Ouelle River
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Ouelle River (in French: rivière Ouelle) is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This river flows successively in the MRC of:
- L'Islet Regional County Municipality (administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches): municipalities of Sainte-Perpétue, Tourville and Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet;
- Kamouraska Regional County Municipality (administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent): municipalities of Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth, Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant, Saint-Pacôme and Rivière-Ouelle.
The Ouelle River flows through the towns of Saint-Pacôme and Rivière-Ouelle in Québec and enters the Saint Lawrence River to the west of Rivière-Ouelle. There are waterfalls (Template:Langx) close to the village of Saint-Gabriel-de-Kamouraska.
The main shock epicentre of the Charlevoix earthquake of 1663 is believed to have occurred along the Saint Lawrence River between the mouth of the Malbaie River on the north and the mouth of the Ouelle on the south.[1]
Geography
The Ouelle river has its source in the Notre Dame Mountains east of the junction of Rang Terrebonne and the Rang-Terrebonne crossing. This source is located southwest of the village of Sainte-Perpétue, south of the village of Tourville and east of Lake Therrien.[2]
From its source, the Ouelle river flows for approximately Script error: No such module "convert"., divided into the following segments:
Upper part of the Ouelle river
- Script error: No such module "convert". west in Sainte-Perpétue, up to Rang Terrebonne;
- Script error: No such module "convert". northward, to the confluence of the Charlemagne stream (coming from the west);
- Script error: No such module "convert". north-east collecting water from the Gérard-Lévesque stream (coming from the south-east), to route 204, connecting Sainte-Perpétue and Tourville;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north, up to the limit between Sainte-Perpétue and Tourville;
- Script error: No such module "convert". northward, to Rang John, which is located adjacent to the confluence of the Bras de la rivière Ouelle (coming from the west);
Intermediate part of the Ouelle river
- Script error: No such module "convert". north, up to 9th Rang;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north-west, to the limit between Tourville and Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet;
- Script error: No such module "convert". northward in a forest zone, to the limit between Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet and Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north, to the covered bridge of Route de l'Eglise;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north, to the Drapeau Sud road bridge;
- Script error: No such module "convert". towards the northeast, crossing the limit between Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth and Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant, up to the confluence of La Grande Rivière (rivière Ouelle) (coming from south-east);
Lower part of the Ouelle river (segment of Script error: No such module "convert".)
- Script error: No such module "convert". towards the northeast, straddling the intermunicipal limit four times, in the hamlet "Canton-des-Roches", up to the road bridge on Chemin du Village;
- Script error: No such module "convert". northward, forming the intermunicipal boundary between Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant and Saint-Pacôme;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north in Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant, winding up to the road bridge on Boulevard Bégin (route 230) in the village of Saint-Pacôme;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north, to the bridges on highway 20;
- Script error: No such module "convert". north-west, to the road bridge on Chemin du Sud-de-la-Rivière;
- Script error: No such module "convert". (or Script error: No such module "convert". in a direct line) west, winding up to the highway bridge on route 132;
- Script error: No such module "convert". westward, up to its confluence.[2]
The confluence of the river is located Script error: No such module "convert". west of the center of the village of Saint-Pacôme, Script error: No such module "convert". north of the center of the village of La Pocatière and Script error: No such module "convert". north of the confluence of the Saint-Jean River (La Pocatière).[2]
The Ouelle River, which undergoes the tides of the middle St. Lawrence estuary for a short distance from its confluence, is canoeable. The area of its watershed totals Script error: No such module "convert".. Its average flow rate is Script error: No such module "convert"., reaching Script error: No such module "convert". in April.[3]
The main tributaries of the Ouelle river are:
Toponymy
The toponym "R. Hoel" appears on a map designed by Jean Bourdon around 1641. This designation of origin honors Louis Houël, Sieur du Petit-Pré, controller of the saltworks of Brouage, member of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and secretary to the king. Friend and protector of Samuel de Champlain, Houël wintered in Quebec (city) in 1640–1641. He was one of the main instigators of the Récollets coming to New France.[4]
The map drawn up by Jean Deshayes in 1695 bears the modern spelling “rivière Ouelle”.[5]
The toponym “rivière Ouelle” was formalized on December 5, 1968 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[4]
See also
References
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- ↑ Earthquakes of eastern Canada and Adjacent areas 1534-1927 Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ monitoring/graph.asp?NoStation=022704 cehq.gouv.qc.ca Gouvernement du Québec - Hydro monitoring.
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- ↑ 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.
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