The Petit lac Saint-François (''in English: Little Lake Saint François'') is a lake located near the municipality of

Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,018 as of 2009. It is named after Saint Joseph, fath ...

in the administrative region of

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

, in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, in Canada. It receives the waters of the

Ashberham River The Ashberham river (''in French: rivière Ashberham'') is a tributary of Grand lac Saint François which constitutes the head lake of the Saint-François River. The course of the Ashberham River crosses the territory of the municipality of Sai ...

which has its source in Caribou Lake. The discharge of the lake joins the Grand lac Saint François, source 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 ...

which joins the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...

Geography

Its area is approximately , its elevation is , and its maximum depth is . The route 112 gives access to the lake. An Abenaki reserve of which was named ''Colraine Reserve'' was granted in 1853 in range #10 and range #11 west of the lake shore.;Recherches Amérindiennes Au Québec, Volume 33 . it was abandoned in 1882. The Bécancour Trail (Abenaki Becancour Trail), passed by there, linked the

Bécancour River The Bécancour River is a river flowing in the administrative region of Centre-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada. Geography The Bécancour takes its source from the lake of the same name in the town of Thetford Mines, in the Chaudière-Appalach ...

and the basin of the Saint-François river.

References

{{Reflist Lakes of Chaudière-Appalaches Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality