The Jacques-Cartier South River is a tributary of the

rivière Jacques-Cartier Nord-Ouest The Jacques-Cartier North-West River is a watercourse tributary of Jacques-Cartier River, located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capit ...

, located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the

La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality La Côte-de-Beaupré () is a regional county municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Château-Richer. Its most populous community is the municipality of Boischatel. Subdivisions There are 11 subdivisions withi ...

, in the administrative region of

Capitale-Nationale Capitale-Nationale (; ) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,684.78 km2. It reported ...

, in

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. The course of the river passes in particular in the

Jacques-Cartier National Park Jacques-Cartier National Park (, ) is a provincial park located north of Quebec City. The park aims to protect wildlife in the Laurentian massif. It lies within the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion. History The Montagnais and the Hur ...

. The head water is

Petit lac Jacques-Cartier The Petit lac Jacques-Cartier is a freshwater body that flows into the rivière Jacques-Cartier Sud, in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of C ...

. Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second. The surface of the "rivière Jacques-Cartier Sud" (except the rapids zones) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, but the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from the end of December to the beginning of March.

Geography

The main watersheds neighboring the Jacques-Cartier South River are: * north side:

Rivière Jacques-Cartier Nord-Ouest The Jacques-Cartier North-West River is a watercourse tributary of Jacques-Cartier River, located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capit ...

, Charles-Savary lake; * east side:

Jacques-Cartier River The Jacques-Cartier River is a river in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is 161 km long and its source is Jacques-Cartier Lake in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, and flows in a predominantly southern direction before ending in the Saint Lawr ...

, Rocheuse River; * south side:

, lac Gregory,

Tourilli River The Rivière Tourilli is a tributary of the Sainte-Anne River flowing in the unorganized territory of Lac-Croche and the municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, in the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative r ...

, Rivière Sainte-Anne; * west side:

. The Jacques-Cartier South River originates at

(length: ; altitude: , located in unorganized territory du Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the

. From the dam at the mouth of

, the Jacques-Cartier South river flows over , with a total drop of , according to the following segments: * towards the north by forming a curve towards the east by collecting the outlet (coming from the east) of Lac de l'Écuyer, up to the outlet (coming from the north) of Lake Saint-Hilaire; * northwards to its mouth.Departmental Atlas of Canada of Canada's Natural Resources - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, database and instrumentation of the site - consulted on January 6, 2020.
/ref> From the confluence of the Jacques-Cartier North-West river, the current flows over east, south-east, then east, following the course of the Jacques-Cartier North West River; then on south by the course of the

to the northeast bank of the

Saint-Laurent 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. Lawren ...

Toponymy

Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier (; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first Europeans, European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, wh ...

(

Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo language, Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany. The Fortification, walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth ...

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, 1491 - Saint-Malo, 1557), explorer and navigator, made three trips to

between 1534 and 1542. He s adventure in the New World in 1534, commissioned by François I to find gold and a passage to Asia. He explored Anticosti Island, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and, on July 24, he erected a cross in the bay of Gaspé as a sign of appropriation of the site. During his second journey, in 1535, Cartier went up the St. Lawrence River to Hochelaga (

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) and spent a difficult winter in Stadaconé (Quebec). Finally, in 1541, under the orders of Roberval, Cartier attempted to establish the first French colony in America. It settles at the mouth of the Cap-Rouge river which it names Charlesbourg-Royal. Cartier left the colony in June 1542, while Roberval was on his way to Canada. They meet in

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, and Cartier chooses to return to Saint-Malo. First cartographer of the St. Lawrence, he recognizes that the gold and diamonds found turn out to be iron pyrite and quartz. The toponym "rivière Jacques-Cartier Sud" was formalized on September 28, 2007, at the Place Names Bank of the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (, ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicizing Québec's place names and their origins according to th ...

.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Rivière Jacques-Cartier Sud
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