Frontier Lake (Quebec-Maine)

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Lake Frontier
Location Lac-Frontière, Montmagny Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Quebec
Coordinates 46°42′24″N70°00′04″W / 46.70667°N 70.00111°W / 46.70667; -70.00111 Coordinates: 46°42′24″N70°00′04″W / 46.70667°N 70.00111°W / 46.70667; -70.00111
Primary inflows Northwest Branch Black River
Primary outflows Northwest Branch Saint John River
Basin  countries Canada
Max. length 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi)
Max. width 0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi)
Surface elevation 347 metres (1,138 ft)
Settlements Lac-Frontière, Quebec

The Lake Frontier is a lake located entirely in the municipality of Lac-Frontière, Quebec in regional county municipality (RCM) Montmagny in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.

Lac-Frontière, Quebec Municipality in Quebec, Canada

Lac-Frontière is a municipality in Montmagny Regional County Municipality within the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is located at the border with the United States.

The term regional county municipality or RCM is used in Quebec to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county regional municipality.

Montmagny Regional County Municipality Regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada

Montmagny is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Montmagny is the seat. Its neighbouring RCMs are Bellechasse, Les Etchemins and L'Islet.

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From 1915, the small town South of the lake, called "Lac-Frontière" (English: Lake-Frontier), has had some development through the terminus of the Central Quebec railway.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the forest industry was the main economic activity of the region. Upon arrival of the railroad, the recreational and tourist vocation of the region has significantly developed.

Geography

Frontier lake supplies water by its tributary the Northwest Black River (from the North) and the Creek Reservoir (from the West). The village in the municipality of Lac-Frontière, Quebec is located at South of the lake.

The mouth of Frontier Lake is located on Southeast bank of the lake at:

Sainte-Lucie-de-Beauregard, Quebec Municipality in Quebec, Canada

Sainte-Lucie-de-Beauregard is a municipality in Quebec.

Toponymy

The choice of this place name is explained by its proximity to the US border. Established in 1842, this border in the Treaty of Webster-Ashburton, after lengthy negotiations between the British and the Americans.

Subsequently, the British set up camp on the banks of the lake, to accommodate their surveyors who went to topographic surveys in order to determine more precisely the border. At the same time, the inhabitants of the region of Montmagny had designated this expanse of water "English Lake", by associating it with the language of people who were there, both British Americans. Cartographic documents of the time translated this term as "English Lake" [1]

Montmagny, Quebec City in Quebec, Canada

Montmagny is a city in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality within the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is the county seat. Its population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 11,491.

The place name "Lake Frontier" was formalized as of December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Quebec Names Board). [2]

The Commission de toponymie du Québec is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules. It also provides recommendations to the government with regard to toponymic changes.

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References

  1. Source. "Names and places of Québec", the work of the Quebec Geographical Names Board, published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a dictionary illustrated print, and under that of a CD produced by the Micro-Intel in 1997 from the dictionary.
  2. Commission de toponymie du Québec (Quebec Place Names Board) - Banque des noms de lieux (Bank of place names) - Toponym: "Frontier Lake"