The Mékinac Township is an area located in the municipality of Trois-Rives in the

Mékinac Regional County Municipality Mékinac () is a regional county municipality (MRC) in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Saint-Tite. It is composed of 10 municipalities and 4 unorganized territories. Toponymy According to th ...

(RCM), in the administrative region of

Mauricie Mauricie () is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making it a prime tourist location. The region has a land area of 35,860.05 km² (13,845.64 sq mi) and a popu ...

in the

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, in

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. Mékinac Township is mostly a forest and agricultural land. Forestry has been the engine of the economy of the region. Today, this area is famous for tourist activities, the resort, hunting, fishing, water sports, ATVs, snowmobiles, excursions on foot in the forest and climbing some cliffs.

Geography

Located in the Mid-Mauricie, the Mékinac Towhship includes

Mékinac Lake The Mékinac Lake is a large lake of freshwater of province of Quebec (Canada), located mainly in the municipality Trois-Rives, in Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Ca ...

which discharges into the

Mékinac River The Mékinac river is a located in the RCM Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, the province of Quebec, in Canada. This river of Middle Mauricie has played an important role in the forestry industry at ...

, which empties into the

Saint-Maurice River The Saint-Maurice River (french: Rivière Saint-Maurice; Atikamekw: ''Tapiskwan sipi'') flows north to south in central Quebec from Gouin Reservoir to empty into the Saint Lawrence River at Trois-Rivières, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. F ...

. Mékinac Township is backed at South by the Lejeune Township, located in the northern part of the municipality of Sainte-Thècle. Mékinac Township is drained by several rivers including the Boucher River and streams Michelin, Dumont, Thom and Fou. The hamlet of Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac (formerly a parish municipality) is located in the south of the township, in the municipality of Trois-Rives.

History

Township Mekinac was established by a proclamation of November 7, 1874 of

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Toponymy

The word "Mekinac" has been associated with many homonyms as the river, the lake, the township, the MRC, the Catholic parishes of St. Roch and St. Joseph Mekinac Mékinac ... The name "Mékinac Township" was formalized as of December 5, 1968 in the register of place names in the

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(Geographical Names Board of Québec).Names and places of Quebec, the work of the "Commission de toponymie du Québec", published in 1994 and 1996 as an illustrated and printed dictionary, and in the CD-ROM produced by Micro - Intel in 1997 from the dictionary.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mekinac Township Geography of Mauricie Mékinac Regional County Municipality

Geography

History

Toponymy

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