The Dufay River is a tributary of Lake Buies, flowing in the Northwestern part of the territory of the city of

Rouyn-Noranda Rouyn-Noranda ( 2021 population 42,313) is a city on Osisko Lake in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The city of Rouyn-Noranda is a coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census ...

, in administrative region of Abitibi-Temiscamingue, in

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, in

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. Forestry is the main economic activity of this hydrographic slope; recreational tourism activities, second. Annually, the surface of the river is generally frozen from mid-November to late April, however, the period of safe ice circulation is usually from mid-December to early April.

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The river begins at the mouth of the Dufay Lake (length: ; width: ; altitude: ) in the area of Montbeillard. Lake Dufay has an island of in length in the middle. It is fed on the East side by the outlet of Lake Abenakis and Lake Senaka. From the dam at the mouth of Dufay Lake (located to the South of the lake), the river flows on towards the northwest, to its mouth The mouth of the Dufay River empties onto the south shore of Buies Lake. This confluence is located at: * South-west of the

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

border; * Northeast of the mouth of

Raven Lake Raven Lake is a freshwater body of Canada that straddles the boundary between: * Northwest in the province of Quebec, in Rouyn-Noranda (sector of Montbeillard), in administrative region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue; Northeastern Ontario, in the Di ...

(

); * Northwest of the mouth of the Larder River (Ontario) (confluence with the

Blanche River (Lake Timiskaming) The Blanche River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in Timiskaming District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The river is a tributary of Lake Timiskaming and its name is from the French for the colour "white". Course The rive ...

; * north of the mouth of the

(confluence with

Lake Timiskaming Lake Timiskaming or Lake Temiskaming (french: Lac Témiscamingue) is a large freshwater lake on the provincial boundary between Ontario and Quebec, Canada. The lake, which forms part of the Ottawa River, is in length and covers an area of a ...

). From the confluence of the Dufay River with Lake Buies, the current flows through

, then descends successively to the Larder River (Ontario),

, the

which is crossed by the

Ottawa River The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...

which is the largest tributary of the North 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 ...

Toponymy

The term "Dufay" is a family name of French origin. The toponym "Dufay River" has been 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 ...

, i.e. at the creation of this commission.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Place name bank - Place name: "Dufay river"
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