The Olomane River (french: Rivière Olomane) is a river in the
Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.
Location
The Olomane basin covers .
It lies between the basins of the
Washicoutai River
The Washicoutai River (french: Rivière Washicoutai) is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It flows south and empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Location
The Washicoutai River is long.
The river narrows several tim ...
to the west and the
Coacoachou River
The Coacoachou River (french: Rivière Coacoachou) is a river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.
Location
The river basin covers .
It includes parts of the unorganized territory of Petit-Mécatina and the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-G ...
to the east.
It includes part of the unorganized territory of
Petit-Mécatina, Quebec
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and part of the municipality of
Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent.
The proposed River Natashquan Biodiversity Reserve would be partially within the watershed.
The river is more than long, flowing to the west of the
Étamamiou River.
It rises in a swampy area, first flows northwest, then makes an abrupt turn and flows south to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
The mouth of the Olomane River is in the municipality of
Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality.
The
Innu
The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period ( French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: ), are the Indigenous inhabitants of territory in the ...
settlement of
La Romaine is on the west shore of the bay at the mouth of the river.
Description
According to the ''Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec'' (1914),
Name
Eugène Rouillard (1906) says the
Innu language word ''Olomanoshibo'' means "Paint River" and refers to the reddish color of the water.
Red ocher deposits are found on the banks of the river.
The river is named Ouraman in the 1685 map by
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin.
Variants of the name since the 18th century include Eau ramane (
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin 1744), Oraman, Ouramane, Oraman, Olomanosheebo and Olomanasheebou.
The Olomane form was adopted in 1921.
In the ''Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec'' (1925) the river was named ''Grande Romaine'' to distinguish it from the
Romaine River that enters the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the west at
Havre-Saint-Pierre.
Settlement
The Innu people have traditionally left their winter hunting grounds and lived at the mouth of the river in summer.
A trading post operated at the mouth of the river from 1710 to 1925.
A report dated 11 May 2009 said that the community of La Romaine did not support a project to connect the settlement to the main network from Natashquan, and a partnership for a 6.6 MW hydroelectric plant on the Olomane River, located near the village, was being explored.
The existing 4 MW diesel plant was expected to no longer be sufficient by 2015.
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Rivers of Côte-Nord