Macamic Lake is a freshwater body of the municipalities of

Macamic Macamic is a ''ville'' in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 202.34 km² and had a population of 2,734 in the Canada 2011 Census. In addition to Macamic itself, the town's territory ...

Authier-Nord Authier-Nord is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers and had a population of 288 as of the 2021 Canadian Census. The municipality was formed on January 1, 1983, when it part ...

and

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in the

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(MRC) of Abitibi-Ouest, in the administrative region of

Abitibi-Témiscamingue Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 146,717 peo ...

, in Quebec, in Canada. Lake Macamic is surrounded by a mainly agricultural area. The surface of this body of water is generally frozen from mid-November to the end of April; however, the period of safe ice traffic is usually from mid-December to the end of March. The arrival of the Transcontinental Railway to

in 1916 (passing south of Macamic Lake) and

La Sarre, Quebec La Sarre is a town in northwestern Quebec, Canada, and is the most populous town and seat of the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It is located at the intersection of Routes 111 and 393, on the La Sarre River, a tributary of Lake A ...

in 1917 contributed greatly to the colonization of this area. Pioneers of lots awarded in the area usually arrived by train from the

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or the Capitale-Nationale region. For example, the pioneers were getting off the train at

, south of Macamic Lake, with their livestock, settlements and provisions. Then, they used boats to cross Macamic Lake and take the

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to their respective lot in the area of

. These pioneers were generally supplied by the train by their extended family who lived in

Geography

Lake Macamic is supplied with water by: *East side (Bellefeuille Bay): Macamic River,

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, Royal-Roussillon Creek; *East side (Perron Bay): a small unnamed river; *South side:

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which flows to the village of

. On the north side of the lake, the lakes "De Courval" and "Piton" are surrounded by marsh areas that drain into the

. The mouth of Lake Macamic is located at the bottom of a bay on the north side. Its outfall is the

which runs 3.3 km to the northwest, to the west, then to the south to flow into the La Sarre Bay, of

Abitibi Lake Lake Abitibi (french: Lac Abitibi, oj, Aabitibiiwi-zaaga’igan) is a shallow lake in northeastern Ontario and western Quebec, Canada. The lake, which lies within the vast Clay Belt, is separated in two distinct portions by a short narrows, ma ...

Toponymy

The geographer

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attests that the name "Macamic" is of Algonquin origin meaning "amazing ". Other historians attribute to it rather the meaning of "lame beaver" to this name; the component "mak" means "disabled" and "amik" is associated with "beaver". The graph "Makamik" has long been in use. The toponym "Macamic Lake" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Bank of Place Names of 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: "Lac Macamic".
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Geography

Toponymy

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