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Buckingham

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Buckingham

City in southwestern Québec, Canada, 27 km/17 mi northeast of Ottawa, on the Lièvre River; population (1991) 10,500. It is the service centre for a mining (phosphates, graphite, and mica), lumbering, and dairying area, and has pulp and paper mills and chemical plants.

Founded in the early 1800s, Buckingham is also the gateway to a hunting and fishing region.



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