The Blanche river (''in French: rivière Blanche'') is a tributary of the

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 ...

, which flows into 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 ...

. The Blanche river flows in the municipality of

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 ...

, 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 ...

(MRC), 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 ...

, in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

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 ...

, in Canada.

Geography

The main neighboring watersheds of the Blanche river are: * to the north: Old Mill Creek,

Osgood River The Osgood River (french: rivière Osgood) is a tributary of the Palmer River, which is a tributary of the Bécancour River, in Quebec, in Canada; the latter being in turn a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Osgood River ...

, Sunday River, Perry River; * to the east:

, rivière de l'Or,

Prévost-Gilbert River The Prévost-Gilbert river (''in French: rivière Prévost-Gilbert'') is a tributary of the west bank of the Bras Saint-Victor which flows into the Chaudière River; the latter flows northward to empty on the south shore of the St. Lawrence Ri ...

; * in the south: Bécancour River,

Coleraine River The Coleraine river (''in French: rivière Coleraine'') is a tributary of lake Noir whose waters flow into lake Aylmer; the latter constitutes an extension of the Saint-François River. The course of the Coleraine river crosses the territory of th ...

; * to the west: Bécancour River,

Bagot River The Bagot River (''in French: rivière Bagot'') is a tributary of the Bécancour River which is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Bagot River flows in the municipalities of Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande and Irlande, in the ...

. The Blanche River draws its source from a mountain stream located on the east side of Mont Saint-Adrien and west of downtown

. The Blanche river flows on towards the south, mainly in forest territory, according to the following segments: * south to the road; * southward, up to route 122 which it cuts to the southwest of the city of Thetford Mines; * towards the south, until its mouth. The Blanche River empties on the north shore of the

, northeast of Black Lake, near an open pit mine.

Toponymy

The toponym Rivière Blanche was formalized on December 5, 1975, 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 - Place name bank - Toponym: rivière Blanche

References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

References