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Notre Dame Mountains
noun
- a mountain range in eastern Quebec, Canada, an extension of the Green Mountains in Vermont and a portion of the Appalachian Mountains: about 500 miles (800 kilometers) long, rising about 2,000 feet (610 meters).
Word History and Origins
Origin of Notre Dame Mountains1
Example Sentences
In the province of Ottawa, to the south of the St. Lawrence, there is a group of bold hills similar in many ways to the Green Mountains, known as the Notre Dame Mountains, which decreases in height when traced northward and merge with a roughened plateau which extends far to the northeast and embraces the Gasp� Peninsula and the table-land and hills of New Brunswick.
Mount Sutton, the highest elevation in the Notre Dame Mountains, is 4,000 feet high, and several other forest-covered mountain-like hills range in elevation from 1,000 to 3,000 feet.
The main axis of disturbance and the highest remaining land runs through the south-eastern part of Quebec, forming the Notre Dame Mountains, and terminates in the Gasp� peninsula as the Shickshock Mountains.
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