Osgood River Explained

Osgood River
Subdivision Type1:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	Canada
Subdivision Type2:	Province
Subdivision Name2:	Quebec
Subdivision Type3:	Region
Subdivision Name3:	Chaudière-Appalaches
Subdivision Type4:	MRC
Subdivision Name4:	Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality
Length:	21.4km (13.3miles)
Source1:	Gagné River, ruisseau Prévost
Source1 Location:	Kinnear's Mills
Source1 Coordinates:	46.1856°N -71.285°W
Source1 Elevation:	553m (1,814feet)
Mouth:	Palmer River
Mouth Location:	Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds
Mouth Coordinates:	46.2978°N -71.3775°W
Mouth Elevation:	206m (676feet)
Progression:	Palmer River, Bécancour River, St. Lawrence River
Tributaries Left:	(upstream) ruisseau Prévost, Gagné River
Tributaries Right:	(upstream) Sunday River
Country:	Canada

The Osgood River (French: rivière Osgood) is a tributary of the Palmer River, which is a tributary of the Bécancour River, in Quebec, in Canada; the latter being in turn a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Osgood River flows through the regional county municipalities of:

• L'Érable Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the region administrative office of Centre-du-Québec: municipalities of Kinnear's Mills, Inverness;
• Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches: municipalities of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds.

Geography

The main neighboring watersheds of the Osgood River are:

• north side: Palmer River;
• east side: Sunday River, Perry River, Palmer East River;
• south side: Sunday River, Prévost-Gilbert River, Ashberham River, Blanche River (Thetford Mines), Gagné River, Bagot River;
• west side: Bécancour River, Bullard stream.

The Osgood River has its source in the heart of the hamlet of Plage-Lemieux, at Kinnear's Mills, by the confluence of the Gagné River, and the Prévost stream, a few meters from the road bridge of fourth rank.^[1]

From its source, the Osgood River flows on in the following segments:

• northwesterly to the bridge southwest of the village of Kinnear's Mills;
• north, to the route 216 bridge;
• north, to the municipal boundary of Inverness;
• north, crossing the eastern part of the territory of Inverness, to the municipal limit of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds;
• northerly, passing west of the village of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds, to the confluence of the Sunday River;
• north, crossing route 271, up to its confluence.^[2]

The Osgood River empties on the south bank of the Palmer River in the Municipality of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds. Its confluence is located upstream of the municipal boundary of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds.

Toponymy

The toponym Osgood River evokes the name of the pioneer Osgood who had settled at the beginning of the 19th century along this river. The spelling of this watercourse took the form of Osgoode under the pen of certain authors.^[3]

The toponym Osgood River was formalized on October 6, 1983, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.^[4]

See also

• List of rivers of Quebec

Notes and References

1. Web site: fr. Regulation 129 - MRC des Appalaches. File PDF. January 10, 2013. 2016-07-13. .
2. Web site: Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, database and site instrumentation. 2021-01-01.
3. Source: "Names and places of Quebec", work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec, published in 1994 and 1996 under in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and in that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
4. http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=127358 Commission de toponymie du Québec - Place names bank - Toponym: "rivière Osgood"