The Petit lac Saint-François (''in English: Little Lake Saint François'') is a lake located near the municipality of

Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine () is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,018 as of 2009. It is named after Saint Joseph, fat ...

in the administrative region of

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches (, ) is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the " Beauce" (; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachia ...

, in

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, ...

, in Canada. It receives the waters of the

Ashberham River The Ashberham river (''in French: rivière Ashberham'') is a tributary of Grand lac Saint François which constitutes the head lake of the Saint-François River. The course of the Ashberham River crosses the territory of the municipality of Sai ...

which has its source in Caribou Lake. The discharge of the lake joins the

Grand lac Saint François The Grand lac Saint-François () is a freshwater body covering , in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in southeastern Quebec, in Canada. This water body is located in two regional county municipality: * Le Granit Regional County ...

, source of the

Saint-François River The Saint-François River (, ) is a right tributary of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its source is Lake Saint-François in Chaudière-Appalaches, southeast of Thetford Mines. It flows southwest towards Sherbrooke, where it changes ...

which joins the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (, ) is a large international river in the middle latitudes of North America connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Its waters flow in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawrenc ...

Geography

Its area is approximately , its elevation is , and its maximum depth is . The route 112 gives access to the lake. An Abenaki reserve of which was named ''Colraine Reserve'' was granted in 1853 in range #10 and range #11 west of the lake shore.;Recherches Amérindiennes Au Québec, Volume 33 . it was abandoned in 1882. The Bécancour Trail (Abenaki Becancour Trail), passed by there, linked the

Bécancour River The Bécancour River () is a river flowing in the administrative region of Centre-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada. Geography The Bécancour takes its source from the lake of the same name in the town of Thetford Mines, in the Chaudière-Appalac ...

and the basin of the Saint-François river.

References

{{Reflist Lakes of Chaudière-Appalaches Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality