Laurentian (French: ''Laurentides'' or ''Laurentien'') may refer to: *Relation to

Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. " laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman ...

Geography

North America *

Laurentide Ice Sheet The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million year ...

, the continental glacier covering much of North America during the Pleistocene Epoch *Relating to the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

Canada *

Laurentia Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America. Many times in its past, Laurentia has been a separate continent, as it is now in the form of North America, althoug ...

, the craton at the heart of the North American continent *

Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield (french: Bouclier canadien ), also called the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the anc ...

, also known as the ''Laurentian Shield'' or the ''Laurentian Plateau''. *

Laurentian Divide The Laurentian Divide also called the Northern Divide and locally the '' height of land'', is a continental divide in central North America that separates the Hudson Bay watershed to the north from the Gulf of Mexico watershed to the south and t ...

, also known as the ''"Northern Divide"'', a continental divide in North America *

Laurentian Mountains The Laurentian Mountains (French: ''Laurentides'') are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of at Mont Raoul Blanchard, northeast of Quebec City in the Laurent ...

in Quebec * Laurentian Upland * Laurentian Abyss or ''Abyssal'' – a trench off the eastern coast of Canada * Laurentides, administrative region in Quebec * Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, in Quebec * Saint-Lin–Laurentides, a municipality in Quebec * Laurentien (Quebec City) (in French: quartier "Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides"), a borough in Quebec City, Quebec * Laurentian, Ontario, a neighbourhood within Valley East, Ontario

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Laurentian University Laurentian University (french: Université Laurentienne), officially the Laurentian University of Sudbury, is a mid-sized Bilingualism in Canada, bilingual public university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960. Lau ...

in Sudbury, Ontario * Laurentian Bank of Canada *

Laurentian language Laurentian, or St. Lawrence Iroquoian, was an Iroquoian language spoken until the late 16th century along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River in present-day Quebec and Ontario, Canada. It is believed to have disappeared with the extinctio ...

, a language in the Iroquoian family of languages * Laurentian French, the variety of the French language spoken in Canada *

Laurentian Codex Laurentian Codex or Laurentian Letopis (russian: Лаврентьевский список, Лаврентьевская летопись) is a collection of chronicles that includes the oldest extant version of the '' Primary Chronicle'' and its ...

, a Russian manuscript * Laurentian library or Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence, Italy * ''Laurentian'' (train), operated by the Delaware & Hudson * Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, member of the Dutch royal family * Laurentien (art supplies), a Canadian brand of art supplies * Laurentian Society, a student society of Trinity College, Dublin University * Laurentian Consensus, a Canadian political theory

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