The Ashberham river (''in French: rivière Ashberham'') is a tributary of Grand lac Saint François which constitutes the head lake of the

Saint-François River The Saint-François River is a right tributary of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its source is Lake Saint-François in Chaudière-Appalaches, southeast of Thetford Mines. It flows southwest towards Sherbrooke, where it changes course ...

. The course of the Ashberham River crosses the territory of the municipality of

Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,018 as of 2009. It is named after Saint Joseph, fath ...

, in the

Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality Les Appalaches ( ''Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches'') is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1982 from parts of the historic counties of ...

, in the administrative region of

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

, on the South Shore of the

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

, 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.

Geography

The main neighboring watersheds of the Ashberham River are: * north side:

Bécancour River The Bécancour River is a river flowing in the administrative region of Centre-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada. Geography The Bécancour takes its source from the lake of the same name in the town of Thetford Mines, in the Chaudière-Appalach ...

, Bécancour Lake; * east side: rivière de l'Or; * south side: Grand lac Saint François; * west side: Lake Noir,

Bisby River The Bisby River is a tributary of Lac Noir whose waters flow into lake Aylmer; the latter constitutes an extension of the Saint-François River. The course of the Bisby river crosses the territory of the municipalities of Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine ...

. The Ashberham River has its source on the southern flank of the Collines de Bécancour, that is to say to the southwest of the

Thetford Mines Thetford Mines ( Canada 2021 Census population 26,072) is a city in south-central Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality. The city is located in the Appalachian Mountains, 141 miles northeast of Montreal an ...

airport. From there, the river descends on first towards the southeast, then the south and the southwest, until it empties on the north shore of Caribou Lake (length: ; altitude: 331) that the current crosses over towards the southwest. This lake is located to the south of Collines Rééd and Colline Crabtree, to the south-east of Mont Quarry and to the east of Colline Provençal. The

mining sites are located on the northwest side of these mountains. The northern slope of the lake is mountainous. Its mouth flows to the southwest of the lake. From Caribou Lake, the Ashberham River flows first south, then southeast, to the mouth of Beebe Creek (from the north); and east, crossing the road bridge, to the west shore of Petit lac Saint-François (Ashberham). This lake is completely surrounded by chalet. The current crosses the "Petit lac Saint-François" on towards the southwest to the mouth of the lake located to the south. Then, the river flows on south to its mouth. The mouth of the Ashberham river is located on the north shore of Grand lac Saint François, at (on the water) northeast of the Jules-Allard dam which is erected at the mouth of Grand lac Saint François and (on the water) southwest of the mouth of the rivière de l'Or.

Toponymy

The toponym Rivière Ashberham was officially registered on December 5, 1968, at the

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 ...

.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Ashberham River

Geography

Toponymy

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