Victoria River (lake Mégantic)
he Victoria River (in French: rivière Victoria) is a tributary of the Chaudière River, therefore a sub-tributary of the St. Lawrence River.
| Victoria River | |
|---|---|
 Rivière Victoria près du lac Mégantic. | |
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| Native name | Rivière Victoria (French) |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Estrie |
| MRC | Le Granit Regional County Municipality |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lake Noël |
| • location | Val-Racine |
| • coordinates | 45.444929°N 71.088961°W |
| • elevation | 534 metres (1,752 ft) |
| Mouth | Lake Mégantic, Chaudière River |
• location | Marston |
• coordinates | 45.539944°N 70.928746°W |
• elevation | 388 metres (1,273 ft) |
| Length | 21.2 kilometres (13.2 mi) |
| Basin size | 140.5 kilometres (87.30 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Chaudière River, St. Lawrence River |
| River system | St. Lawrence River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | (upstream) décharge du lac McKenzie, ruisseau Boucher, ruisseau Saint-Joseph |
| • right | (upstream) |
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:
- north side: Gunn Creek, Glen River;
- east side: lake Mégantic, Quinion stream, Bergeron River;
- south side: Fromagerie stream, Déloge stream, Chesham River, Bergeron River;
- west side: rivière au Saumon, Turcotte stream.
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
Notes and references
- "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.
- Commission de toponymie du Québec, Banque de noms de lieux - Fiche Marston
- 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.
- - Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "rivière Victoria".