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| Location | Laforest, ON Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°1′55.49″N81°12′38.76″W / 47.0320806°N 81.2107667°W Coordinates: 47°1′55.49″N81°12′38.76″W / 47.0320806°N 81.2107667°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Via Rail | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Shelter | ||||||||||
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| Previous names | Canadian National Railway | ||||||||||
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Laforest railway station is located in the community of Laforest, Ontario, Canada. This station is currently in use by Via Rail. Transcontinental Canadian trains stop here.
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Antoine René Charles Mathurin, comte de Laforêt was a senior French diplomat. He was Consul General of France to the United States before the French Revolution. During the First French Empire he was Ambassador in Madrid. He was briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs during the transitional government after the fall of Napoleon in 1814, and in 1815, after second abdication of Napoleon, a plenipotentiary to the Seventh Coalition powers.
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