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Lake St. Louis is the second of three fluvial lakes on the St. Lawrence River; upstream of it is Lake Saint Francis, and downstream is Lake Saint Pierre. Lake St. Louis has an average flow of 8,400 cubic metres per second (300,000 cu ft/s). [1] The lake has many species of fish, including yellow perch.
It is located on the Saint Lawrence River between Lake Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. The lake forms part of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The city of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is located at the east end of the lake. Lac Saint-François National Wildlife Area, located on the south shore of the lake, protects wetlands located on the shores of the lake.
Frontenac National Park (French: Parc national de Frontenac) is a 156.5 km 2 provincial park in southeastern Quebec, Canada, [1] created in 1987 and governed by Société des établissements de plein air du Québec. The park is located along Lac Saint-François roughly halfway between Quebec City and Sherbrooke. The nearest city is Thetford Mines.
The place was mentioned in 1687 by Marquis de Denonville.His record stated that "Costeau du Lac is a place where one stopped on the way to the Rapides d'en Haut", referring to a small hillside (French: coteau) on the north side of the St. Lawrence River near the mouth of Lake Saint Francis (French: lac Saint-François).
Louis-Pascal-Achille Taché (1813-1839), seigneur of Kamouraska since 1833, was married to Joséphine- Éléonore d’Estimauville. In 1839 she took her children to her mother in Sorel, to leave her abusive husband. [5] Taché was said to be killed by George Holmes, an American doctor from Sorel who was thought to be a lover of his wife. Holmes ...
Saint-François-du-Lac was founded as a French Jesuit mission village for converted Abenaki and other native peoples during the colonial years. The community was called St.-Francois-de-Sales, after a French saint, or Odanak, the Abenaki name. Indians in the community included Abenaki and refugees from other tribes and the wars with English ...
Repentigny (French pronunciation: [ʁəpɑ̃tiɲi] ⓘ) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.It is located north of the city on the lower end of the L'Assomption River, and on the Saint Lawrence River.
Before 2007, the lake was called Lac Saint-François. It was renamed to avoid confusion with Petit lac Saint-François (Ashberham) which is located 1.5 km northwest of it. [2] In 1815, the vast territory where the lake is located was not yet surveyed as mentioned by Joseph Bouchette in his book “Description topographique du Bas-Canada”. He ...