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Welcome to Pointe Claire ...

Although we found mention of Pointe Claire during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Pointe Claire 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 Pointe Claire to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Pointe Claire - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Pointe Claire, please Contact Us.


A typical abbreviation for Pointe Claire: Pte. Claire

Communities Also Named Pointe Claire ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Pointe Claire - they are located in Louisiana and Quebec (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pointe Claire.

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 Pointe Claire and then turned west". While Pointe Claire could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Pointe Claire 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 Pointe Claire 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.









 

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