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Sanmaur, Quebec
Sanmaur (a contraction of ''Saint-Maurice'') is a village in the Haute-Mauricie, in La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque, in Québec, Canada. Sanmaur was incorporated into the city of La Tuque in 2003. History This village was established in 1914 by the company responsible for the construction of the Gouin Reservoir, La Loutre Dam. Sanmaur was supported in 1940 by the Brown Corporation, a logging company operating in Mauricie. Sanmaur is located on the banks of the Saint-Maurice River in front of Wemotaci, Quebec, Wemotaci and near the mouth of the Manouane River (La Tuque), Manouane River. Geography Sanmaur is located in the forest on the west bank of the Saint-Maurice River in front of Wemotaci, Quebec, Wemotaci and south of the mouth of Manouane River (La Tuque), Manouane River. A bridge spans the Saint-Maurice River, connecting Sanmaur and Wemotaci, built downstream of an island measuring 2.4 km long and 0.65 km maximum width. This bridge is located 5.5 km upstre ...
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La Tuque, Quebec
La Tuque ( , , ) is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord, Quebec, Chambord. The population was 11,129 at the 2021 Canadian census, most of which live within the Population centre (Canada), urban area. At over , it is the List of the largest cities and towns in Canada by area, largest city in Canada by area. The canoeing race begins at La Tuque. The name, which dates to the eighteenth century, originates from a nearby rock formation which resembles a French-Canadian knitted cap known as the tuque. In 1823–24, the explorer François Verreault described the location as: The hat-shaped mountain which gave its name to the town of La Tuque is located between the Saint-Maurice River (left bank) and the WestRock paper mill. The summit of this mountain is about . It is located from the river and about upstream (northeast side) of the La Tuque hydroelectric power plant. History The territory of La Tuque ...
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Québec
Quebec is Canada's 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, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the French colony of ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was confederated with Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in 1867. Until the early 1960s, the Catholic Church played a large role in the social and cultural institutions in Quebec. However, the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 1980s increased the role of the Government of Q ...
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ...
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La Tuque
La Tuque ( , , ) is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. The population was 11,129 at the 2021 Canadian census, most of which live within the urban area. At over , it is the largest city in Canada by area. The canoeing race begins at La Tuque. The name, which dates to the eighteenth century, originates from a nearby rock formation which resembles a French-Canadian knitted cap known as the tuque. In 1823–24, the explorer François Verreault described the location as: The hat-shaped mountain which gave its name to the town of La Tuque is located between the Saint-Maurice River (left bank) and the WestRock paper mill. The summit of this mountain is about . It is located from the river and about upstream (northeast side) of the La Tuque hydroelectric power plant. History The territory of La Tuque was first inhabited by Atikamekw Indigenous people. In the early 1850s, settlers were drawn to th ...
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LES or Les may refer to: People * Les (given name) * Les (surname) * L.E.S. (producer), hip hop producer Space flight * Launch Entry Suit, worn by Space Shuttle crews * Launch escape system, for spacecraft emergencies * Lincoln Experimental Satellite series, 1960s and 1970s Biology and medicine * Lazy eye syndrome, or amblyopia, a disorder in the human optic nerve * The Liverpool epidemic strain of ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' * Lower esophageal sphincter * Lupus erythematosus systemicus Places * The Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City * Les, Catalonia, a municipality in Spain * Leş, a village in Nojorid Commune, Bihor County, Romania * ''Les'', the Hungarian name for Leșu Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Les, a village in Tejakula district, Buleleng regency, Bali, Indonesia * Lesotho, IOC and UNDP country code * Lès, a word featuring in many French placenames Transport * Leigh-on-Sea railway station, National Rail station code * Leyto ...
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Gouin Reservoir
The Gouin Reservoir (, ) is a reservoir (water), man-made lake, fully within the boundaries of the La Tuque, Quebec, City of La Tuque, Quebec, Canada. It is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of connected lakes separated by innumerable bays, peninsulas, and islands with highly irregular shapes. It has therefore a relative long shoreline of over (excluding islands) compared to its surface area of . It is the source of the Saint-Maurice River. This large reservoir extends into the cantons of (in order, in row from north to south): * Mathieu, Verreau; * Lacasse, Toussaint, McSweeney, Magnan, Lindsay; * Hanotaux, Cremazie, Lemay, Marmette, Brochu, Déziel; * Poisson, Evanturel, Myrand, Chapman, Nevers, Aubin, Levasseur; * Achintre, Sulte, Huguenin, Delage, Leblanc, Bureau. Recreational tourism activities With a total of of waterways, this reservoir is a popular fishing destination with numerous commercial outfitters and private lodges along its ...
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Saint-Maurice River
The Saint-Maurice River (, ; ) is one of the main tributaries of the St. Lawrence River, after the Ottawa River, Ottawa and the Saguenay River, Saguenay Rivers and drains an area of 42,735 km2. It touches the Lac Saint-Jean, Lake Saint John watershed to the north; the Nottaway River watershed, a major tributary of James Bay, to the northwest; and the southwestern tributaries of the Ottawa River. The Saint-Maurice River is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. The main tributaries of the Saint-Maurice River are: * Matawin River (Quebec), Matawin River, whose mouth is at Rivière Matawin (Hamlet), Matawin (Hamlet); * Vermillon River (La Tuque) which empties about 23 km, 14 miles (by water) upstream (north) of the Beaumont generating station in La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque; * Manouane River (La Tuque) which empties about 115 km, 70 miles (by water) upstream (north) of La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque; * La Trenche River (La Tuque) which empties near ...
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Mégiscane River
The Mégiscane River is a tributary of Parent Lake (Abitibi). It flows in the Northwest of Quebec, in Canada, in the administrative regions of: *Mauricie: in the westernmost part of the town of La Tuque; *Abitibi-Témiscamingue: in the territory of Senneterre (parish), in Abitibi Regional County Municipality. Its mouth is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Despinassy, Quebec. The Mégiscane River is one of the most important rivers in the region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue. It has the reputation of being a privileged place to fish for sturgeon. Forestry is the main economic activity of this watershed; recreational tourism activities come second. The surface of the river is generally frozen from mid-December to the end of April. Geography The Mégiscane River rises at the mouth of Lac Françoise (length: ; elevation: ). This lake is located on the east side of Barrot Lake (which is the head lake of the Chênevert River), at: * east of the Suzie River; * west of the bou ...
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Suzie River
The Suzie River is a tributary of the Mégiscane River flowing into the municipality of Senneterre in La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the administrative region Abitibi-Témiscamingue, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. The Suzie River crosses the townships Jalobert, Bourgmont, Bongard, Logan and Bernier. The course deviated by the dams flows rather in the canton of Brécourt via Lake Brécourt. The Suzie River flows entirely on forest land north-east of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and on the west side of Gouin Reservoir. Forestry is the main economic activity of this hydrographic slope; recreational tourism activities, second. The surface of the river is usually frozen from mid-December to mid-April. Geography History In 1948, the Government of Quebec approved the Shawinigan Water & Power Company project to raise the Gouin Reservoir, in order to increase the flow of the Saint-Maurice River and consequently increase the hydro-electric prod ...
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Mauricie
Mauricie () is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making tourism in Mauricie popular. The region has a land area of 35,860.05 km2 (13,845.64 sq mi) and a population of 266,112 residents as of the 2016 Census. Its largest cities are Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan. The word ''Mauricie'' was coined by local priest and historian Albert Tessier and is based on the Saint-Maurice river which runs through the region on a North-South axis. Mauricie administrative region was created on August 20, 1997 from the split of Mauricie–Bois-Francs administrative region into Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec. However, the concept of Mauricie as a traditional region long predates this. Administrative divisions Regional county municipalities * Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality * Maskinongé Regional County Municipality * Mékinac Regional County Municipality Equivalent territories * Agglomeratio ...
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Wemotaci, Quebec
Wemotaci (designated as Weymontachie 23 until 1997) is a First Nations reserve on the north shore of the Saint-Maurice River at the mouth of the Manouane River in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Together with the Obedjiwan and the Coucoucache Indian Reserve No. 24, it belongs to the Atikamekw First Nation.Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Aboriginal Community profileWemotaci First Nation/ref> The reserve, an enclave within the city of La Tuque, is bordered to the west and south by the Saint-Maurice River, whereas its eastern boundary is about long, and its northern boundary is . It is accessible by gravel road from La Tuque's town centre through the hamlet of Sanmaur that is on the opposite shore of the Saint-Maurice River. Also at this location, the Canadian National Railway crosses the river and has a siding at Sanmaur. Economy The local economy is based on the art and craft, shops and services, forestry, trapping, construction, tourism, transport and outfitter ...
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Manouane River (La Tuque)
The Manouane River flows from west to east in the Haute-Mauricie (Upper-Mauricie), at northwest of La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque, in the administrative region of Lanaudière and Mauricie, in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The river basin is mostly covered by forest. Geography Manouane River is one of the five major tributaries of the Saint-Maurice River, where it discharges opposite to the village of Wemotaci, Quebec, Wemotaci, located about 115 km north of La Tuque, Quebec, La Tuque in Upper Mauricie. The mouth of Manouane River is located between Chute Allard dam and Gouin reservoir dam (at the head of Saint-Maurice River). Manouane River quenches including several large bodies of water, such as lakes Châteauvert Lake (La Tuque), Châteauvert, Manouane Lake, Manouane and Kempt Lake, Kempt. The White River (La Tuque) (flowing north-east and north-south at the end of his course) is the main tributary of the Manouane River; it discharges on the left bank at 1.6 km from ...
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