Welcome to Les Petites Terres ...
Although we found mention of Les Petites Terres during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Les Petites Terres 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 Les Petites Terres to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Les Petites Terres, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Les Petites Terres 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).
Communities near Les Petites Terres ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Les Petites Terres.
- Trois Rivieres
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Cap de la Madeleine
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Trois Rivieres Ouest
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Shawinigan Sud
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Nicolet
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicolet
- Louiseville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Saint Louis de France
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Pointe du Lac
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Saint Boniface
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Berthierville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
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 Les Petites Terres and then turned west". While Les Petites Terres could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Les Petites Terres 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Les Petites Terres 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. |