Oskélanéo Lake is a freshwater body linked to the southwestern part of the

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 lake ...

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Bureau Lake (Gouin Reservoir) The Lac Bureau is a vast freshwater body of the southwestern part of the Gouin Reservoir, in the territory of the town of La Tuque, in Haute-Mauricie, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This lake exte ...

, in the territory of the town of

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, in the administrative region of

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, in the

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. All of the lake is in the canton of Faucher. Since the completion of the Gouin Dam in 1948, the navigability between the

and Lake Oskélanéo has become even easier with only two meters of difference in elevation. Recreational tourism activities are the main economic activity of the sector, followed by forestry. The

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cuts Oskélanéo Lake east-west in its middle through the village of Oskélanéo, on the west nbank. Route 404 serves the valley of the

Oskélanéo River The Oskélanéo River is a tributary of the South Bay of Bureau Lake (Gouin Reservoir), flowing into the town of La Tuque, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada. The Oskélanéo River runs successively in the cantons of F ...

and connects to the Southeast at Route 400, which connects the Gouin Dam and the village of Parent, Quebec, also serves the valleys of rivers Jean-Pierre and Leblanc. The former road also serves the peninsula, which stretches north in the

on . A few secondary forest roads are in use nearby for forestry and recreational tourism activities. The surface of Oskélanéo Lake is usually frozen from mid-November to late April, but the period of safe ice circulation is generally from early December to late March.

Geography

Toponymy

The toponym "Lac Oskélanéo" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the

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, when it was created.Commission de toponymie du Québec - List of place names - Toponym: "Lac Oskélanéo".
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Geography

Toponymy

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