The Hanotaux Bay is a freshwater body located in the south-west part of Gouin Reservoir, in the territory of the town of La Tuque, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
This bay extends mainly in the canton of Hanotaux (part South-East) in the south-western part of the Gouin Reservoir. This bay is partially overflowing in Crémazie township (east side) and Poisson township (south side).
Recreotourism activities are the main economic activity of the sector. Forestry comes second.
The surface of Hanotaux Bay is usually frozen from mid-November to the end of April, however, safe ice circulation is generally from early December to late March.
Geography
The main hydrographic slopes near Hanotaux Bay are:
Hanotaux Bay, which is a length of 8.0 kilometres (5.0mi), is shaped like a deformed X with an archipelago of about fifty islands at its center. This X is described as follows:
the North-West arm stretches over 3.9 kilometres (2.4mi) forming some secondary bays;
the Northeast arm has a bay of 1.8 kilometres (1.1mi) which is crossed off to the east by a peninsula stretching south for about 2.5 kilometres (1.6mi), limit of the cantons of Crémazie and Hanotaux;
the Southeast arm (length: 0.7 kilometres (0.43mi)) includes the outlet of the bay, attached to the southwestern part of Du Mâle Lake;
the Southwest arm stretches over 3.6 kilometres (2.2mi) as far as Poisson Township by collecting the waters of the Adolphe-Poisson Bay.
The current from the Adolphe-Poisson Bay bypasses the South on 5.0 kilometres (3.1mi) and by the North on 6.1 kilometres (3.8mi), an island (length: 5.5 kilometres (3.4mi)) which delimits the southern part of the mouth of Hanotaux Bay. On the north side of this island, waters from the Adolphe-Poisson Bay mix with the waters of Hanotaux Bay near the mouth of the bay.
From the mouth of Hanotaux Bay (located between the large island at the mouth of the Adolphe-Poisson Bay) and the peninsula from the North, the current flows over 122.8 kilometres (76.3mi) to Gouin Dam, according to the following segments:
81.9 kilometres (50.9mi) to the East, crossing the Marmette Lake, then to the South-East crossing in particular the Brochu Lake then to the East crossing the Kikendatch Bay until Gouin Dam.
This hydronym evokes the work of life of the academician Gabriel Hanotaux (Beaurevoir, Ainse, 1853 - Paris, 1944) including his participation in the First Congress of the French language in Canada held in Quebec City in 1912 Hanotaux was president of the Champlain Mission composed of several French personalities, politicians and men of letters.
Gabriel Hanotaux has had a prestigious career. Archivist-paleographer, Hanotaux is a professor at the "Ecole des Hautes Etudes" before becoming a Foreign Affairs Attaché and fulfilling several diplomatic missions, notably in Constantinople. Member of the Aisne (1886), he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1894 to 1898. He devoted himself thereafter to his work as a historian.
Specialist of Richelieu and Egyptian history, Hanotaux directs, between 1920 and 1929, the publication "Histoire de la nation française" (‘English: "History of the French nation") whose first volume contains the important "Human Geography of France", written by Jean Brunhes. From 1930 to 1934, he published, in collaboration, a History of the French colonies and the expansion of France in the world, a work where Canada and Quebec occupy a good place. The toponym "Baie Hanotaux" was adopted by the Commission de géographie, the current Commission de toponymie du Québec, on July 5, 1951.[2]
↑ Measured Distances from the Atlas of Canada (published on the Internet) of the Department of Natural Resources of Canada.
↑ Source: Names and places of Quebec, work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec published in 1994 and 1996 under the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and under that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
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