longueuil
rouville
senneterre
shippagan
laprairie
chambly
plessisville
lavaltrie
brossard
bellechasse
rosaire
lachute
pierreville
memramcook
dorion
chibougamau
francheville
amqui
yamachiche
berthierville
louiseville
outremont
beauharnois
gardeur
ormeaux
salaberry
Examples of "bizard"
Jacques
Bizard
Bridge, which connects Île
Bizard
to Montreal Island, was named after him.
Sainte-Geneviève and Île
Bizard
are connected by the Jacques
Bizard
Bridge. Île
Bizard
contains part of the Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park as well as the Boisé de l'Île
Bizard
Nature Park. Sainte-Geneviève's features include the Cégep Gérald-Godin. Plans have been advanced in the past to cross Île
Bizard
with an autoroute as part of a beltway around Montreal, but these have so far come to nothing mainly out of concern for the island's nature areas.
L'Île-
Bizard
is a former municipality current borough located on Île
Bizard
, an island northwest of the Island of Montreal. It was originally incorporated as a municipality on 1 July 1855 as Paroisse de Saint-Raphael-de l'Ile-
Bizard
.
Bois-de-l'Île-
Bizard
Nature Park () is a large park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the island of Île
Bizard
in the borough of L'Île-
Bizard
–Sainte-Geneviève.
Jacques
Bizard
(1642 – December 5, 1692) was seigneur of île Bonaventure, later renamed île-
Bizard
. Born in Benaix, Neuchatel in Switzerland to a Calvinist pastor,
Bizard
served in the Venetian army where he met Louis de Buade, better known as Comte de Frontenac. The two men later served together in the French army where
Bizard
was made aide-de-camp to Frontenac.
In 1678, Jacques
Bizard
received the right to Île
Bizard
which at the time was named after Bonaventure. The seigneury of
Bizard
remained the property of this family until the British Conquest. It was then held by Montreal merchant Pierre Foretier and his heirs. Île
Bizard
began to be populated in the second half of the eighteenth century.
In Quebec, the small Laval-sur-le-Lac–Île-
Bizard
Ferry operates seasonally across the Rivière des Prairies from Laval-sur-le-Lac to the Île
Bizard
.
The seasonal Laval-sur-le-Lac–Île-
Bizard
Ferry, which does not operate in winter, connects Laval-sur-le-Lac with Île
Bizard
.
Jacques
Bizard
Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Rivière des Prairies and connects L'Île
Bizard
to Montreal Island. Except for a cable ferry that connects Île
Bizard
with Laval-sur-le-Lac, it is the only access to Île
Bizard
, which had a population of 13,861 at the 2001 census. It carries three lanes of Jacques
Bizard
Boulevard, including one reversible lane. As of 2008, it is being widened to accommodate a bicycle path. The ferry, which crosses the north branch of the Rivière des Prairies, operates only seasonally between April and November.
The Montreal Public Libraries Network operates the Île-
Bizard
library.
It was formerly a separate municipality named Ville de L'Île-
Bizard
, but was forcefully merged with of the city of Montreal, and made into the borough of L'Île-
Bizard
–Sainte-Geneviève.
Bélanger is a native of Île
Bizard
, and was a city councillor since 1991.
Île
Bizard
is an island near the Island of Montreal in the Hochelaga Archipelago region.
L'Île-
Bizard
–Sainte-Geneviève is a borough ("arrondissement") of the city of Montreal.
Île
Bizard
have also produced the francophone musical groups Exterio and
Parc-Nature-du-Bois-de-l'île-
Bizard
is located in the centre of the island.
The district includes the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, L'Île-
Bizard
–Sainte-Geneviève and the municipality of Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
In 1787, he had married Marie-Élizabeth, daughter of Pierre Foretier, Seigneur d'Île
Bizard
. Madame Foucher's sister was married to The Hon. Denis-Benjamin Viger, Joint Prime Minister of the Canadas. Foucher died at Montreal in 1829. His daughter Marie-Léocadie married her first cousin The Hon. Hugues Heney, who had inherited their grandfather's Seigneury at Île
Bizard
.
On January 1, 2002, the municipalities of L'Île-
Bizard
, Sainte-Geneviève, and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue were merged into the city of Montreal as the borough of L'Île-
Bizard
—Sainte-Geneviève—Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. When Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue voted to demerge from Montreal, the borough was reorganized into its present form on January 1, 2006.
The establishment of the civil parish of Sainte-Geneviève, which was named after the church, occurred in 1845. On June 9, 1859, it was recognized as the Municipality of the Village of Sainte-Geneviève. In 1893, it was connected to Ile
Bizard
across the Rivière des Prairies by one of the Jacques
Bizard
Bridges, which replaced a ferry.