| Moe River | |
| Pushpin Map: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Estrie |
| Subdivision Type5: | Ville |
| Subdivision Name5: | Sherbrooke |
| Length: | 36.7km (22.8miles) |
| Source1: | Unidentified lake |
| Source1 Location: | East Hereford |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 45.0857°N -71.4987°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 462m (1,516feet) |
| Mouth: | Rivière aux Saumons |
| Mouth Location: | Sherbrooke |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 45.3186°N -71.8242°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 150m (490feet) |
| Progression: | Rivière aux Saumons, Massawippi River, Saint-François River, Saint Lawrence River |
| Tributaries Left: | (upstream) deux décharges de lac, ruisseau Bélanger, décharge du lac Lippé |
| Tributaries Right: | (upstream) ruisseau Adam, ruisseau Audet, ruisseau Hébert, décharge du lac Duquette. |
The Moe River is a watercourse flowing in the administrative region of Estrie to Quebec, Canada. It is a tributary of the rivière aux Saumons which successively flows into the Massawippi River, into the Saint-François River, therefore a sub-tributary of the Saint Lawrence River.
From Head Lake, the course of the Moe River descends on with a drop of in the following segments:
Fed by several small streams at the foot of Mount Hereford, the Moe River follows a very narrow and winding course, passes through the village of Compton and is a branch of the rivière aux Saumons (Massawippi River tributary) (not to be confused with the rivière au Saumon (Le Haut-Saint-François)); it flows into the Massawippi River, near Lennoxville which is merged with Saint-François River, in Sherbrooke, in Estrie.[1]
The name of this watercourse perpetuates the memory of Austin Moe, a native of Vermont who settled in Ascot Township in 1795. He was one of Gilbert Hyatt's associates, founder of Hyatt's Mills, today Sherbrooke. The hamlet of Moe's River, a small exclusively agricultural agglomeration, was developed around the middle of the 19th century on the west bank of the river. Despite the francization of the generic, the spelling of the English toponym, by omitting the apostrophe, that is to say Moes, was perpetuated for a certain time.[2]
The toponym "rivière Moe" was made official on December 13, 1996, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[3]