River Canard, Ontario River Canard, Ontario River Canard is a hamlet of roughly 500 people in the northern part of Amherstburg, Ontario and the southern part of Lasalle, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Canard River and is approximately 12 miles south of Windsor, Ontario. It is home to St. Joseph's Church, an attractive French-Canadian church similar to St. Joachim Church in Lakeshore (now closed), and Ste. Anne's Church in Tecumseh. The town has a bowstring arch bridge that carries Essex County Road 8 over the Canard River, a tributary of the Detroit River. Originally named Rivière-aux-Canards ("Duck River") after the river,
French seaplane carrier Foudre the honour of being the first seaplane carrier with which was temporarily converted as an experimental seaplane carrier for two months in April–May 1913, and is more often considered as the first seaplane carrier. French seaplane carrier Foudre The Foudre was a French seaplane carrier, the first in history. Her development followed the invention of the seaplane in 1910 with the French "Le Canard". The "Foudre" was first commissioned in 1896 as a torpedo boat tender ("Croiseur porte-torpilleurs"), with the role of helping bring torpedo boats to the high seas, and launch them for attack. She was then modified as