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St. Joseph is a city in Andrew and Buchanan counties and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. [3] Located on the Missouri River, it is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas.
St. Joseph Island is in the northwestern part of Lake Huron.It is part of the Canadian province of Ontario.At 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) in area, it is the sixth largest lake island in the world; the second largest island on Lake Huron, following Manitoulin Island; and the third largest of all the islands on the Great Lakes, trailing Manitoulin and Lake Superior's Isle Royale.
Fort Saint Joseph was a fort established on land granted to the Jesuits by King Louis XIV; it was located on what is now the south side of the present-day town of Niles, Michigan. Père Claude-Jean Allouez established the Mission de Saint-Joseph in the 1680s.
Now, every Thursday before Memorial Day hundreds of residents gather to plant over 60,000 petunias up and down Main Street. [70] Venetian-The Venetian Festival began in 1931 with a very simple boat show in Charlevoix's Round Lake and has now grown into a week-long festival bringing in tens of thousands of people and costing $200,000. Venetian ...
San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Italian: [san ˈladdzaro deʎʎ arˈmɛːni], lit. "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; Armenian: Սուրբ Ղազար, romanized: Surb Ghazar) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregation, since 1717.
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [18] it is now named after Mount Royal, [19] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [20]
The 2007 age-grade Rugby Canada National Championship Festival was held in the city. [142] St. John's hosts North America's oldest annual sporting event, the Royal St. John's Regatta. St. John's is home to North America's oldest annual sporting event, the Royal St. John's Regatta, which dates back to at least 1816. The event is important enough ...
St. Joseph County, colloquial St. Joe County by residents, is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 272,912, [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in Indiana. Formed in 1830, it was named for the St. Joseph River which flows through it to Lake Michigan. The county seat is South Bend. [2] St.