Raimbault Creek was a watercourse on the

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in present-day

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and Saint-Laurent which drained into the

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follows the path of the former creek between the two summits of

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. In the 1950s or early 1960s, the city of Montreal covered over the creek, making it into an underground collector sewer. It was possibly named after Pierre Raimbault (1671–1740), landowner and notary.

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