The Rivière aux Chevreuils (''in English: Deer River'') is a tributary of the south shore of the rivière du Chêne which empties on the south shore of the

St. 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, connecting ...

, 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. The “Rivière aux Chevreuils” flows through the

regional county municipalities The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...

(MRC) of: *

L'Érable Regional County Municipality L'Érable (''Maple'') is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada. Named for its maple trees, the area is rural in nature and is located 50 km southwest of Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: ...

: municipality of Lyster; *

Lotbinière Regional County Municipality Lotbinière is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, the RCM had a population of 31,741. ...

: municipalities of

Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. Part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region, it had a population of 1,049 as of 2021. It is named after Agatha of Sicily, w ...

Saint-Janvier-de-Joly Saint-Janvier-de-Joly is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,079 as of 2021. It is named after reverend Janvier Lachanc ...

and Val-Alain.

Geography

The main neighboring watersheds of the “Rivière aux Chevreuils” are: * north side: rivière du Chêne, Saint-Georges River; * east side:

Armagh River The Armagh River (''in French: rivière Armagh'') is a tributary of the Filkars River which flows on the south bank of the Beaurivage River whose current flows successively on the west bank of the Chaudière River and on the south shore of the ...

Filkars River The Filkars River (''in French: rivière Filkars'') is a tributary of the Beaurivage River which is a tributary of the west bank of the Chaudière River (slope of the south bank of the St. Lawrence River). It flows in the municipalities of Sa ...

; * south side:

Palmer River The Palmer River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area surrounding the river was the site of a gold rush in the late 19th century which started in 1873. Course and features The headwaters of the Palmer River rise in ...

, Perdrix River,

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 ...

; * west side: rivière du Chêne. The Rivière aux Chevreuils has its source south of the village of

, near Chemin Gosford. This head area is located to the north of the

, in the “Chutes de Sainte-Agathe” area. From its source, the “Rivière aux Chevreuils” flows more or less in parallel (south side) with

Rivière du Chêne (Leclercville) The rivière du Chêne (''in English: Oak River'') is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. This river flows in the municipalities of Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Gilles, Dosquet, Lyster (MRC de L'Érable Regional ...

and on the north side of Perdrix River. Its course descends over with a drop of , divided into the following segments: * north, in

, up to Gosford road that it cuts south of the center of the village of

; * north, passing east of the village of

, to a country road; * northwest, to a country road; * west, to the municipal limit of Lyster which constitutes the limit between the MRCs of

and

; * west, to a road in a place called "Le Nordêt"; * northwest, crossing a large area of marshes and collecting water from the Bisson-Laflamme stream (coming from the southwest), to route 116; * west, to a road; * north-west, up to the limit of

; * north-west, to its confluence. The “Rivière aux Chevreuils” flows on the south bank of the rivière du Chêne, (in a direct line) east of the center of the village of Val-Alain.

Toponymy

The toponym "rivière aux Chevreuils" was made official 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 - Place names bank - Toponym: "rivière aux Chevreuils"
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References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

References