The Legendre River (''in French: rivière Legendre'') is a tributary of the

Felton River The rivière Felton is a tributary of Grand lac Saint François which constitutes the head lake of the Saint-François River. The course of the "Felton River" crosses the territory of the municipality of Saint-Romain, in the Le Granit Regional ...

which flows into the Baie Sauvage to the south of

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which constitutes the head lake of 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 ...

. The course of the Legendre River crosses the territories of the municipalities of

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and

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, in the

Le Granit Regional County Municipality Le Granit (''Granite'') is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of eastern Quebec, Canada. Located directly south of Quebec City, it borders the region of Chaudière-Appalaches, as well as the US states of New Hampshire and Maine. ...

(MRC), in the administrative region of Estrie, on the South Shore of the

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, in

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, Canada.

Geography

The main neighboring hydrographic slopes of the "Legendre river" are: * north side:

; * east side:

Noire River Noire River or Rivière Noire may refer to: North America * Grande rivière Noire or Big Black River (Saint John River tributary), in Maine, United States, and Quebec, Canada * Noire River (L'Assomption River tributary), Matawinie, Lanaudière, Q ...

; * south side: Blanche River, La Loutre brook, McLeod brook; * west side: Caron stream, Rouge River. The Legendre River has its source on the northern slope of a mountain (summit at ) of

. This source is located in a forest zone north of route 214. From its source, the river flows over: * west; * towards the north, up to the south shore of Petit lac Legendre (length: ; altitude: ) that the current crosses towards the north, along its full length; * north, up to the municipal boundary between

and Saint-Romain; * north, to a stream (coming from the west); * east and north to the road, which it crosses at southwest of the village center of

; * north-east, up to Legendre Flour Mill, where it crosses the road at north-west of the village of

; * towards the northeast, up to the outlet (coming from the west) of Lake Legendre; * north-east, winding through Parc national de Frontenac, to its mouth. The Legendre River empties on the west bank of the

, at upstream of the limit of Parc national de Frontenac and at upstream of the confluence of the Sauvage River.

Toponymy

The toponym "Rivière Legendre" was officially registered 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 - Legendre River

References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

References