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Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec

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51: 67: 42: 468:, en route from L'Ancienne-Lorette to Baie-Comeau, exploded and crashed at Sault-au-Cochon, killing 23 persons (19 passengers and 4 crew members). It was the result of a homemade bomb made by Genereux Ruest, a watchmaker in Quebec who had placed it on board with the help of his sister Marguerite Ruest Pitre. The plot was hatched by one Albert Guay, a jeweler in Quebec who wanted to get rid of his wife Rita ( 881: 789: 803: 781: 767: 698: 74: 394:). The stop is situated the mouth of a small stream that rushes down the steep slope of the promontory. In 1676 it was reported that the stream used to be called Gouffre ("Chasm") River but had been given the name Sault au Cochon since. This name comes from the presence of Porpoise and Beluga whale in the Saint Lawrence River that were formerly called 579: 398:("sea pigs") in French. The name "Saut au Cochon" was used by Jean Deshayes on his map of 1695, and it was thereafter also applied to the surrounding interior lands that were not part of the seigneurial domain of the 210: 1027: 1086: 869: 1017: 886: 330: 169: 847: 353:
passes through the territory right along the Saint Lawrence River. The territory is named after a former rail stop on this line located about halfway between Cape Tourmente and
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Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités:
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The territory has been used for logging and it was home to a sawmill in the 1930s. A small section of
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10,000 ($ 129,000 today). All three were found guilty and hanged in the early 1950s.
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remains, some 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) north-east of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré (
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Morel), one of the passengers, and cash-in an insurance policy worth
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that encompasses the promontory from Cape Tourmente to
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Unorganized territory

Location within La Côte-de-Beaupré RCM
Sault-au-Cochon is located in Central Quebec
47°12′N 70°38′W / 47.200°N 70.633°W / 47.200; -70.633
Canada
Province
Quebec
Region
Capitale-Nationale
RCM
La Côte-de-Beaupré
Federal riding
Montmorency—Charlevoix
—Haute-Côte-Nord

Prov. riding
Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré
Time zone
UTC−5
EST
DST
UTC−4
EDT
unorganized territory
Capitale-Nationale
La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality
Saint Lawrence River
Petite-Rivière-Saint-François
Charlevoix Railway
Baie-Saint-Paul
Quebec City

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