Lachine

Lachine is a specific referring to a number of places in the Montreal area: *Lachine, Quebec, now a borough of Montreal; *the Lachine Rapids; *the Lachine Canal; *the Lachine Canal National Historic Site; *The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site. The name comes from the French ''la Chine,'' "China," a derisive reference to Robert Cavelier de La Salle's belief that beyond the Lachine Rapids was a sea route to the Orient.

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