The rivière aux Chiens is a tributary of

rivière des Mille Îles The Rivière des Mille Îles (, "Thousand Islands River") is a channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec, Canada and runs into the Rivière des Prairies. It is long. It divides Île Jésus (the city of Laval) from the North Shore, th ...

, flowing on the north 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

Laurentides The Laurentides () is a region of Quebec. While it is often called the Laurentians in English, the region includes only part of the Laurentian mountains. It has a total land area of and its population was 589,400 inhabitants as of the 2016 Cens ...

, in the southwest of the

province of 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 thirteen p ...

, in Canada. This river crosses 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 ...

(RCM) of: * Mirabel; *

Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality Thérèse-De Blainville is a regional county municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. It is located immediately north of Laval on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles. The population according to the 2016 Canadian Ce ...

: cities of Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville,

Rosemère Rosemère is an affluent suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality. The town is noted for its green look, due to the high de ...

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Geography

The upper part of this river crosses eastwards an agricultural plain between the village of "Saint-Augustin" ( Mirabel) and the urban center of Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville. The rest of its course runs through Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville and

. The "Rivière aux Chiens" has its source near the "Blainville Street East" in Mirabel. This source is located at: * southwest of Highway 15; * southeast of the terminal of the Mirabel Airport; * north-west of

; * west of the confluence of the "rivière aux Chiens". Course of the river From its source, the "rivière aux Chiens" flows over , according to the following segments: * to the southeast in Mirabel up to the limit of the city Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville; * eastward up to the bridge of the Highway 15; * eastward, crossing the urban center of Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, up to the boundary of the city of

; * to the northeast, up to the bridge of the Highway 640; * to the east, up to the limit of

; * to the southeast, up to the confluence of the river The confluence of the "rivière aux Chiens" flows on the north bank of the

or up to limit

and

; and upstream of Garth island.

Toponymy

The place name "Rivière aux Chiens" reflects the importance that rural families agreed to dogs as pets. On dairy farms, the dog had great help especially for security, movement of herds, hunting and hitch for pulling sleds. The place name "rivière aux Chiens" was formalized 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 (Geographical Names Board of Quebec) - Banque de noms de lieux (Bank of place names) - Toponym: "Rivière aux Chiens"
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References

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Geography

Toponymy

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