The Éternité Lake is a

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tributary of the

Éternité River The Éternité River (french: Rivière Éternité, meaning Eternity River) is a small stream in Quebec, Canada, which flows into Eternity Bay at Rivière-Éternité, in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative ...

and the

Saguenay River __NOTOC__ The Saguenay River () is a major river of Quebec, Canada. It drains Lac Saint-Jean in the Laurentian Highlands, leaving at Alma and running east; the city of Saguenay is located on the river. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River. T ...

. It is located in the

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of Rivière-Éternité, in the

Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality Le Fjord-du-Saguenay (''The Fjord of the Saguenay iver') is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Saint-Honoré, which is also its most populous municipality. It is named for the f ...

of the administrative region of

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of "Saguenay" and th ...

, in the

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, in

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. The Éternité Lake straddles the townships of Brébeuf and Hébert. This lake is integrated into the

zec du Lac-au-Sable Zec du Lac-au-Sable is a "zone d'exploitation contrôlée" (controlled harvesting zone) (zec) located in the unorganized territory of Mont-Élie, in Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, Quebe ...

, a

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. The northern part of Éternité Lake is served by route 170, that is the main street (east–west direction) which runs south of

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going west. Few other secondary forest roads serve the lake sector for forestry and recreational tourism activities.Open Street Map - Accessed January 9, 2019
/ref> Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second. The surface of Lake Eternity is usually frozen from the end of November to the beginning of April, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally from mid-December to the end of March.

Geography

The main watersheds adjacent to Eternity Lake are: * north side: Lac de la Tour,

, Lac à la Croix,

; * east side: Saint-Jean River,

, Périgny Lake, "Lac à la Truite"; * south side: Saint-Jean River,

rivière à la Catin The rivière à la Catin is a tributary of the Cami River, flowing in the municipality of L'Anse-Saint-Jean and Rivière-Éternité, in the Fjord-du-Saguenay, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province from Que ...

, "Lac des Hauteurs",

Malbaie River The Malbaie River in the Charlevoix region empties into the Saint Lawrence River at La Malbaie. Until 1985 the river was used to transport logs downstream. It flows through a steep valley known as Les Hautes Gorges. A sugar maple and American el ...

; * west side: Bailloquet Lake, Brébeuf lake, Pierre River, Bras de Ross, Ha! Ha! River. The Éternité Lake has a length of in the shape of a boat anchor, a maximum width of , an altitude is and an area of . With a length of around , the "Passe du lac Éternité" is located to the southwest of the lake; it links Lake Eternity and Lake Bailloquet (length: ; altitude: ) which follows the shape of a cross. The

has its source at Eternity lake (navigable length: ; altitude: ). The northeast part of the lake has the shape of a giraffe neck and head looking towards the southeast; the South-West part has the shape of a cross whose top is oriented towards the South-East. The two parts of the lake are connected opposite the outlet of Lake Bailloquet. This lake is surrounded by mountains. The mouth of Éternité Lake is located at: * south-west of the village center of Rivière-Éternité; * north-east of Brébeuf Lake; * south-east of a bay on the

; * south-west of the confluence of the

( Baie Éternité) and the

; * north-east of the mouth of

Lake Ha! Ha! Lake Ha! Ha! is a waterbody tributary of the Ha! Ha! River. It is located in the municipality of Ferland-et-Boilleau, Quebec, in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, i ...

; * east of downtown

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; * west of downtown

Tadoussac Tadoussac () is a village in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence rivers. The indigenous Innu call the place ''Totouskak'' (plural for ''totouswk'' or ''totochak'') meaning "bosom", probably in reference to the t ...

. From the mouth of Éternity Lake, the current descends the

on northeast to the Éternity Bay which the current crosses north to the entrance of the bay; then the current descends to the east the

on to

where the latter river flows into the

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Toponymy

The explorer Joseph Bureau, in his 1904 report on the township of Hébert, designated this body of water "le grand lac Éternité".Source: Published in "Régions de Québec, du Lac-Saint-Jean, de Chicoutimi and the north coast of the St. Lawrence, Description of the surveyed cantons, explorations of territories and surveys of rivers and lakes, from 1889 to 1908", published by the Minister of Lands and Forests, Quebec, 1908, page 9. The toponym "Lac Éternité" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by 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 ...

References

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Geography

Toponymy

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