Abbé Huard River ( French : Rivière de l'Abbé-Huard ) is a river in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is a tributary of the Romaine River . The lower part of the river, where it meandered through sand and gravel deposits, has been flooded by the Romaine-2 reservoir.
11-659: The Abbé-Huard River, a tributary of the Romaine River, originates in Abbé Huard Lake . The lake is in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jérôme in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. It is a little more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the municipality of Baie-Johan-Beetz on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence . The river is the second northeast branch of the Romaine River. The mouth of
22-448: A family that also visits Abbé-Huard River and Nuhetihk Lake. They stayed for three months, mostly trapping beaver and marten from camp 140. A 2018 report said that Abbé Huard Lake is used by the indigenous people of the region every two or three years. For example, in August 2016 two Innu users spent five days on the lake fishing for brook trout. They traveled there by float plane provided by
33-529: Is a little more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the municipality of Baie-Johan-Beetz on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence . It is the source of the Abbé-Huard River, a tributary of the Romaine River. The river is the second northeast branch of the Romaine River. The lake is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the Romaine 3 Reservoir. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows
44-462: The Innu Aitun committee, stayed in a family camp built in the fall of 2015, and used a paddle boat for trips on the lake. In September 2016 the two Innu spent a week on the lake hunting for moose, caribou, partridge and beaver, and fishing for brook trout. The took four beavers but no deer. As before they flew in and stayed at the family camp. The informant did not notice any changes to the region around
55-587: The Province of Quebec (1914), Eugène Rouillard points out the lake was probably named after the Abbé Huard before the river. The Innu call the river Uauiekamau Hipu , or "Round Lake River". The Naskapi call the river Umuauk Shipu or "Loon River", a literal translation of the French Rivière Huard . A 2007 report stated that Abbé-Huard Lake (Uauiekamas) had last been visited in fall about ten years ago by
66-402: The Province of Quebec (1914), Eugène Rouillard points out the lake was probably named after the Abbé Huard before the river. The Innu call the river Uauiekamau Hipu , or "Round Lake River". The Naskapi call the river Umuauk Shipu or "Loon River", a literal translation of the French Rivière Huard . The river basin covers 1,025 square kilometres (396 sq mi). The river flows along
77-523: The contact zone between rocks of the Anorthositic Suite of Havre-Saint-Pierre to the north, and deformed rocks to the south. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river on the border between sub-regions 6j-S and 6n-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. The lower part of the Abbé-Huard River now forms the northeast arm of the Romaine-2 reservoir. Before the Romaine-2 reservoir was flooded,
88-461: The lake on the border between sub-regions 6j-S and 6n-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Abbé Huard Lake is named after the abbé Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853–1929), a naturalist and a professor at the Chicoutimi Seminary. He visited the region between Pessamit and Natashquan in 1895, and described the trip in his Labrador et Anticosti (1897). In his Dictionary of Rivers and Lakes of
99-667: The mouth of the river flowed between terraces of sand and gravel. These banks typically rose from 3 to 5 metres (9.8 to 16.4 ft) above the watercourse. About 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of the river's banks were subject to active erosion, mostly on the concave shores. There was a well-developed delta at the river mouth. Water temperatures at the mouth of the river where it entered the Romaine ranged from an average of 0 °C (32 °F) in January to 15.7 °C (60.3 °F) in July. The flooded section
110-556: The river, where it meets the Romaine River, is also in Lac-Jérôme. Before the river was flooded, the Abbé-Huard entered the Romaine at PK 131. Abbé Huard Lake is named after the abbé Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853–1929), a naturalist and a professor at the Chicoutimi Seminary. He visited the region between Pessamit and Natashquan in 1895, and described the trip in his Labrador et Anticosti (1897). In his Dictionary of Rivers and Lakes of
121-609: Was thought to have high archaeological potential, but a survey found no sites. Abb%C3%A9 Huard Lake Abbé Huard Lake ( French : Lac de l' Abbé Huard ) is a small lake in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is drained by the Abbé Huard River , a tributary of the Romaine River . Abbé Huard Lake is in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jérôme in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. The lake
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