RIGAUD HISTORY&CULTURE
This well-known private secondary school in Rigaud is housed in a historic college founded in the 19th century.
What is Collège Bourget?
This year marks the founding of Collège Saint-Louis as an international-education school.
What is 1988?
This type of instrument has keys and is one of the most common instruments in a jazz band.
What is the piano?
This Canadian province contains the largest number of lakes in the country.
What is Ontario?
These Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic traditionally traveled seasonally and are famous for their knowledge of Arctic environments.
Who are the Inuit?
This river forms part of the southern boundary of Rigaud before eventually flowing into the Ottawa River.
What is the Rigaud River?
When it was first established, Collège Saint-Louis had two different locations, one in this Montréal borough and the other in Lachine.
What is LaSalle?
This city in Louisiana is widely considered the birthplace of jazz.
What is New Orleans?
This Great Lake has the greatest surface area of all five.
What is Lake Superior?
This famous nomadic people traditionally lived across the grasslands of Mongolia and became famous under the leadership of Genghis Khan.
Who are the Mongols?
This natural feature of Rigaud is home to the sanctuary and has played an important role in both the town's religious and recreational history.
What is Mont Rigaud?
After its relocation, Collège Saint-Louis opened its doors to students at the new Lachine campus in this year.
What is 2013?
This New Orleans-born trumpeter became one of the most influential figures in jazz and helped popularize scat singing.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This large lake lies west of Hudson Bay and is connected to the Nelson River drainage system.
What is Lake Winnipeg?
The Sámi traditionally inhabit parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and this country.
What is Russia?
This explorer traveled through the Ottawa River region in the early 17th century, helping open the route to later exploration and trade.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
This three-story architectural feature now connects the historic building with the modern addition.
What is the glass atrium?
This brass instrument was Louis Armstrong's signature instrument.
What is the trumpet?
This Yukon lake is one of the headwaters of the Yukon River.
What is Tagish Lake?
These traditionally nomadic people of the Sahara are found across countries including Mali, Niger, Algeria and Libya.
Who are the Tuareg?
This feature of Mont Rigaud combines Catholic religious heritage with a landscape that has also become important for recreation.
What is the Lourdes grotto/pilgrimage site?
In 2015, the new Collège Saint-Louis project received this distinction from Quebec's professional architectural organization.
What is the Public Prize at the Ordre des architectes du Québec Excellence Awards?
This jazz style developed in the 1940s and is characterized by fast tempos, complex harmonies and virtuosic improvisation.
What is bebop?
Located almost entirely in Nunavut, this lake is the largest lake located entirely within Canada by surface area.
What is Great Bear Lake?
This Indigenous people historically occupied a large area of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and were traditionally mobile hunter-gatherers.
Who are the Apache?