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Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve
Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve (French: ''Réserve écologique Irénée-Marie'') is an ecological reserve in the unorganized territory of Rivière-de-la-Savane, in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It was established on October 31, 1985. The Ecological Reserve protects a forest of Eastern white pine, red pine and pine gray. Toponymy The name commemorates Joseph Caron (1889-1960), better known as Brother Irénée-Marie of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, one of the colleagues of brother Marie-Victorin. Geography The reserve is located approximately west of Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, in the Matawin River drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ..., and surrounded by the ZEC Chapeau de Paille. It has an area of ...
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Mékinac Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Mékinac may refer to: * Mékinac Regional County Municipality, Quebec * Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, Quebec, a parish municipality * Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, Quebec, a former municipality in the administrative region of Mauricie, Quebec, whose territory was merged with the municipality of Trois-Rives * Mékinac River, a tributary of the Saint-Maurice River in Quebec * North Mékinac River, a tributary of Rivière des Envies, in Mauricie, Quebec * South Mékinac River, a tributary of North Mékinac River, in Mauricie, Quebec * Mékinac Lake, in the administrative region of Mauricie, Quebec * Mékinac Dam, Québec * Mékinac (township) See also

* Mackinac (other) * Michilimackinac, a historic term for the entire region around the Straits of Mackinac * Fort Michilimackinac, a fort on the south side of the straits {{DEFAULTSORT:Mekinac ...
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