Lachine

Lachine is a specific referring to a number of places in the Montreal area:

Lachine, Quebec - the community;
Lachine (borough) - the borough;
the Lachine Rapids;
the Lachine Canal;
The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site;
the Lachine train station on the Dorion-Rigaud Line of the Agence métropolitaine de transport commuter train network;
the federal electoral district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine.

The name comes from the French la Chine, "China," a derisive reference to Robert Cavalier de La Salle's belief that beyond the Lachine Rapids was a sea route to the Orient.

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