The Coaticook River is a north-flowing river rising in Vermont, United States, and located primarily in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. The mouth of the river is located north of Waterville and south of Lennoxville, near the southern border of the city of Sherbrooke, at the

Massawippi River The Massawippi River is a river flowing in the territory of North Hatley (MRC de Memphrémagog) and the city of Sherbrooke, in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec, Canada. It is a tributary of the Saint-François River which flows nort ...

. Via the Massawippi and 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 ...

, it is part of the St. Lawrence River watershed.

Name

The name for the Coaticook River comes from the Abenaki name ''koatikeku'' which means "River of the land of the white pine".Coaticook River
on website of "Commission de toponymie du Québec" (Geographical Names Board of Quebec). White pines were common in the surrounding region and the nearby upper

Connecticut River The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states. It rises 300 yards (270 m) south of the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges at Long Island ...

valley. Names such as ''Coös'', as in Coös County, New Hampshire, are derivative from this type of tree. The toponym "Coaticook River" was officialized 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 - Toponym: "Coaticook River"
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Geography

The source of the Coaticook River is Norton Pond (length , altitude ), in Essex County, Vermont, south of the Canada–US border. The valley holding this lake continues south across a low height of land, draining via the

Pherrins River The Pherrins River is a tributary of the Clyde River, flowing in Essex County and Orleans County in northern Vermont in United States. The valley of the river Pherrins is a convenient passage for connecting the Island Pond to the Norton Pond ...

into the Clyde River at Island Pond, Vermont. The Coaticook River flows northward on American territory, crossing a forested and agricultural valley. A railway and Vermont Route 114 follow the river on the east side. After crossing the international border, the river enters the municipality of Coaticook and flows generally north through: * the hamlet of Stanhope (part of Coaticook); * the village of Dixville; * the city of Coaticook, where the river has dug a passage through rock formed thousands of years ago; * the west side of the village of

Compton Compton may refer to: Places Canada * Compton (electoral district), a former Quebec federal electoral district * Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton * Compton, Que ...

; * the village of Waterville. North of Waterville the Coaticook joins the

from the south, upstream from the confluence of the Rivière aux Saumons and upstream from the mouth of the Massawippi at the

at Lennoxville, southeast of the center of Sherbrooke. File:Compton pont Drouin.jpg,

Pont Drouin Pont, meaning "bridge" in French, may refer to: Places France * Pont, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or ''département'' * Pont-Bellanger, in the Calvados ''département'' * Pont-d'Ouilly, in the Calvados ''département'' * Pont-Farcy, in the Calva ...

File:Ponts_sur_la_rivière_Coiticook.jpg, Bridges on Coaticook River

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