Victoria River (lake Mégantic)

Victoria River
Victoria River near lake Mégantic
Victoria River (lake Mégantic) is located in Quebec
Victoria River (lake Mégantic)
Native nameRivière Victoria (French)
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
RegionEstrie
MRCLe Granit Regional County Municipality
Physical characteristics
SourceLake Noël
 • locationVal-Racine
 • coordinates45°26′42″N 71°05′20″W / 45.444929°N 71.088961°W / 45.444929; -71.088961
 • elevation534 metres (1,752 ft)
MouthLake Mégantic, Chaudière River
 • location
Marston
 • coordinates
45°32′24″N 70°55′43″W / 45.539944°N 70.928746°W / 45.539944; -70.928746
 • elevation
388 metres (1,273 ft)
Length21.2 kilometres (13.2 mi)
Basin size140.5 kilometres (87.30 mi)
Basin features
ProgressionChaudière River, St. Lawrence River
River systemSt. Lawrence River
Tributaries 
 • left(upstream) décharge du lac McKenzie, ruisseau Boucher, ruisseau Saint-Joseph
 • right(upstream)

The Victoria River (in French: rivière Victoria) is a tributary of the Chaudière River, therefore a sub-tributary of the St. Lawrence River.

The Victoria River flows through the municipalities of Val-Racine, Piopolis and Marston, in the Le Granit Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec, in Canada.

Geography

The main neighboring slopes of the Victoria River are:

The Victoria River has its source in Noël Lake (length: 0.4 kilometres (0.25 mi); altitude: 534 metres (1,752 ft)). This lake is located 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) east of the summit of Mont Saint-Joseph which is located on the eastern flank of Mont Mégantic. This spring is located 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi) north of the center of the village of Notre-Dame-des-Bois and 3.9 kilometres (2.4 mi) south-west of the center of the village of Val-Racine.

In its course to the north, then to the east, the Victoria River flows over 21.2 kilometres (13.2 mi) divided into the following segments:

  • 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) towards the north, collecting various streams which drains the northeast flank of Mont Mégantic, until a road that it cuts at 1.0 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of the center of the village of Val-Racine;
  • 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) north-east, to the road that it intersects at 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) east of the center of the village of Val-Racine;
  • 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-east, up to a stream (coming from the west);
  • 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) east, until you reach a road;
  • 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) northeasterly, up to the limit between the municipalities of Val-Racine and Piopolis;
  • 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) eastward, up to the boundary between the municipalities of Piopolis and Marston;
  • 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) eastward, collecting the discharge from lac McKenzie (Marston) (coming from the northwest), to route 263;
  • 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) eastward, up to its confluence.[1]

The Victoria River flows onto the west shore of Victoria Bay of lake Mégantic in the municipality of Marston.[2] This confluence is located southeast of the center of the village of Marsboro, southeast of downtown Lac-Mégantic and north of the village of Piopolis. A bridge has been built near the confluence of the Victoria River, at the foot of the "Côte du Bois", between the hamlets of Vieux - Piopolis and Marsboro.

Toponymy

The toponym of this watercourse was attributed around the middle of the XIXth in honor of Queen Victoria, whose reign extended from 1837 to 1901.[3]

The toponym "Rivière Victoria" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, the database and the site instrumentation". Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  2. ^ Commission de toponymie du Québec, Banque de noms de lieux - Fiche Marston
  3. ^ Source: "Names and Places du Québec", work by the Commission de toponymie du Québec, published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and in that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
  4. ^ - Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "rivière Victoria".