August 4, 2026

Sioux Lookout, in northwestern Ontario, became a town in 1912 as an important stop on this Canadian railway built between 1905 and 1913. The same railway also helped a town in Quebec's Abitibi region grow. Which Abitibi town, named after a French officer who fought at the Battle of Sainte-Foy, is it?

A Senneterre
B Savant Lake
C La Sarre
D Thunder Bay

Senneterre sits on the Bell River and is a hub for logging and mining in eastern Abitibi in Quebec. It was on the eastern end of the National Transcontinental Railway's Cochrane-to-Quebec-City section, which eventually became part of the Canadian National Railway. Sioux Lookout in northwestern Ontario was another important stop on the same railway.

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