Pascagama River

Pascagama
	Watershed of Nottaway River
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Nord-du-Québec
Physical characteristics
Source	Marceau Lake
⁃ location	La Tuque, Mauricie, Quebec
⁃ coordinates	48°57′06″N75°01′22″W / 48.95167°N 75.02278°W
⁃ elevation	464 m (1,522 ft)
Mouth	Pascagama Lake
⁃ location	Senneterre, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec
⁃ coordinates	48°37′52″N75°33′25″W / 48.63111°N 75.55694°W Coordinates: 48°37′52″N75°33′25″W / 48.63111°N 75.55694°W
⁃ elevation	393 m (1,289 ft)
Length	82.5 km (51.3 mi) [1]

Last updated August 23, 2019

The Pascagama River is a tributary of Pascagama Lake. It flows in the Northwest of Quebec, in Canada, in the administrative regions of:

Pascagama Lake is a freshwater body of the eastern part of Senneterre in La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the administrative region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This body of water extends in the townships of Deschamps, Logan and Bernier.

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern border with the United States, stretching some 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world's longest bi-national land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Mauricie: in the extreme west of the territory of the town of La Tuque (canton of Deschamps);
Abitibi-Témiscamingue: in the easternmost part of Senneterre, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality (RCM), where is its mouth. In this region, the course of the river successively crosses the townships of Marceau, Buteux, Lagacé, Coursol and Juneau.

Mauricie Administrative region in Quebec, Canada

Mauricie is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making it a prime tourist location. The region has a land area of 35,855.22 km² and a 2006 census population of 258,928 residents. Its largest cities are Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan.

Abitibi-Témiscamingue Administrative region in Quebec, Canada

Abitibi-Témiscamingue is an administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of 57,674.26 km². The region is divided into five regional county municipalities and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by resource extraction industries. These include logging, mining all along the rich geologic Cadillac Fault between Val-d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda, as well as agriculture.

Senneterre is a town in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of northwestern Quebec, Canada. It is in the Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. The town's territory includes a vast undeveloped area stretching from the Bell River to the Mauricie region. The town centre itself is about 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Val-d'Or on the banks of the Bell River, at the intersection of the Canadian National Railway and Quebec Route 113.

Forestry is the main economic activity of this watershed; recreational tourism activities come second.

The surface of the river is usually frozen from early November to the end of April, however, safe ice circulation is generally from early December to mid-April.

Geography

The Pascagama River originates at the mouth of Lake Marceau (length: 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi), altitude: 465 metres (1,526 ft)) in Marceau Township. The mouth of this lake is located at:

118.6 kilometres (73.7 mi) north-west of the village center of Parent, Quebec;
6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) south of the boundary between the administrative regions of Mauricie (La Tuque) and the Eeyou Istchee Baie-James (municipality);
37.7 kilometres (23.4 mi) east of the boundary between the administrative regions of Mauricie (La Tuque) and Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Senneterre;
32.3 kilometres (20.1 mi) northwest of the village center of Obedjiwan;
127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi) north-east of downtown Senneterre;
52.9 kilometres (32.9 mi) north-east of the confluence of the Pascagama River with Parent Lake (Abitibi).

Parent, Quebec Village in Quebec, Canada

Parent is a community in northern Quebec, Canada, located within the City of La Tuque and about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north-west of La Tuque's town centre. In 2011, it had a population of 611.

The Municipality of Baie-James was a municipality in northern Quebec, Canada, which existed from 1971 to 2012. Located to the east of James Bay, Baie-James covered 297,332.84 km² (114,800.85 sq mi) of land, making it the largest incorporated municipality in Canada — only eight unorganized territories were larger. Its territory almost entirely covered the administrative region of Jamésie, although it contained less than five percent of the population. Essentially, it was the remainder of the Jamésie Territory's land after all of the major population centres were removed.

Obedjiwan is a First Nations reserve and village on the north shore of Gouin Reservoir in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. It belongs to the Atikamekw d'Opitciwan band of the Atikamekw Nation.

From the mouth of Marceau Lake, the Pascagama River flows over 82.5 kilometres (51.3 mi), according to the following segments:

13.9 kilometres (8.6 mi) northwesterly forming two northeasterly curves to the northeastern shore of an unidentified lake;
2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) to the southwest, including crossing an unidentified lake (length: 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi); altitude: 425 metres (1,394 ft), up to at the limit of the township of Buteux;
10.9 kilometres (6.8 mi) southwesterly in the township of Buteaux, to the limit of the canton of Lagacé;
19.5 kilometres (12.1 mi) southwesterly, forming a southward curve at the beginning of the segment, to the eastern limit of the township of Coursol;
4.4 kilometres (2.7 mi) southerly overlapping the limit of the Lagacé and Coursol townships, and forming a loop towards the east, to the middle of an unidentified lake (altitude: 394 metres (1,293 ft));
9.7 kilometres (6.0 mi) southwesterly through Coursol Township through areas of widening river to the northern limit of Juneau Township;
17.3 kilometres (10.7 mi) southwesterly in the township of Juneau, forming a hook to the east of 0.6 kilometres (0.37 mi) to the east limit of the township of Deschamps;
3.9 kilometres (2.4 mi) to the southwest in Deschamps Township in Senneterre to the mouth of the river.^[2]

The Pascagama River flows on the north shore of Pascagama Lake in the Township of Deschamps to:

16.3 kilometres (10.1 mi) west of Gouin Reservoir;
45.9 kilometres (28.5 mi) south-west of village center of Obedjiwan;
127.6 kilometres (79.3 mi) north-east of downtown Senneterre;
110.6 kilometres (68.7 mi) north-east of the mouth of Parent Lake (Abitibi);
20.4 kilometres (12.7 mi) north of the mouth of Pascagama Lake which flows into the Mégiscane River.

The Gouin Reservoir is a man-made lake, in La Tuque, in Mauricie, in the central portion of the Canadian provinceof Quebec, fully within the boundaries of the City of La Tuque. It is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of connected lakes separated by innumerable bays, peninsulas, and islands with highly irregular shapes. It has therefore a relative long shoreline of over 5,600 km compared to its surface area of 1,570 km². It is the source of the Saint-Maurice River.

The Mégiscane River is a tributary of Parent Lake (Abitibi). It flows in the Northwest of Quebec, in Canada, in the administrative regions of:

Toponymy

The term "Pascagama" is of Algonquin origin and refers to a camp, dam, lake and river.

The toponym "Pascagama River" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec, when the commission was created.^[3]

Notes and references

↑ "Atlas of Canada". atlas.nrcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
↑ River segments measured from the Atlas of Canada (published on the Internet) of the Department of Natural Resources Canada.
↑ Commission de toponymie du Quebec - Bank of Place Names - Toponym: "Pascagama River"

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[Atlas-1] "Atlas of Canada". atlas.nrcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-01-21.

[2] River segments measured from the Atlas of Canada (published on the Internet) of the Department of Natural Resources Canada.

[3] Commission de toponymie du Quebec - Bank of Place Names - Toponym: "Pascagama River"

Pascagama River

Contents

Geography

Toponymy

See also

Notes and references

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