Welcome to Portage Saint Helier ...
Although we found mention of Portage Saint Helier during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Portage Saint Helier 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 Portage Saint Helier to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Portage Saint Helier, please Contact Us.
A typical abbreviation for Portage Saint Helier: Portage St. Helier
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Portage Saint Helier 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).
Area Codes for Portage Saint Helier: 418, 367 & 581<2>
Communities near Portage Saint Helier ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Portage Saint Helier.
- Cloridorme
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Petite Vallee
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Grand Etang
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pointe Jaune
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Saint Yvon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Saint Maurice de l'Echouerie
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Petite Anse
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Pointe a la Fregate
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fontenelle
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Riviere au Renard
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
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 Portage Saint Helier and then turned east". While Portage Saint Helier could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Portage Saint Helier 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 Portage Saint Helier 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> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 418 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 367 or 581. New phone numbers in the Portage Saint Helier area will be assigned with one of these codes: 418, 367 or 581. As a result, placing a call in the Portage Saint Helier area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |