The Chesham River is a tributary of the rivière au Saumon, in the administrative region of

Estrie Estrie () is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Angl ...

, in the

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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 ...

, in

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. This river flows successively in the municipalities of: *MRC

Le Granit Regional County Municipality Le Granit (''Granite'') is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of eastern Quebec, Canada. Located directly south of Quebec City, it borders the region of Chaudière-Appalaches, as well as the US states of New Hampshire and Maine. ...

: in the township of Chesham in municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Bois; *MRC

Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality Le Haut-Saint-François (; ''The Upper Saint-François t. Francis'' is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada in the Estrie region. Its seat is in Cookshire-Eaton, and it is named for the Saint-François River which runs ...

: in the township of Ditton La Patrie. Forestry is the main economic activity in this. valley The surface of the Chesham River is usually frozen from mid-December to mid-March, except the rapids areas; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally from late December to early March.

Geography

The hydrographic slopes near the "Chesham River" are: * north side:

Saint-François River The Saint-François River is a right tributary of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its source is Lake Saint-François in Chaudière-Appalaches, southeast of Thetford Mines. It flows southwest towards Sherbrooke, where it changes cours ...

Rouge River (rivière au Saumon) The Rivière Rouge is a tributary of the rivière au Saumon. This river flows in the municipalities of Milan (MRC Le Granit Regional County Municipality) and Lingwick (MRC) Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality), in the administra ...

; * east side: Victoria River,

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Bergeron River The Bergeron river (''in French: rivière Bergeron'') is a tributary on the south shore of Lake Mégantic which flows into the Chaudière River; the latter flows northward to empty on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Bergeron rive ...

; * south side: rivière au Saumon, West Branch Magalloway (United States); * west side: rivière au Saumon. The Chesham River originates at the confluence of two mountain streams located on the southern flank of a mountain which is located between

Mégantic Mountain Mégantic can refer to: * Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, a municipality in southeastern Quebec formerly called ''Mégantic'' * Lac-Mégantic derailment, a train derailment that occurred 6 July 2013 * Lac Mégantic, a lake in southeastern Quebec * Mont Mé ...

(located on the west side) and Sommet Valence (located on the east side). From its source, the Chesham River flows on on the south side of

Mont-Mégantic National Park Mont-Mégantic National Park ''(Parc national du Mont-Mégantic)'' is a provincial park in Quebec, Canada. It is located near the municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Bois in the Estrie region. The park was created in 1994 and is adjacent to the Sa ...

, divided into the following segments: * westwards, up to its confluence with a stream (coming from the northeast); * southwards, up to the confluence with the Fromagerie stream (coming from the north-west); * south-west, up to the confluence (located at north-west of the road intersection in the heart of the village of Notre-Dame-des-Bois) with the Pont Rouge stream; * to the southwest, crossing route 212, to the confluence of Deloge stream; * south-west, to its mouth. The Chesman River flows on the northeast bank of the rivière au Saumon. Its mouth is located upstream of the mouth of the

Ditton River The Rivière Ditton is a tributary of the rivière au Saumon. This river flows in the municipalities of Chartierville and La Patrie, in the Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie, in the prov ...

, south of the summit of Black Mountain and south of the summit of Mont Notre-Dame.

Toponymy

The term "Chesham" refers to a town in the Chilterns, in

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, in

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. The toponym "Chesham River" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according ...

.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of Place Names - Toponym: "Rivière Chesham"
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Notes and references

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