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The geographical area of this memorial site southwest corner of Quebec, Canada, and the men and women with ties to the area who have served during the two World Wars and subsequent military conflicts.
The area covered is bounded roughly by the St. Lawrence River from just outside of the town of Chateauguay, Quebec west to St-Regis, and extending southward across the rural counties of Huntingdon and Beauharnois to the U.S. border. This region covers about 2,300 km² (890 sq mi) mostly on the Quebec side, and approximately 130 km² (890 sq mi) on the US side - there has always been a very tight relationship between the border communities, and many served in each other’s armed services. In 1914 the population of the area was about 53,000, concentrated in two urban manufacturing centers - Valleyfield and Beauharnois - supported by a handful of agriculture-based towns such as Huntingdon, Ormstown, Sainte-Martine, Howick, and Saint-Timothée. The majority of populated areas were small villages, hamlets, and parishes like Franklin Centre, Saint-Anicet, and Dundee. From this area, approximately 1,700 individuals had some degree of service in the First World War, and roughly the same for the Second World War.
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