Noire River (Huron River Tributary)
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Noire River (Huron River Tributary)
The Noire River (''in French: rivière Noire'') is a tributary of the north shore of the Huron River. The latter's current flows into the rivière du Chêne which flows onto the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Rivière Noire flows through the municipalities of Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun and Sainte-Croix-de-Lotbinière, in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Québec, in Canada. Geography The main neighboring watersheds of the Black River are: * north side: Petit Saut River, St. Lawrence River; * east side: Bois Franc stream, Bourret stream, Noire River, Rouge River (Beaurivage River tributary), rivière aux Pins, Beaurivage River; * south side: Bois Franc-Pierreriche stream, Tête de la Rivière Huron, rivière aux Cèdres, Henri River, rivière du Chêne; * west side: Huron River, rivière du Chêne. The Black River has its source in Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun. ...
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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 ...
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Rivière Aux Pins (Beaurivage River Tributary)
The Rivière aux Pins is a tributary of the Beaurivage River which is a tributary of the west bank of the Chaudière River (slope of the south bank of the Saint Lawrence river). It flows in the municipalities of Saint-Agapit and Saint-Gilles in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada. Geography The main watersheds neighbors of the Rivière aux Pins are: * north side: Rouge river, Noire River, Aulneuse River, Beaurivage River; * east side: Beaurivage River, Chaudière River; * south side: Henri RIver, Beaurivage River; * west side: rivière du Loup (Chaudière), Henri River, Rivière aux Cèdres. The Rivière aux Pins rises in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, on the boundary with the municipality of Dosquet. This head area is located west of route 116, northeast of the center of the village of Dosquet and southwest of village of Saint-Agapit. From its source, the Rivière aux Pins flows ...
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List Of Rivers Of Quebec
This is a list of rivers of Quebec. Quebec has about: *one million lakes of which 62279 have a toponymic designation (a name), plus 218 artificial lakes; *15228 watercourses with an official toponymic designation, including 12094 streams and 3134 rivers. Quebec has 2% of all fresh water on the planet."''Du Québec à la Louisiane, sur les traces des Français d'Amérique'', Géo Histoire, Hors-série, Éditions Prisma, Paris, October 2006 James Bay watershed James Bay Rivers flowing into James Bay, listed from south to north * Rivière au Saumon (Baie James) * Rivière au Phoque (Baie James) * Désenclaves River * Roggan River **Corbin River ** Anistuwach River * Kapsaouis River * Piagochioui River =Tributaries of La Grande River= =Tributaries of Rupert River= =Tributaries of Broadback River= =Tributaries of Nottaway River= Tributaries of Waswanipi River (which empties in Nottaway River via Matagami Lake) Tributaries of Bell River Quebec rivers flowing in Ontario (o ...
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Commission De Toponymie Du Québec
The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules. It also provides recommendations to the government with regard to toponymic changes. Its mandate covers the namings of: * natural geographical features (lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.) * constructed features (dams, embankments, bridges, etc.) * administrative units (wildlife sanctuaries, administrative regions, parks, etc.) * inhabited areas (villages, towns, Indian reserves, etc.) * roadways (streets, roads, boulevards, etc.) A child agency of the Office québécois de la langue française, it was created in 1977 through jurisdiction defined in the Charter of the French Language to replace the Commission of Geography, created in 1912. See also * Toponymy * Toponym'elles * Office québécois de la lang ...
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Saint-Janvier-de-Joly
Saint-Janvier-de-Joly is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,079 as of 2021. It is named after reverend Janvier Lachance, missionary who will serve the parish from 1914 to 1926. "Joly" honours Quebec premier Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière and owner of the ''seigneurie In English law, seignory or seigniory, spelled ''signiory'' in Early Modern English (; french: seigneur, lit=lord; la, senior, lit=elder), is the lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple. ''Nulle terre ...'' of Lotbinière, in which part of Saint-Janvier-de-Joly's territory lay. The post office, opened in 1924, is called Joly, name under which the municipality is most commonly known. References Commission de toponymie du Québec
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Quebec Route 271
Route 271 is a two-lane north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Sainte-Croix at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is at the junction of Route 173 in Saint-Georges. Towns along Route 271 * Sainte-Croix * Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur-d'Issoudun * Laurier-Station * Saint-Flavien * Dosquet * Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière * Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds * Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton * Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus * Sainte-Clotide-de-Beauce * Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce * Saint-Benoît-Labre * Saint-Georges File:Debacle St-georgesBeauce.jpg, David-Roy bridge in Saint-Georges. File:Chemin vers Saint Georges de Beauce - panoramio.jpg, Route 271 in Saint-Benoît-Labre. File:Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière.jpg, Intersection with Routes 218 in Sainte-Agathe. File:Dosquet (2).jpg, Intersection with Route 116 in Dosquet. File:Saint-Flavien, Québec.jpg, Principale street in Saint-Flavien. File:Boulevard Saint-Joseph, L ...
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Laurier-Station
Laurier-Station is a village municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 2,634 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after its train station, Laurier, itself named in honour of prime minister Wilfrid Laurier. It is also the town where the professional hockey player David Desharnais was born. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Laurier-Station 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. Notable people * Laurent Beaudoin – businessman * David Desharnais David Kevin Denis Desharnais (born September 14, 1986) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the National League (NL). Undrafted, he originally signed as a free agent with the Montreal Canadie ... - ice hockey pla ...
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Saint-Apollinaire, Quebec
Saint-Apollinaire is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 7,968 as of 2021. It is named after Saint Apollinaris (french: Saint Apollinaire). History In 1738, Angélique le Gardeur, daughter of the seigneur of Tilly, became a widow and was granted a seigneury which she named the seigneury of Gaspé, after her late husband. This seigniory is located to the south of the seigniory of Tilly. the current municipality of St-Apollinaire is within the limits of that seigneury of Gaspé. In 1806, a road crossing the territory of the seigneury of Gaspé was opened between Saint-Nicolas (today Lévis) and Saint-Gilles, which allowed the developpement of the county of Lotbinière. The municipality is canonically imposed on November 23, 1853, and on July 1, 1855, the parish municipality of Saint-Apollinaire is officially founded. The territory then grows rapidly. Ther ...
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Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,462 as of 2009. Member of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly has been colonized since the early beginnings of New France. The ''seigneurie'' of Villieu was sold in 1700 to Pierre-Noël Le Gardeur de Tilly, and because the ''seigneurie'' of Tilly, which is still part of the municipality's name today. Saint-Antoine is named in honour to Catholic saint Anthony of Padua Anthony of Padua ( it, Antonio di Padova) or Anthony of Lisbon ( pt, António/Antônio de Lisboa; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese Catholic Church, Catholic priesthood (Cath .... References Commission de toponymie du Québec
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Henri River (Leclercville)
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este * Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours * Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601–1666), French nobleman * Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), bishop of Metz * Henri de Gondi (other) * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne * Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857–1923), French mountain climber * Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg * Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders o ...
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Rivière Aux Cèdres
The rivière aux Cèdres (''in English: Cedar River'') is a tributary of the east bank of the Henri River whose current flows successively into the rivière du Chêne and on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Cedars River flows through the municipalities of Saint-Agapit, Saint-Flavien, Dosquet, Saint-Janvier-de-Joly and Val-Alain, in the MRC of Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada. Geography The main neighboring watersheds of the Cèdres river are: * North side: Huron River, rivière aux Ormes, St. Lawrence River; * east side: Noire River, Beaurivage River, rivière aux Pins; * south side: rivière aux Frênes, Henri River, rivière du Chêne; * west side: Henri River, rivière du Chêne. The Rivière aux Cèdres has its source in a marsh area straddling the intermunicipal boundaries of Saint-Agapit, Dosquet and Saint-Flavien. This head area is located southwest of t ...
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Beaurivage River
The Beaurivage River is a tributary of the Chaudière River which in turn flows into the St. Lawrence River. The Beaurivage river crosses the Quebec municipalities (in Canada) of: * MRC Robert-Cliche Regional County Municipality: municipality of Saint-Séverin; * MRC La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality: municipality of Saint-Elzéar; * MRC of Lotbinière Regional County Municipality: municipalities of Saint-Sylvestre, Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage and Saint-Gilles; * Lévis, a city. The Beaurivage River is a river in Quebec that flows from Thetford Mines and empties in the Chaudière River, near Saint-Romuald, Quebec. It is a body of water mostly known for its annual canoe race beginning at Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage, Quebec and finishing at Saint-Gilles, Quebec. Geography The main neighboring watersheds of the Beaurivage river are: * north side: Chaudière River, St. Lawrence River; * east side: Chaudière River, Cugnet River, Bras d'Henri; * south si ...
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