Lake Franquelin is a freshwater body of the watershed of

Franquelin River The rivière Franquelin is located in the unorganized territory of Rivière-aux-Outardes and the municipality of Franquelin, in the Manicouagan Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, i ...

, in the unorganized territory of Rivière-aux-Outardes, in the Manicouagan, in the administrative region of

Côte-Nord Côte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadous ...

, in the

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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 thirtee ...

, in Canada. The surroundings of Lac Franquelin are served by a few forest roads which indirectly connect south to the route 138.Open Street Map - Accessed July 11, 2020
/ref> Forestry is the main economic activity around the lake. The surface of Lake Franquelin is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, traffic on the ice is generally safe from mid-December to mid-March.

Geography

Lac Franquelin is located in the unorganized territory of Rivière-aux-Outardes. This complex lake has a hundred islands. The main bays are: Fosse Lachance, Lise, Castor, Philippe, Wood, Guides, Bernard, Jumelles and Saint-Pierre. This lake turns out to be the main body of water at the head of the

side. Lac Franquelin has a length of , a maximum width of and an altitude of . From the mouth of Lake Franquelin, the current descends on generally east, then south-east, following the course of the

, to flow dump on the north shore of the

estuary of Saint Lawrence The estuary of the Saint Lawrence in Quebec, Canada, is one of the largest esturaries in the world. Situation The estuary of the St. Lawrence River is located downstream of the St. Lawrence River and upstream of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It ...

Toponym

The toponym "Lac Franquelin" derives from the name of the river of the same name. The term Franquelin evokes the life work of

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin (1650-c.1712) was a French trader who was appointed in the early 1670s as the first cartographer in '' Nouvelle France'' (Canada) by the colony's governor. He was appointed in 1688 as royal hydrographer by Louis XIV. ...

(1650-1712). Born in 1650 in Villebernin in the

county of Burgundy The Free County of Burgundy or Franche-Comté (french: Franche Comté de Bourgogne; german: Freigrafschaft Burgund) was a medieval county (from 982 to 1678) of the Holy Roman Empire, predecessor to the modern region of Franche-Comté. The name ' ...

in France, Franquelin arrived in 1671 in

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

. When he arrived, he started working in the fur trade. Coming from the same region of Palluau, in France, as he,

Louis de Buade de Frontenac Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (; 22 May 162228 November 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a nu ...

expressly asked him in 1674 to devote himself full time to cartography. Consequently, Franquelin carried out in 1683 the plans of the upper and lower town of Quebec. In 1687, as part of his role as royal hydrographer, Franquelin taught navigation in Quebec. Between 1689 and 1691, Franquelin practiced as an engineer and drew up in particular the plans of the royal battery in

. According to the cartographic archives, Franquelin is considered to have produced around fifty maps. Among the notorious maps of its design, there is in particular the map illustrating the geographical observations of Jolliet during his exploratory expedition of 1673 on the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

as well as that of Louisiana according to the observations of La Salle rider. In 1694, Franquelin returned to France where he continued his career until his death after 1712.Original file, file no 241582, Fédération québécoise des Sociétés de Généalogie et de la Fédération Française de Génealogie. The toponym "Lac Franquelin" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

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Geography

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