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lachine (dest)
Lachine
Lachine
is a specific referring to a number of places in the Montreal area:
Lachine, Quebec
, now a borough of
Montreal
;
the
Lachine Rapids
;
the
Lachine Canal
;
the
Lachine Canal National Historic Site
;
The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site
.
The name comes from the French
la Chine,
"
China
," a derisive reference to
Robert Cavelier de La Salle
's belief that beyond the Lachine Rapids was a sea route to the Orient.
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