The rivière à la Loutre (''English: Otter River'') is a tributary of the upper part of the

Ottawa River The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...

. Rivière à la Loutre crosses the territory of the municipalities of

Fugèreville Fugèreville is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality Témiscamingue is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of western Quebec, Canada. The county sea ...

and

Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues, often shortened to Guigues, is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality Témiscamingue is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region o ...

, in the

regional county municipality 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 Témiscamingue, in

Abitibi-Témiscamingue Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 146,717 peo ...

, in Quebec, in Canada.

Geography

thumbnail, left, Watershed of the Ottawa River. The neighboring watersheds of the Rivière à la Loutre are: * north side:

Lake Timiskaming Lake Timiskaming or Lake Temiskaming (french: Lac Témiscamingue) is a large freshwater lake on the provincial boundary between Ontario and Quebec, Canada. The lake, which forms part of the Ottawa River, is in length and covers an area of a ...

; * east side: Laverlochère River, Cameron stream; * south side: Lac Témiscamingue, Ottawa River, l'Africain stream; * west side: lac Témiscamingue. The main tributary of the Rivière à la Loutre is the Laverlochère River (coming from the east). Lac d'Argent (formerly Lac d'Argent) (altitude: ) constitutes the head lake of Rivière à la Loutre. ”It is located west of Lac Brisebois and west of the village of Ville-Marie. From Lac d'Argent, the Rivière à la Loutre flows on west, then north, to the south shore of Lac des Douze, which the current crosses on to the north; then north to the mouth of the Laverdochère river (coming from the north); then, (or in a direct line) westward, forming several small coils, until the outlet of a stream coming from the south; then (or in a direct line) northward, forming several coils, to the discharge (coming from the north) of Deep Lake (altitude: ); then west and north, up to its mouth. Along its course, the Rivière à la Loutre collects several agricultural streams and passing just south of the village of

. Its mouth is located at of altitude in the sixth rang of

. The river flows into Paulson Bay, on the east shore of Lake Timiskaming, on the Ottawa River.

Toponymy

The toponym Rivière à la Loutre 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 - Rivière à la Loutre
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References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

References