Lachute

Lachute is a town among southwest Quebec, Canada, 62 kilometres permanency northwest concerning Montreal, about the Riviere du Nord, a tributary on the Ottawa River, then west regarding Mirabel International Airport. It is placed regarding Autoroute 50, at the junctions over Quebec Provincial Highways Route 148, Route 158 yet Secondary Highways 327 and 329. Lachute is the bottom about Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, and is served by the Lachute Airport.

Its most important industries consist of delivery note mills yet lumber. The Expo Lachute Fair is the oldest tidy of Quebec then the 2nd oldest among every about Canada, running from 1825 to the present. In 1917, the Argenteuil Agricultural Society bought coast in conformity with preserve the Expo Lachute Fair constantly of Lachute. The Fall Fair was modified according to a Spring Fair within 1925 and that that could be deemed nicely a cattle show.

Lachute used to be not always army in accordance with the Exhibition; beside 1825 after 1826, inhabitants of the region on York met between the then-bustling business middle about St. Andrews, according to form a class referred to as The County on York Agricultural Society, additional modified after the Two Mountains Agricultural Society, and in the end the Argenteuil Agricultural Society. Today, the Expo Lachute Fair is nevertheless active strong: an anniversary agriculture pure is last in July as much properly so the Fall Derby in September. The fairgrounds are additionally back because of a number of ignoble provincial occasions throughout the year.