Victoria River (lake Mégantic) explained

Victoria River
Pushpin Map:	Quebec
Subdivision Type1:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	Canada
Subdivision Type2:	Province
Subdivision Name2:	Quebec
Subdivision Type3:	Region
Subdivision Name3:	Estrie
Subdivision Type4:	MRC
Subdivision Name4:	Le Granit Regional County Municipality
Source1:	Lake Noël
Mouth:	Lake Mégantic, Chaudière River
Mouth Location:	Marston
Progression:	Chaudière River, St. Lawrence River
River System:	St. Lawrence River
Basin Size:	140.5km (87.3miles)
Tributaries Left:	(upstream) décharge du lac McKenzie, ruisseau Boucher, ruisseau Saint-Joseph
Tributaries Right:	(upstream)

The Victoria River (in French: rivière Victoria) is a tributary of the Chaudière River, therefore a sub-tributary of the St. Lawrence River.

The Victoria River flows through the municipalities of Val-Racine, Piopolis and Marston, in the Le Granit Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec, in Canada.

Geography

The main neighboring slopes of the Victoria River are:

• north side: Gunn Creek, Glen River;
• east side: lake Mégantic, Quinion stream, Bergeron River;
• south side: Fromagerie stream, Déloge stream, Chesham River, Bergeron River;
• west side: rivière au Saumon, Turcotte stream.

The Victoria River has its source in Noël Lake (length: ; altitude:). This lake is located east of the summit of Mont Saint-Joseph which is located on the eastern flank of Mont Mégantic. This spring is located north of the center of the village of Notre-Dame-des-Bois and south-west of the center of the village of Val-Racine.

In its course to the north, then to the east, the Victoria River flows over divided into the following segments:

• towards the north, collecting various streams which drains the northeast flank of Mont Mégantic, until a road that it cuts at south of the center of the village of Val-Racine;
• north-east, to the road that it intersects at east of the center of the village of Val-Racine;
• north-east, up to a stream (coming from the west);
• east, until you reach a road;
• northeasterly, up to the limit between the municipalities of Val-Racine and Piopolis;
• eastward, up to the boundary between the municipalities of Piopolis and Marston;
• eastward, collecting the discharge from lac McKenzie (Marston) (coming from the northwest), to route 263;
• eastward, up to its confluence.^[1]

The Victoria River flows onto the west shore of Victoria Bay of lake Mégantic in the municipality of Marston.^[2] This confluence is located southeast of the center of the village of Marsboro, southeast of downtown Lac-Mégantic and north of the village of Piopolis. A bridge has been built near the confluence of the Victoria River, at the foot of the "Côte du Bois", between the hamlets of Vieux - Piopolis and Marsboro.

Toponymy

The toponym of this watercourse was attributed around the middle of the XIXth in honor of Queen Victoria, whose reign extended from 1837 to 1901.^[3]

The toponym "Rivière Victoria" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.^[4]

See also

• List of rivers of Quebec

Notes and References

1. Web site: Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, the database and the site instrumentation. 2021-01-06.
2. http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=65825 Commission de toponymie du Québec, Banque de noms de lieux - Fiche Marston
3. Source: "Names and Places du Québec", work by the Commission de toponymie du Québec, published in 1994 and 1996 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=65825 - Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "rivière Victoria"