The Saint-Cyr River is a tributary of the eastern shore 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 ...
. The Saint-Cyr River flows into the Municipality
Rapides-des-Joachims
Rapides-des-Joachims is a municipality and village in western Quebec, Canada, part of Pontiac County in the Outaouais region. The village is situated on Rapides-des-Joachims Island (''l'île de Rapides-des-Joachims'') on the Ottawa River, about ...
, then from
Sheenboro into 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)
Pontiac Regional County Municipality, in
Outaouais administrative region, in
Quebec, in
Canada.
Geography
Toponymy
The former name of the river was "Boom West Brook", as opposed to the branch being referred to as "Boom Creek" in this hydrographic slope.
The toponym "Saint-Cyr River" 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 Quebec - Bank of Place Names - Toponym: "Saint-Cyr River"
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Sources
External links
Pontiac TourismCLD Pontiac
See also
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Rivers of Outaouais
Pontiac Regional County Municipality