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Aigle River (Desert River Tributary)
The Aigle River (french: Rivière de l'Aigle, meaning "Eagle River") is a tributary of the Désert River, passing through the municipalities of Cayamant, Quebec, Cayamant and Montcerf-Lytton, in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, in the Outaouais administrative region, Quebec, Canada. The surface of the river is generally frozen from mid-November to mid-April (except in fast-flowing areas). Geography The Mer Bleue Lake (length 5.5 km, altitude: 208 m), located in the municipality of Cayamant, Quebec, is the main body of water of the head of the Aigle River. Lake is located 27 km southwest of downtown Maniwaki, 22 km west of the Gatineau River, 9.0 km north of the hamlet "Lac-Cayamant" and 10.7 km west of "Blue Sea Lake" which is flanked on the east side by the Canadian National Railway section. The Mer Bleue Lake has several bays, spiers / peninsulas advancing into the lake and many islands including "The Grosse Île" and the "Twin Islands". This lake recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outaouais
Outaouais (, ; also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau, the municipality of Val-des-Monts and the Papineau region. Geographically, it is located on the north side of the Ottawa River opposite Canada's capital, Ottawa. It has a land area of and its population was 382,604 inhabitants as of the 2016 Census. History The name of the region comes from the French name for the Ottawa River, which in turn comes from the French name for the Indigenous Odawa that lived near the region. Prior to European arrival in the region, the areas along the Ottawa River were commonly used by various tribes to trade and gather. The oldest European settlement in the region is Hull (now a neighbourhood of Gatineau) which was founded in 1800 by Philemon Wright as Wright's Town. The settlement quickly became involved in the lumber trade, which continued along the Ottawa River until the late 20th century. None of the original town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayamant, Quebec
Cayamant is a municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The village of Lac-Cayamant is located at the north end of Lake Cayamant, west of Gracefield. It was formerly known as the Township Municipality The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Inst ... of Dorion, named after Antoine-Aimé Dorion (1818-1891). It was renamed to the Municipality of Cayamant at the end of 1988, due to many problems created by having the identical name to that of the city of Dorion (which merged with neighbouring Vaudreuil in 1994). The new name refers to the largest lake in its territory, Lake Cayamant. The Algonquin term ''Kakgama, Kandikagamaw'', or ''Kandikagama'' means "porcupine". Alternatively, it may come from ''Kantuagama'', which means lake wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Désert River
The Désert River (french: Rivière Désert) is a river in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The river starts at Lake Désert and flows in a northeasterly direction. It turns south near the northern boundary of the municipality of Montcerf-Lytton, meandering for more than . It then straightens and from the confluence with the Aigle River, the river forms the boundary between Egan-Sud and Kitigan Zibi Reserve. Finally it turns east before draining into the Gatineau River at Maniwaki. It was named "Désert" (French for "desert") due to a natural clearing or man-made vacant land along its banks near its mouth at the Gatineau River. "Desert" in the sense of cleared terrain comes from the dialects of northwestern France. The Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post on this spot in 1838, followed by an Oblate mission in the 1840s, which formed into a settlement called Notre-Dame-du-Désert in 1849 (now known as Maniwaki Maniwaki is a town located north of Gatineau and north- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montcerf-Lytton
Montcerf-Lytton is a municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. Its territory spans both shores of the Désert River, a tributary of the Gatineau River The Gatineau River (french: Rivière Gatineau, ) is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec. The river is long and drains .... Its population centres include: Brodeur, Chute-Rouge, Lytton, and Montcerf. Montcerf has one of the best soil for cultivation across the Gatineau Valley region, supplemented by a network of lakes (most notably Clair, Desrivières, and Lytton Lakes) and forests, which are part of the Zec Bras-Coupé–Désert. Fishing and hunting are popular sport activities in this place. History The Township of Lytton was formed in 1869, named after Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The township municipality was set up in 1909. with M.W.P. O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatineau River
The Gatineau River (french: Rivière Gatineau, ) is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec. The river is long and drains an area of . While it has been said that the river's name comes from Nicolas Gatineau (sometimes spelled Gastineau), a fur trader who is said to have drowned in the river in 1683, the original inhabitants, the Algonquin Anicinabek, assert that the name comes from their language. The name they give the river is "''Te-nagà dino-zìbi''", which means "The River that Stops ne's Journey. Geography The geography of the area was altered with the construction of the Baskatong Reservoir, and it is still possible to travel upstream on the Gatineau and reach a point where a small portage leads to the headwaters of the Ottawa River. The Ottawa River then flows northwest and turns south where it eventually flows more easterly and connects with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa River
The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern Canada at the time. For most of its length, it defines the border between these two provinces. It is a major tributary of the St. Lawrence River and the longest river in Quebec. Geography The river rises at Lac des Outaouais, north of the Laurentian Mountains of central Quebec, and flows west to Lake Timiskaming. From there its route has been used to define the interprovincial border with Ontario. From Lake Timiskaming, the river flows southeast to Ottawa and Gatineau, where it tumbles over Chaudière Falls and further takes in the Rideau and Gatineau rivers. The Ottawa River drains into the Lake of Two Mountains and the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. The river is long; it drains an area of , 65 per cent in Quebec and the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibou River (Aigle River)
The rivière Hibou (''English: Owl River'') is a tributary of the rivière des Hurons, flowing in the heart of the municipality of the townships of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, in the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. Located north of Quebec (city), the Hibou river valley is mainly served by the Grande-Ligne path, the Hibou path and a few urban streets. The surface of the Hibou River (except the rapids areas) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April. Geography The Hibou River rises at the mouth of Lake Drouin which is landlocked between the mountains in the northern part of the municipality of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau ''(The Valley of the Gatineau)'' is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield, Quebec, Gracefield. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983 and was named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low, Quebec, Low. It consists of two cities, fifteen municipalities, and five unorganized territories. The area also has two Algonquin people, Algonquin communities, Rapid Lake, Quebec, Rapid Lake in the heart of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and Kitigan Zibi, Quebec, Kitigan Zibi. The territory of the Gatineau Valley is bordered by other Outaouais RCMs: to the east by the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, to the southeast by Papineau Regional County Municipality, Papineau RCM, to the south by the Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM and to the west by the Pontiac Regional County Municipality. To the north is La Vallà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maniwaki
Maniwaki is a town located north of Gatineau and north-west of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The town is situated on the Gatineau River, at the crossroads of Quebec Route 105, Route 105 and Quebec Route 107, Route 107, not far south of Quebec Route 117, Route 117 (Trans-Canada Highway). It is the administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality. History The history of Maniwaki is closely linked to that of the adjacent Kitigan Zibi, Quebec, Kitigan Zibi Reserve, because the Town of Maniwaki was developed on land that was originally part of this reserve. Its municipal lands were included in historical land claims by Kitigan Zibi; some of which were settled as recently as 2007. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Algonquin people, Algonquins of the mission at Lake of Two Mountains, under the leadership of Chief Pakinawatik, came to the area of the Rivière Désert, Désert River. Shortly after, in 1832, the Hudson's Bay Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across approximately of track. In the late 20th century, CN gained extensive capacity in the United States by taking over such railroads as the Illinois Central. CN is a public company with 22,600 employees, and it has a market cap of approximately CA$90 billion. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding in 1919 until being privatized in 1995. , Bill Gates is the largest single shareholder of CN stock, owning a 14.2% interest through Cascade Investment and his own Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
