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La Prairie| City in southern Québec, Canada, on the south bank of the St Lawrence River (here widened into the Bassin de Laprairie), 13 km/8 mi southeast of central Montréal; population (1991) 14,900. Primarily a residential suburb, it has some diversified industry and summer resort trade. |
History Granted as a seigneurie to Jesuits in 1647, it developed slowly; in 1691 it repelled an attack by New England forces. In 1836 the first railway in Canada ran from here to St Jean-sur-Richelieu. |
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| Terre Sans Frontieres, La Prairie, MB: To undertake international development work in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Chad, Burundi, Congo, Honduras, Haiti, and the Philippines, focussing on formal and non-formal education, as well as some health (HIV/AIDS) projects to achieve sustainable development. ca) Portage la Prairie, MB CFRY AM-FM 350 River Road, Box 920, Portage la Prairie, MB RIN ON6; 204/239-5111,866/239-5111, FAX: 204/857-3456 Web site: www. Moritz, with a spa by La Prairie and a dining room by Gabriel Kreuther and the Mandarin Oriental, in the new Time Warner Center, where Opulence abounds. |