Valleyfield, a town of Quebec, on the St Lawrence, 54 miles by rail SW. of Montreal. A fall of 15 feet supplies water-power, and the place contains a cotton-mill employing 1000 hands, woolen, flour, and saw mills, canning and door and sash factories, &c. Pop. 6500.
Valleyfield
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 420
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