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Les Trois-Lacs (Les Sources)
Les Trois Lacs (''in English: The Three Lakes'') is a body of water shared between Les Sources Regional County Municipality, in Estrie, and Arthabaska Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Centre-du-Québec. The body of water, divided into three units by points and bays, is located on the course of the Nicolet Southwest River. Geography Features The Three Lakes have an area , long and , bordered by of rives. Acting as a sedimentation basin for the Nicolet Southwest River, they have experienced a decrease in their volume since 1949. In 2004, the average depth was . From 1975 to 2004, the estimated average depth loss was 20%.. Hydrography The Trois Lacs are 88% fed by the Nicolet Sud-Ouest river, while other small rivers and streams flow into it around its shores: the Second Ruisseau, the Monfette stream, the Trout stream and the Boutin watercourse. The median flow at the outlet varies between depending on the period of the year. The Three Lakes drai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolet Southwest River
The Nicolet Southwest River (''in French: rivière Nicolet Sud-Ouest'') is a tributary on the west bank of the Nicolet River. It empties into the municipality of Nicolet, Quebec, Nicolet, in the Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Centre-du-Québec, in Quebec, in Canada. This river flows through the regional county municipality, regional county municipalities (MRC): Administrative region of Estrie: * MRC of Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality: Dudswell, Quebec, Dudswell; * MRC des Les Sources Regional County Municipality: Danville, Quebec, Danville; Administrative region of Centre-du-Québec: * MRC of Arthabaska Regional County Municipality: Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Quebec, Saint-Samuel, Quebec, Saint-Samuel; * MRC of Drummond Regional County Municipality: Saint-Lucien, Quebec, Saint-Lucien, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil, Quebec (parish), Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil (parish), Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weedon, Quebec
Weedon is a municipality of 2,683 people in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. On February 9, 2000, the village municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ... of Saint-Gérard merged into Weedon.http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/pdf/mod2000.pdf References External links * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality {{Estrie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Of Estrie
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger oceans, they do form part of the Earth's water cycle. Lakes are distinct from lagoons, which are generally coastal parts of the ocean. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which also lie on land, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which usually flow in a channel on land. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams. Natural lakes are generally found in mountainous areas, rift zones, and areas with ongoing glaciation. Other lakes are found in endorheic basins or along the courses of mature rivers, where a river channel has widened into a basin. Some parts of the world have many lakes formed by the chaotic drainage patterns left over from the last ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bouchette
Lt.-Colonel Joseph Bouchette (May 14, 1774 – April 8, 1841) was the Canadian Surveyor-General of British North America. His book, ''Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada'' was published at London in 1815 and also translated into French. It contained the sum knowledge of the territory at that time. The township of Bouchette, Quebec, was named for him. During the War of 1812 he raised and commanded the ''Quebec Volunteers''. In 1813, he was gazetted Lt. Colonel on the Staff of Governor-General Sir George Prévost. Background Born at Quebec City in 1774, he was the son of Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bouchette, a topographer, and Marie Angelique Duhamel, daughter of Captain Julien Duhamel (1723-1778), of Quebec City. In 1775, his father rescued General Guy Carleton, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in North America, by navigating him and his family along the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal, through the American lines, and up to Quebec. This bold move rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eutrophication
Eutrophication is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. It has also been defined as "nutrient-induced increase in phytoplankton productivity". Water bodies with very low nutrient levels are termed oligotrophic and those with moderate nutrient levels are termed mesotrophic. Advanced eutrophication may also be referred to as dystrophic and hypertrophic conditions. Eutrophication can affect freshwater or salt water systems. In freshwater ecosystems it is almost always caused by excess phosphorus. In coastal waters on the other hand, the main contributing nutrient is more likely to be nitrogen, or nitrogen and phosphorus together. This depends on the location and other factors. When occurring naturally, eutrophication is a very slow process in which nutrients, especially phosphorus compounds and organic matter, accumulate in water bodies. These nutrients deriv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element with the symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus, but because it is highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth. It has a concentration in the Earth's crust of about one gram per kilogram (compare copper at about 0.06 grams). In minerals, phosphorus generally occurs as phosphate. Elemental phosphorus was first isolated as white phosphorus in 1669. White phosphorus emits a faint glow when exposed to oxygen – hence the name, taken from Greek mythology, meaning 'light-bearer' (Latin ), referring to the " Morning Star", the planet Venus. The term '' phosphorescence'', meaning glow after illumination, derives from this property of phosphorus, although the word has since been used for a different physical process that produces a glow. The glow of phosphorus is caused by oxidation of the white (but not red) phosphorus — a process now called chem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danville, Quebec
Danville is a city in the administrative region of Estrie, in the Canadian province of Quebec. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, the population was 3,836. History Danville is on a stretch of the Chemin Craig, a road built in the 19th century connecting Quebec to New England. The town is about north of the Vermont border. American loyalists from New England began arriving in 1783 and gave the town its name in memory of their hometown in Vermont of the same name: Danville, Vermont. The founder of Danville was Simeon Flint, who was a resident from Danville, Vermont. Until about 1971, the population of Danville was majority Anglophone. However, in the mid-1970s, many of the younger generation migrated to English Canada, Greater Montreal, or New England. There are many heritage buildings, including three Protestant churches (Christian Adventist, Presbyterian, and United Church of Canada), two Anglican churches, an Evangelical Baptist church and a Roman Catholic church. The Presbyterian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wotton, Quebec
Wotton is a municipality in 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 thirtee ..., Canada. References External links * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Quebec
Saint-Georges-de-Windsor is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. References External links * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Estrie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Camille, Quebec
Saint-Camille is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Les Sources Regional County Municipality. The township had a population of 529 in the Canada 2016 Census. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ..., Saint-Camille had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. References External links * Township municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie {{Estrie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudswell, Quebec
Dudswell is a municipality of 1,600 people in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. References Notable residents * Ralph Gustafson (1909-1995), poet and professor of literature at Bishop's University * Eva Tanguay (1878-1947), singer, comedienne, vaudevillian and early example of 20th century celebrity culture * Robert Atkinson Davis 4th premier of Manitoba. External links * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality {{Estrie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ham-Sud
Ham-Sud is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. Prior to October 22, 2011 it was a parish municipality and its name was Saint-Joseph-de-Ham-Sud. It lies to the east of Wotton and about to the southwest of Thetford Mines. Quebec Route 257 Route 257 is a north–south highway on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Saint-Adrien at a junction with Route 216, and its southern terminus is at the Pit ... passes through the region. Toponymy Colonized in the middle of the 19th century, the township of Ham-Sud, established in 1851, takes its name from a village in the county of Essex in England. One of its first inhabitants, Joseph Dion, would eventually see his first name honoured through attribution to the mission in 1869. The parish was established both canonically and civilly in 1877. The parish municipality, installed two years later, would also take this denomination, Saint-Joseph-de-Ham-Sud. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
