Notre Dame Mountains

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. 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

First recorded in 1845–50

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.

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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.

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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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