Rivière au Pin (Bécancour River tributary)

The rivière au Pin (in English: Pine River) is a tributary of the Bécancour River which is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec, in Canada.

Rivière au Pin
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
RegionCentre-du-Quebec, Chaudière-Appalaches
MRCArthabaska Regional County Municipality, Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality
Physical characteristics
SourceSunday Lake
  locationSaints-Martyrs-Canadiens
  coordinates45.89499°N 71.483005°W / 45.89499; -71.483005
  elevation368 m (1,207 ft)
MouthBécancour River
  location
Irlande
  coordinates
46.05833°N 71.47556°W / 46.05833; -71.47556
  elevation
194 m (636 ft)
Length31.0 km (19.3 mi)
Basin features
ProgressionBécancour River, St. Lawrence River
Tributaries 
  left(upstream) ruisseau Simon, ruisseau Kerwin, ruisseau Amadon, Blanche River (rivière au Pin tributary)
  right(upstream) ruisseau Vimy, décharge du lac de l'Est

The Pin River flows successively, in the MRC of:

Geography

The main neighboring watersheds of the rivière au Pin are:

The rivière au Pin has its source at Sunday Lake (length: 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi); altitude: 367 metres (1,204 ft)) in the municipality of Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens. This lake is located north of Mont Louise (Arthabaska), northeast of the village of Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, north of route 161 and south of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown.

From Sunday Lake, the Pin River flows on 31.0 kilometres (19.3 mi) divided into the following segments:

Upper course of the Pin River (segment of 12.7 kilometres (7.9 mi))

Mud Pond; marsh crossed by the Pine River between Lac Breeches and Petit Lac Long.

Lower course of the Pin River (segment of 183 kilometres (114 mi))

From this municipal limit, the Rivière au Pin flows over:

  • 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) north to a road bridge;
  • 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) northward, to the confluence of Vimy Creek (coming from the north);
  • 4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi) westward, up to the confluence of the Blanche River (coming from the west);
  • 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) northward, up to the municipal boundary between Saint-Julien and Irlande;
  • 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) north to the road;
  • 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) (or 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) in a direct line) towards the north, winding in a marsh area, until its confluence.[1]

The Rivière au Pin flows into a bend in the river on the south bank of the Bécancour River. This confluence is located in a marsh area, at 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) upstream of the Stater Pond (which the Bécancour River partly crosses), at 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) southwest of Cranberry hamlet and 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) east of the summit of Mont Dillon.

Toponymy

Logging, in particular the essence of pine, contributed to the colonization of the region of Appalachians.

The Rivière aux Pins appears on an 1883 cadastral map of the canton of Ireland.[2]

The toponym Rivière au Pin was made official on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[3]

See also

Notes and references

  1. "Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, database and site instrumentation". Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  2. Source: Names and places of Quebec, work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec, published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and under that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
  3. Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: Rivière au Pin.
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