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Portneuf Wildlife Reserve
The Portneuf Wildlife Reserve is located in the province of Quebec (Canada), in the western part of the Capitale-Nationale region. This wildlife reserve is administered by SEPAQ. See also * Island of the Cross (Quebec) * Jeannotte River * Batiscan River * Batiscanie * Municipality of Rivière-à-Pierre * Zec Tawachiche The zec Tawachiche is a ''zone d'exploitation contrôlée'' (controlled harvesting zone) (zec) covering 318 km², of which 310 km² are located in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. ... References External links SEPAQ Official Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Portneuf Wildlife Reserve Protected areas of Capitale-Nationale Wildlife sanctuaries of Canada Protected areas established in 1968 Portneuf Regional County Municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portneuf Regional County Municipality
Portneuf is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Capitale-Nationale administrative region of Quebec, Canada. RCM of Portneuf has been established on January 1, 1982. It is composed of 21 municipalities: nine cities, seven municipalities, two parishes and three unorganized territories. The county seat is located in Cap-Santé. History The Regional County Municipality of Portneuf was constituted as a regional administrative entity on November 25, 1981, by a Provincial decree creating the supralocal Regional County Municipality administration based on the (...) and therefore replacing the previously existing historic Portneuf County Corporation. While the new administrative boundary included most of the communities from its previous historic limits, a few municipalities were merged with bordering entities: St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf, Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec. Those municipalities yet remained within the Electoral Federal Riding of Portn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area and the second-largest by Population of Canada by province and territory, population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois people, Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York (state), New York in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventhList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventhList of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an Algonquin language, AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitale-Nationale
Capitale-Nationale (; en, National Capital region) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,797.45 km2. It reported a total resident population of 729,997 as of the Canada 2016 Census, with Quebec City having 73.7 percent of the total. Prior to January 2000, it was known as the Québec administrative region. Administrative divisions Regional county municipalities Equivalent territory Independent parish municipality * Notre-Dame-des-Anges Native People's Reserve * Wendake Major communities *Baie-Saint-Paul *Boischatel *Donnacona *L'Ancienne-Lorette *La Malbaie * Lac-Beauport * Pont-Rouge *Quebec City (Ville de Québec) *Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures *Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval *Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier *Saint-Raymond * Shannon *Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury School Districts 25 Districts Francophones manage by 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Des établissements De Plein Air Du Québec
The ''Société des établissements de plein air du Québec'' (English: Quebec Outdoor Establishments Company), also known as ''Sépaq'', is the agency of the Government of Quebec that manages parks and wildlife reserves. Sépaq falls under the authority of the Minister of '' Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs'' (Sustainable development, Environment and Parks) and its head office is located in Quebec City. It employs about 3400 people. The total surface area under management by Sépaq as parks or reserves is over . Sépaq is organized into 3 divisions called "networks": # ''Parcs Québec'' - manages 23 provincial parks ("national" parks, as they are called in Quebec) that are officially recognized as protected areas. Parcs Québec works to ensure the protection and preservation of these significant ecosystems, where low-impact activities such as hiking, canoeing and camping are preferred while protecting sensitive zones and keeping environmental impacts to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Of The Cross (Quebec)
The Island of the Cross (Île à la Croix) is located in the middle of the Batiscan River, at the northern edge of the eastern part of the Portneuf Wildlife Reserve, in the area designated "Miguick-Île à la Croix", the unincorporated Lac-Lapeyrère, Quebec territory, Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative area of the Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, Canada. By 1888, near the Miguick River, a quarry of granite began to be exploited, through the construction of the railway connecting the Lower Batiscanie and Upper Batiscanie. Toponymy The French toponym "Ïle-à-la-Croix" was officially recorded December 5, 1968 in the bank of place names at the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Quebec). Formerly, a cross was planted on the island as protection for travellers on the river regularly surreptitiously caused the drowning. The rapids upstream and downstream of the island are deemed dangerous for boats river. The cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannotte River
Jeannotte River is a river that rises in Lac Édouard in the municipality of Lac-Édouard in Haute-Mauricie, agglomerated with the city of La Tuque since 2003, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The head of the Jeannotte River is one of the two emissaries of Lake Edward (outfall located in the southern part of Lake Edward, in of the village while the other envoy, the head of the Batiscan River, is near the village, near the former sanatorium). The Jeannotte River, whose course is , is in the valley of the Batiscanie, Quebec. The upper segment of the path of the Jeannotte River marks the Zec de la Bessonne and Zec Jeannotte, then the river flows through the Zec Jeannotte, incorporated in 1978. Course From "Lac de la grande baie" (Lake of the Great Bay) (adjacent to the southern part of Lake Edward) in Township Bickerdike, the Jeannotte River flows in the north-south direction in the wild and mountainous area near several small lakes (liste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batiscan River
The Batiscan River is located in La Mauricie administrative region, in the Quebec province, Canada. This river flows from Lake Édouard in Mauricie south and west to empty into the St. Lawrence River at Batiscan, Quebec, northeast of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. It passes through the regional county municipalities (RCM) (MRC in French) of La Tuque, Portneuf, Mékinac and Les Chenaux. The river traverses a territory covered mainly by forest from its source to the Saint-Adelphe, Quebec railway bridge; the rest of its course is predominantly agricultural. The Batiscan river valley is designated " Batiscanie, Quebec". Today, this valley is a paradise for camping, vacationing, observations of nature and water activities such as canoeing, kayaking, rafting, pontoon and swimming in designated areas. The Batiscan River is a popular Canadian whitewater kayaking destination, providing numerous class III, IV, and V rapids. Toponymy The river was named in 1602 by Samuel de Champlain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batiscanie
Batiscanie is the watershed of the Batiscan River, located in the center of the province of Quebec, Canada, covering 4690 km² on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. The area covered by Batiscanie is 53% in the administrative région of Mauricie and 47% in the administrative region of the Capitale-Nationale. The territory of the Batiscanie is 87% forest areas (especially in the Middle and Upper Batiscanie) and 7% rivers, lakes and wetlands. The Batiscan River Valley is designated "Batiscanie" in publications of several historians. Agricultural areas occupy a total area of , or 5.5% of the Batiscanie, especially in the south of the territory. In 2010, MAPAQ counted 217 farms in operation in Batiscanie. The sub-basin of the Rivière des Envies (Cravings River) is a growing area of . According to MAPAQ the agricultural land of Batiscanie has an uncultivated area of , because of certain fallow-land lots and some wooded areas, often subject to limitations related to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zec Tawachiche
The zec Tawachiche is a ''zone d'exploitation contrôlée'' (controlled harvesting zone) (zec) covering 318 km², of which 310 km² are located in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This zec is mainly located in the municipality of Lac-aux-Sables and in the non-organized territories of Lac-Masketsi and Lac-Lapeyrère. The zec territory is situated north of Sainte-Thècle and Saint-Tite. Located approximately 80 km north of Trois-Rivières, it is bordered to the east by Portneuf Wildlife Reserve. The main entrance to the zec Tawachiche is located near the mouth of the Tawachiche West River in the Audy Station, 9.1 km from the intersection of the road 153 in the village of Hervey-Jonction, Quebec. The second entry into the territory of the zec is located north of the rivière aux eaux mortes; previously, it was located at the Milieu River. This entry is accessible via the Road 155 and taking the path o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
