Beauchamp (Quebec) - Tidbits, Odds-and-Ends

Communities Also Named Beauchamp ...

We found two communities that share the name Beauchamp.

Within Quebec, the name Beauchamp is unique.

Beyond Quebec, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Scott County
  - This Beauchamp is located in Scott County and lies 1,493 miles [2,402.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
  - For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scott County community of Beauchamp.
- Illinois
  - Washington County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Beauchamp [Washington County].

How Far From Beauchamp to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Beauchamp to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Beauchamp and extending to:

The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 279 miles [449 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Beauchamp to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 16 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,305 miles [8,537.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,028 miles [9,701.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,904 miles [6,282.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Beauchamp) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Beauchamp. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.5878, Longitude: -70.1242
<2>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Beauchamp 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.
<3>	While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>	The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Beauchamp to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<5>	The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 302.662 degrees.
<6>	The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 298.835 degrees.
<7>	The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 297.801 degrees.