The lac Hocquart is a freshwater body crossed by the

Pika River The Rivière Pika is a freshwater tributary of the Pikauba River, flowing in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This watercourse successively crosses the regional county municipalities ...

on the watershed of the

Pikauba River The Pikauba River is a tributary of Kenogami Lake, flowing in the province of Quebec in Canada, in the administrative regions of: * Capitale-Nationale: in the unorganized territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality; * ...

and the

Saguenay River __NOTOC__ The Saguenay River () is a major river of Quebec, Canada. It drains Lac Saint-Jean in the Laurentian Highlands, leaving at Alma and running east; the city of Saguenay is located on the river. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River. T ...

. Lac Hocquart is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Achouakan, in the

Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality Lac-Saint-Jean-Est is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Alma. In 2016, 99.3% reported that they spoke French most often at home, according to the census. Subdivisions There are 1 ...

, in the administrative region of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in the

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, in

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. This lake is located in the

Laurentides Wildlife Reserve Réserve faunique des Laurentides (), also known by its former name of parc des Laurentides, is a wildlife reserve in Quebec, Canada, located between Quebec City and the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. This reserve is part of the network of ...

. This small valley is served indirectly by the route 169 and a few secondary routes for forestry, recreational tourism activities.Open Street Map - Accessed January 31, 2019
/ref> Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreotourism activities, in second. The surface of Lake Hocquart is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, but safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.

Geography

The main watersheds near Lake Hocquart are: * north side: Pika Lake,

, Custeau Lake, Scott Lake, Clarence-Gagnon Lake,

; * east side: Gobeil stream, Gobeil lake,

rivière aux Canots Est The Rivière aux Canots Est is a tributary of the Rivière aux Canots (rivière aux Écorces), Rivière aux Canots, flowing in the unorganized territories of Lac-Achouakan, Quebec, Lac-Achouakan and Lac-Moncouche, Quebec, Lac-Moncouche, the Lac-Sa ...

; * south side: Lac Larivière, Lac du Panache, rivière aux Canots; * west side: Pika lake, Neptune Lake, Pluto Lake, Cadieux Lake, Audubon Lake, Raquette Creek, Écluse Creek, Sancto Creek, Rivière aux Écorces. Hocquart Lake is in the shape of a pallet hat, a width of and an altitude of . This lake is mainly fed by the

(coming from the west), by the Gobeil stream (coming from the east) and by the outlet (coming from the south) of Lac Larivière. The mouth of this lake is located at: * north-east of Pika Lake; * north of Lac du Panache (slope of the Rivière aux Canots); * southeast of Lac Morin; * north-west of the confluence of the Rivière aux Canots and

Rivière aux Canots Est The Rivière aux Canots Est is a tributary of the Rivière aux Canots (rivière aux Écorces), Rivière aux Canots, flowing in the unorganized territories of Lac-Achouakan, Quebec, Lac-Achouakan and Lac-Moncouche, Quebec, Lac-Moncouche, the Lac-Sa ...

; * southwest of route 169; * south of the confluence of the Hocquart river and the

; * east of the Rivière aux Écorces. From the mouth of Lake Hocquart, the current follows the course of the

consecutively on to the north, the course of the

on north to the confluence with

Kenogami Lake Kenogami lake is a long lake in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of south-central Quebec, Canada. Situated at an altitude of , the lake is long and deep. "Kénogami" means "long lake" in the Montagnais dialect and was originally used to ref ...

; it crosses this lake on north-east to

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; the course of the

Chicoutimi River The Chicoutimi River is a watercourse of eastern Quebec, Canada. A tributary of the Saguenay River, which it meets in the city of Saguenay, it is the main outlet of Kenogami Lake, which rises from a watershed of in the Laurentides Wildlife Reser ...

on to the east, then the northeast and the course of the

on east to

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where it merges with the

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Toponymy

This toponym evokes the life work of

Gilles Hocquart Gilles Hocquart was born in 1694, in Sainte-Croix, Mortagne-au-Perche to Jean-Hyacinthe Hocquart. From September, 1729 to August, 1748, Hocquart served as Intendant of New France, history. Hocquart put his faith in the Canadian bourgeoisie as the ...

(1694-1783), born in

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(France). After having been controller of the port of Rochefort, he came in 1729 to settle in

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, as authorizing commissioner and interim intendant of

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, in order to replace Claude -Thomas Dupuy; he was confirmed in his functions in 1731. In about twenty years,

advanced settlement and agriculture, notably by granting seigneuries in the region of

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and in Nouvelle-Beauce. He ensured the completion of chemin du Roi, on the left bank of

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, in addition to encouraging shipbuilding, export development, industrial production at

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, while maintaining a fairly good balance in public finances. Returning to

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in 1748, he was first, until 1763, steward of the port of

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and, as such, he remained in contact with the colony by helping several Acadians deported to establishing themselves in

and ensuring the fitting out of ships bound for

during the

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was appointed State Councilor in 1764 and, until his death, he was entrusted with the stewardship of the Navy classes. One of his main achievements was the construction of a depot at the Intendant's palace in

, where all of the colony's timed registers and documents are stored. Despite the refusal of the king of

arranged for this place to keep the official documents of the colony in a safe place. Several historians of French Canada emphasize that his stubbornness in front of the king would have made it possible to preserve a substantial part of the archives written in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. The toponym "Lac Hocquart" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the

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Notes and references

Appendices

* Lac-Achouakan, a TNO *

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