| Morin River | |
| Pushpin Map: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean |
| Subdivision Type4: | Regional County Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality |
| Subdivision Type5: | Unorganized territory |
| Subdivision Name5: | Lac-Ministuk |
| Length: | 33.1km (20.6miles) |
| Discharge1 Location: | Lac-Ministuk |
| Source1: | Mountain stream |
| Source1 Location: | Lac-Ministuk |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 48.0205°N -71.6289°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 590m (1,940feet) |
| Mouth: | Rivière aux Écorces |
| Mouth Location: | Lac-Ministuk |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 48.2119°N -71.5597°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 340m (1,120feet) |
| Tributaries Left: | (from the mouth) Décharge du Lac des Trois Îles, décharge du lac Choquette, décharge du lac des Panicauts. |
| Tributaries Right: | (from the mouth) Décharge du lac Fermé et du lac du Couloir, décharge du lac Morin, décharge des lacs de l'Éminence, Supra et Annelet, décharge du lac Cadieux. |
The Morin river is a tributary of the Rivière aux Écorces, flowing in the unorganized territory of Lac-Ministuk, in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in province from Quebec, to Canada. The course of the Morin River crosses the northwestern part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.
The small Morin River valley is located near route 169. This valley is also served by some secondary forest roads, especially for forestry and recreational tourism activities.[1]
Forestry is the main economic activity in this valley; recreational tourism, second.
The surface of the Morin River is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.
This watercourse flows parallel to the Rivière aux Écorces before flowing into it, near the Sawine River. It drains in particular Lake Morin and Lake Cadieux, formerly called Petit Lake Morin, whose respective areas are and . The Morin River crosses the road connecting Quebec (city) to Lac-Saint-Jean, in the northern part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve; both the lake and the river are used for speckled trout fishing.
The main watersheds neighboring the Morin River are:
The Morin River originates from a mountain stream (altitude:) in a forest area in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve. This source is located at:
From its source, the Morin river flows over with a drop of entirely in the forest zone, according to the following segments:
Upper course of the Morin River (segment of)
Intermediate course of the Morin River (segment of)
Lower course of the Morin River (segment of)
The Morin River flows onto the south bank of the Rivière aux Écorces. This confluence is located at:
From the mouth of the Morin river, the current successively follows the course of the Rivière aux Écorces on towards the northeast, the course of the Pikauba River on generally towards the north, crosses Kenogami Lake on towards the northeast until barrage de Portage-des-Roches, then follows the course of the river Chicoutimi on to the east, then the northeast and the course of the Saguenay river on east to Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence estuary.
In 1914, this watercourse appeared on a map under the name of "Rivière Vaseuse"; in 1928, the same name appears on another card accompanied by the variant "Rivière Morin". This last toponym is indicated later on maps of 1943 and 1954.
The name of Morin evokes the life work of Joseph Morin (Baie-Saint-Paul, 1854 - Québec, 1915), merchant, farmer and secretary-treasurer of the Charlevoix municipality, before embarking on active politics. He was elected Liberal MP for the riding of Charlevoix from 1886 to 1897, then re-elected in 1900. Not having stood in the 1904 election, he was appointed governor of the prison in Quebec (city) two years later, a post he held from 1906 to 1915.
More than a hundred geographic entities, essentially lakes and small rivers, evoke various people of this patronym in different regions of Quebec territory.[3]
The toponym "Rivière Morin" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[4]