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Nétagamiou River
The Nétagamiou River (, ) is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location The Nétagamiou River flows through the unorganized territory of Petit-Mécatina. It flows south to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence along the line that separates the cantons of Bellecourt and Saint-Vincent. The mouth is in the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. The mouth is about east of the Innu reserve of La Romaine. It is east of the village of Chevery, which is built on a point of sand and is accessible by boat from Harrington Harbour. The watershed covers . The river forms north, where it branches out from the Petit Mécatina River. The mouth is blocked by a sandbar, through which it cuts a narrow channel deep. Within the sandbar there is a natural harbor. Boats can travel upstream as far as the first falls, which are high. The falls can be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Côte-Nord
Côte-Nord (Region 09) (, ; ) is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region of Quebec, on the Quebec-Labrador peninsula, Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, Canada. The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Tadoussac to the limits of Labrador, leaning against the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean to the west, the Côte-Nord penetrates deep into Nord-du-Québec, Northern Quebec. With the motto: ''Between nature and grandeur'', the Côte-Nord is made up of 99% public land, it is the second largest region after Nord-du-Québec, which occupies 51% of Quebec's territory. History The origins of the settlement of the Côte-Nord precede by a few millennia the population movements that began in the middle of the 19th century. Archaeology, Archaeologists tell us that the main prehistoric cultures, called "Archaic humans, archaic", were based on three sets of groups coming from the southwest, from as far away as the Great Lakes by the St. Lawrence Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De La Boische, Marquis De Beauharnois
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois (; 12 October 1671 Р12 July 1749) was a French Naval officer who served as Governor of New France from 1726 to 1746. Biography Son of Fran̤ois IV de Beauharnais, Charles had two brothers who also impacted the history of New France. Claude de Beauharnois was a French Naval officer who spent time commanding ships that maintained supply lines to the colony and Fran̤ois de Beauharnois was intendant of New France for a time. The governor worked well with frontier traders, explorers, and missionaries. His term saw a great expansion in the number of western forts with the leadership of people like La V̩rendrye, and the linkage of Canadian and Louisiana colonies. Exploration was pushed west to the Rocky Mountains by La V̩rendrye and his sons. Despite a generally peaceful and prosperous administration, he was blamed for the fall of Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, and was recalled in 1746, returning to France to following ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Véco River
The Véco River (, ) is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, that empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It has been dammed to supply a hydroelectric power plant. The shoreline around the mouth of the river is protected as part of a federal bird sanctuary. Location The Véco River is long and its watershed covers . The river drains Lake Robertson Lake, Lake Charles and Lake Blais. It empties into Ha! Ha! Bay. The river flows through the unorganized territory of Petit-Mécatina. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Gros-Mécatina in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. Name The river is named after Jean-Baptiste Véco, a notary-royal, who exercised his profession in Acadia in the 17th century. Dam A Hydro-Québec dam on the river created the Robertson Reservoir for the Lac-Robertson Generating Station, which includes the former Lake Robertson and Lake Plamondon. It contains rainbow smelt, arctic char, brook trout and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coacoachou River
The Coacoachou River () is a river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. Location The river basin covers . It includes parts of the unorganized territory of Petit-Mécatina and the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. The river flows from the long Lake Coacoachou via Lake Tshipitnauman into Salé Lake. Salé Lake is a widening of the Coacoachou River, which flows from north to south for about and empties into Coacoachou bay, an indentation in the Saint Lawrence coast about east of Natashquan The bay is the only harbor on this part of the coast for mid-sized ships, but the many shoals and rocks make the entrance difficult. However, according to the ''Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec'' (1914), Name The Innu of the region used the river to access their hunting grounds, and called it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magpie River (Quebec)
The Magpie River, Moteskikan Hipu, Mutehekau Hipu, Pmotewsekaw Sipo (Traditional indigenous variants), Rivière Magpie (French), it flows from north to south, emptying into Magpie Bay, Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Rivière-Saint-Jean municipality, Minganie RCM, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada. Geography The Magpie River covers a distance of from north to south with a height difference of 610 m, its watershed covers an area of 7,650 km2. The river is not wide, but fast and turbulent. It rises near the border between Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ... and Labrador, flows south, and enters Magpie Bay west of Havre-Saint-Pierre. Two of its tributaries are named Magpie West and Magpie East. The central section contains the long Lake Magpie. Its estuary is wide and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouleau River
The Bouleau River () flows north/south on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Sept-Rivières and Minganie RCM, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada. The Birch River is recognized as a salmon river along almost its entire length. Location The Bouleau River has its source in the Canadian Shield also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, and runs through the boreal forest to its mouth in the Gulf of St. Lawrence about east of Sept-Îles. Its source is to the north of Lake Bigot, west of Lake Nipisso. It rises at an elevation of , flows south for about , and has two major tributaries. The watershed covers . The bedrock is Precambrian, covered in typical boreal vegetation. The mouth of the Bouleau River is in the municipality of Rivière-au-Tonnerre in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. The drainage basin covers parts of two regional county municipalities, within which it covers parts of four smaller administrative units: * Sept-Rivière ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigou River
The Pigou River () is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location The Pigou rises on the Laurentian Plateau and empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence about east of Sept-Îles. The river rises in Petit lac Travers at an elevation of . It is about long. The river flows south through the unorganized territory of Rivière-Nipissis. The East Pigou River, a small tributary, enters about from its mouth. The mouth of the Pigou River is in the municipality of Sept-Îles, Sept-Rivières. Name The name "Pigou" may come from the Algonquin language ''pikiou'' meaning "gum", referring to a place where resin is extracted from fir or pine, or from the Innu language ''pikiou'' meaning "fish". The name is also used for nearby islands and a fishing bank. Another theory, less likely, is that "pigou" is an old navy term for a hanging candle holder. The Pigou River is first mentioned by name in 1892 by the surveyor C. C. Dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 elm forest grows in the gorge and has remained largely undisturbed for hundreds of years. Its course successively crosses Grands-Jardins National Park, Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, Zec des Martres, Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park and Zec du Lac-au-Sable. It winds first towards the north-east, towards the east, then towards the south-east, in a narrow and deep glacial valley, for 161 kilometers and a drop of 820 meters. Its course forms a semicircle stretching towards the north and completely encircling in its center the hydrographic slope of the Rivière du Gouffre. For example, there is a distance of between the mouth of the rivières des Martres and the mouth of a stream flowing on the east bank of the upper part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Salmon
The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Hucho taimen, Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and in rivers that flow into it. Most populations are anadromous, hatching in streams and rivers but moving out to sea as they grow where they mature, after which the adults seasonally move upstream again to spawn. When the mature fish re-enter rivers to spawn, they change in colour and appearance. Some populations of this fish only migrate to large lakes, and are "landlocked", spending their entire lives in freshwater. Such populations are found throughout the range of the species. Unlike Pacific species of salmon, ''S. salar'' is iteroparous, which means it can survive spawning and return to sea to repeat the process again in another year with 5–10% returning to the sea to spawn again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brook Trout
The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. Two ecological forms of brook trout have been recognized by the US Forest Service. One ecological form is long-lived potamodromous populations in Lake Superior known as coaster trout or coasters. The second ecological form is the short-living predaceous anadromous populations which are found in northern lakes and coastal rivers from Long Island to Hudson Bay, which are referred to as salters. In parts of its range, it is also known as the eastern brook trout, speckled trout, brook char (or charr), squaretail, brookie, or mud trout, among others. Adult coaster brook trout are capable of reaching sizes over 2'' ''feet in length and weigh up to 6.8'' ''kg (15'' ''lb), whereas adult salters average between 6 and 15'' ''inches in length and weigh between 0. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étamamiou River
The Étamamiou River (, ) is a river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. Location The river runs through the Basse-Côte-Nord between the Olomane River, Olomane and Little Mecatina River, Little Mecatina rivers. It has a very irregular course of . Upstream from Lake Manet, about from its mouth, the river divides into two sections which meet again at Foucher Lake, further down. The river again divides into two channels before reaching the gulf, which one arm enters downstream from the hamlet of Étamamiou and the other arm enters in Bussière Bay. There is an impressive rapids near the mouth, but above this the river is calm. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. The river mouth is about west of La Tabatière, Quebec, La Tabatière and east of Natashquan (township), Natashquan. The Ouapitagone Archipelago is just south of the river mouth. Name In the Innu langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Hocquart
Gilles Hocquart was born in 1694, in Sainte-Croix, Mortagne-au-Perche to Jean-Hyacinthe Hocquart. From September, 1729 to August, 1748, Hocquart served as Intendant of New France. Hocquart put his faith in the Canadian bourgeoisie as the main player in the development of a profitable economy for the colony. Although his ideas were grand, he did not recognize the flaws that were already impeding the economy at a smaller scale. After a few rentable years, New France's fragile economy began to crumble, and by the end of his contract, Hocquart was held responsible for too many extraordinary expenses. He was called home and replaced by Francois Bigot. Nonetheless, the years between 1737 and 1741 were among the most prosperous in the history of New France. Early life There is an unfortunate lack of materials regarding Hocquart's personal history. What little sources remain are mostly professional exchanges between various officials, making it difficult to understand the man behind the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
