The rivière de l'Or (''in English: Gold River'') is a tributary of

Grand lac Saint François The Grand lac Saint-François is a freshwater body covering , in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in southeastern Quebec, in Canada. This water body is located in two regional county municipality: * Le Granit Regional County Mu ...

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 "rivière de l'Or" crosses the territory of the municipalities of

Adstock ''For the municipality in Quebec, see Adstock, Quebec'' Adstock is a village and civil parish about northwest of Winslow and southeast of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. The 2001 Census recorded a parish populati ...

(in particular the sector of the former municipality of Saint-Method-de-Frontenac) and 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

Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality Les Appalaches ( ''Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches'') is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1982 from parts of the historic counties of ...

, 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 ...

, on the South Shore of

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

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, Canada.

Geography

The main neighboring watersheds of the Gold River are: * north side:

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 ...

, Labonté stream; * east side: Couture brook, Muskrat River,

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 ...

Prévost-Gilbert River The Prévost-Gilbert river (''in French: rivière Prévost-Gilbert'') is a tributary of the west bank of the Bras Saint-Victor which flows into the Chaudière River; the latter flows northward to empty on the south shore of the St. Lawrence Riv ...

; * south side:

; * west side:

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 ...

. The rivière de l'Or draws its source from Lac du Huit located in the municipality of

, east of the

Thetford Mines Thetford Mines ( Canada 2021 Census population 26,072) is a city in south-central Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality. The city is located in the Appalachian Mountains, 141 miles northeast of Montreal an ...

mining area, east of

Bécancour Lake The Lake Bécancour is a lake located in the municipality of Thetford Mines in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada. It is the source of the Bécancour River, which flows through the Centre-du-Québec administra ...

, west of route 269. This lake is located north of eighth rang, in the canton of Thetford and it extends to the tenth Rang. Its mouth is located on the south shore of the lake, at the end of the Baie des Bouleaux. The Rivière de l'Or first flows on towards the south to Baie des Fortin from lac à la Truite (length: ; altitude: ) that the current crosses on , bypassing the Pointe du Fer à Cheval, towards the southwest to its mouth located in the extreme west Lake. This lake is a resort paradise. Then the river resumes its course on towards the south-west, passing the east of Thetford Mines airport, passing west of Mont Adstock, then crossing the route 267, up to the Quenneville stream (coming from the west). In its last segment, the Gold River flows on towards the south, passing to the west of the Poudrier Hills, to empty at the bottom of a bay on the north shore of the

. In its lower course, the river constitutes the demarcation between the municipalities of

and

(i.e. the former municipality of Saint-Method-de-Frontenac). The mouth of the Gold River is located on the north shore of

, at (on the water) northeast of the Jules-Allard dam which is erected at the mouth of

, at (on the water) northeast of the mouth of the

and west of the mouth of the Muskrat River.

Toponymy

Formerly, this watercourse was known as the “Goldstream River” in English. The toponym Rivière de l'Or was officially registered on August 4, 1969, 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 - Rivière de l'Or

References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

References