Welcome to La Rafale ...

Although we found mention of La Rafale during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how La Rafale was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

We've added La Rafale to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with La Rafale, please Contact Us.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that La Rafale might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: EST- Heure Normale de l'Est (HNE), EDT- Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE).

Note: If you travel south from La Rafale (for example, toward Charlo (NB)), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Atlantic Time Zone (AST/ADT).

We believe that La Rafale would be found within the (418) & (581)<2> area codes.

Communities near La Rafale ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near La Rafale.

Grand Cascapedia
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Cascapedia came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Cascapedia
Cascapedia - Saint Jules
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cascapedia - Saint Jules came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascapedia - Saint Jules
Cascapedia
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cascapedia came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascapedia
Grande Cascapedia
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grande Cascapedia came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grande Cascapedia
Gesgapegiag
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gesgapegiag came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gesgapegiag
Maria
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maria came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maria
Saint Omer
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Omer came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Omer
Nouvelle Ouest
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nouvelle Ouest came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nouvelle Ouest
Nouvelle
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nouvelle came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nouvelle
Saint Edgar
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Edgar came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Edgar

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Quebec: https://www.quebec.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past La Rafale and then turned east". While La Rafale could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added La Rafale as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that La Rafale could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>	Area code (581) is an overlay for area code (418).
<3>	If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.