The Batiscan Lake is located in Upper Batiscanie and is the limit of unorganized territories of Lac-Blanc (White Lake) and Lac-Croche . This territory is related to the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality , in the administrative region of the Capitale-Nationale , in the province of Quebec , Canada .
31-626: Shape while length (6.35 km by 0.5 km at the widest in the East-West direction), the Batiscan lake marks the southwestern boundary of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the northeastern boundary of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche . Shaped in length, in the East-West direction, the size of the lake is 6.35 km by 0.5 km at the widest. The Batiscan Lake mark the southwest boundary of
62-613: Is a wildlife reserve in Quebec , Canada , located between Quebec City and the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. This reserve is part of the network of wildlife reserves of Quebec ( Canada ) managed by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Quebec) and the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec . It is located halfway between Saguenay and Quebec . The territory of
93-544: Is included in the Laurentian Mountains range, and more particularly the Jacques-Cartier Massif . It is essentially mountainous territory, the highest peak of which, Mount Belle Fontaine , culminates at 1151 m. The 7,861 kilometres (4,884.60 mi) wildlife reserve is located in the regions of Capitale-Nationale , Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Mauricie . It shares its limits with the zec Mars-Moulin to
124-464: Is the Camp Mercier reception center with 19 cabins. You can practice fishing, small and big game hunting, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling depending on the season on the provincial snowmobile trail only. The reserve, often called "the park" by locals, is split in half by route 175 , linking the cities of Quebec and Saguenay . Route 169 leads to Hebertville , the main entrance to
155-557: Is the major mafic intrusion present in the area. These rocks comprise the Grenville Province of southern Quebec. It consists of fragments of island arcs and continental crust accreted to the south-eastern edge of Precambrian North American, Laurentia . Lac Saint-Jean lies within a elongated rift valley that is known as the Lac Saint-Jean Lowlands . These lowlands are an elongated flat-bottomed basin formed by
186-525: The Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve . Parc des Laurentides is part of the boreal forest. There are mainly firs, spruces and white birches. The bioclimatic domain varies according to altitude, from balsam fir to yellow birch further south, going up to certain places to black spruce-cladonia on certain dry summits. Insects, mammals, birds and fish live together in Réserve faunique des Laurentides. In
217-482: The Lac St-Jean area. The route 175 , named Boulevard Talbot in honor of Antonio Talbot , Member of Parliament for Chicoutimi and Minister of Roads under Maurice Duplessis , crosses the wildlife reserve between the city of Quebec , on the one hand, and the cities of Saguenay and Hébertville , on the other hand. It is a road which had, depending on the sector, one or two lanes in each direction. Significant work
248-745: The Laurentian Highlands . It is situated 206 km (128 mi) north of the Saint Lawrence River , into which it drains via the Saguenay River . It covers an area of 1,053 km (407 sq mi), and is 63.1 m (207 ft) at its deepest point. Its name in the Innu language is Piekuakamu . The lake is fed by dozens of small rivers, including the Ashuapmushuan , the Mistassini ,
279-630: The Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the northeastern boundary of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche . Fueled mainly by the Croche River (La Tuque) coming from northeast, Batiscan lake drains into the Lightning River which joins 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the west, the Batiscan River . The Croche River (La Tuque) is powered by the Lac Croche. The Moïse River , coming from the north, flows into
310-474: The Lightning River just at the mouth of Lake Batiscan. The Moïse River is powered by Moïse Lake which in turn is fed by three smaller rivers. The Moïse Lake marks the boundary of the southwest boundary of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the north boundary of the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche . In 1873, the Surveyor Pascal Dumais Horace wrote that the heights of the lake, you could see
341-667: The Peribonka , the Des Aulnaies , the Métabetchouane , and the Ouiatchouane . The towns on its shores include Alma , Dolbeau-Mistassini , Roberval , Normandin , and Saint-Félicien . Three Regional County Municipalities lie on its shores: Lac-Saint-Jean-Est , Le Domaine-du-Roy , and Maria-Chapdelaine . The lake was named Piekuakami by the Innu , the Indigenous people who occupied
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#1733092802701372-577: The Saguenay Graben by the displacement of Grenville crystalline rocks . This basin is 250 km (160 mi) long and 50 km (31 mi) wide. This basin is bounded by normal faults running parallel to its length. It extends from just west of Lac Saint-Jean along the Saguenay River to the Saint Lawrence Valley where is it truncated by St. Lawrence rift system. Preserved within
403-549: The Transports Québec specializing in the extrication of vehicles involved in accidents in the wildlife reserve), an ambulance vehicle and a CTAQ barracks. In July 1952, a Pinetree Line radar station was established at Mont Apica , in the center of the reserve, as part of the establishment of a line of defense of North America against bombers from the Soviet Union. The radar station was officially closed in 1993. In 1981,
434-465: The "road of Quebec" allows from 1881 to connect Hébertville to Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec in 40 hours. A branch to Chicoutimi was built in 1882. The reserve was created in 1895 under the name of "Parc des Laurentides". In 1944 and 1945, survey work enabled the current road to be put in place, the route 175 , inaugurated in 1948. The park being of limited access, there were barriers at the three entrances to
465-593: The 1940s, during World War II, Lac Saint-Jean, along with various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay , Saint Helen's Island and Hull, Quebec , had prisoner-of-war camps . Lac Saint-Jean's was numbered and remained unnamed just like most of Canada's other war prisons. The prisoners of war ( POWs ) were classified into categories including their nationality and civilian or military status. By 1942 this region had two camps with at least 50 POWs. Prisoners worked
496-459: The Saguenay Graben being oriented more or less parallel to the glacial flow, became a preferred path for ice flow and resulted in deep excavation of the bedrock.The glaciers cut into the graben and widened it in some places as well as making it considerable deeper in others. At the time of retreat of the last ice sheet, the region had been depressed below contemporaneous sea level. As a result, as
527-400: The area at the time of European arrival. It was given its French name after Jean de Quen , a Jesuit missionary who in 1647 was the first European to reach its shores. Industry on the lake was dominated by the fur trade until the 19th century. Colonization began in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region in the early 19th century and continued intensively until the early 20th century. Industry
558-488: The deposition and the accumulation of Quaternary deposits ( sand , gravel , silt , and clay ), which can reach up to 180 m (590 ft) in thickness beneath the central lowlands. The Quaternary sediments include glacial , marine , glaciofluvial sediments and post-glacial alluvial and delta plain sediments. The area was covered by ice sheets several times throughout the Pleistocene . The valley formed by
589-418: The down-faulted interior of the Saguenay Graben are two large eroded, isolated patches, known as outliers , of Paleozoic , Middle Ordovician , sedimentary rock composed of limestones and shales overlying Precambrian basement . The Lac-Saint-Jean outlier rests against the south wall of the graben south of Lac Saint-Jean and extends to the west of the lake. The Chicoutimi (Saguenay) outlier rests against
620-602: The east, while the remaining territory was established as a wildlife reserve. The Jesuit trail , the first road to cross the sector, was cleared in 1676 and linked Quebec to lac Saint-Jean in three days via Saint-Charles Lake , the valley of the Jacques-Cartier River to Jacques-Cartier Lake , the Pikauba River , the rivière aux Écorces and the Métabetchouane River . The first more or less passable road,
651-496: The land, including lumbering and assisting in the production of pulp and paper . The bedrock of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region consists largely of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks. They are mostly composed of high-grade metamorphic rocks, amphibolite to granulite gneiss , that are intruded by anorthosite , mangerite , charnockite , and granite plutonic rocks. The Lac Saint-Jean anorthosite
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#1733092802701682-567: The middle of the Réserve faunique des Laurentides, on the shores of Jacques-Cartier Lake , we find L'Étape , a busy rest area where you can eat and do refueling. This stopover is the only one between Stoneham and Hébertville ( Lac-Saint-Jean ) or Saguenay . Nearby, there is a rescue patrol station ( extrication clamps ) as well as an ambulance station. There is also the La Loutre reception center with its chalets and several camping pitches with or without services. Further south, exactly at km 94,
713-575: The mountain range west of the Saint-Maurice River , the whole area of Lac-Édouard, Quebec , the valley of the Bostonnais River and that of the Métabetchouane . The name "Batiscan Lake" was officially registered at the Commission de toponymie du Québec , as of December 5, 1968. The name "Batiscan Lake" is sometimes confused in the use of the place name "Petit Lac Batiscan", which is located in
744-594: The municipality of Saint-Raymond . Batiscan lake is considered the second head of the river of the same name, especially through the Moïse River (Quebec) and other rivers that feed it. French place names in Canada, it is natural to associate the name for a lake head and toponym discharge. MRC and municipalities : Download coordinates as: Laurentides Wildlife Reserve Réserve faunique des Laurentides ( transl. Laurentides Wildlife Reserve ), also known by its former name of parc des Laurentides ,
775-453: The north wall of the graben and extends southward to a few kilometers from the Saguenay River north of Chicoutimi. These Middle Ordovician sedimentary rocks consist of sandstones , micritic limestones and highly fossiliferous , alternating beds of limestones and shales. These rocks have been preferentially eroded by repeated glaciations exhuming the Saguenay Graben. The Saguenay Graben that undelies Lac Saint-Jean Lowlands has controlled
806-543: The northeast, the zec des Martres and the Grands-Jardins National Park to the east, the Jacques-Cartier National Park to the south, the zec Batiscan-Neilson to the west, the Zec de la Rivière-Blanche to the west and the zec Kiskissink to the north-west. The reserve also encloses the ecological reserves Thomas-Fortin and Victor-A.-Huard . A part to the east of the reserve is part of
837-433: The reserve (7,861 square kilometres (3,035 sq mi)) has over 2000 lakes and many summits of over 1000 meters. The reserve is known by outdoor enthusiasts for hunting and fishing. Parc des Laurentides was created in 1895 as a forest reserve and as a recreational area for the public. In 1981, two large parcels were split off to become Jacques-Cartier National Park in the south and the Grands-Jardins National Park in
868-514: The reserve was cut from two portions of its territory at its southern border and its eastern border to allow the creation, respectively, of Jacques-Cartier National Park and Grands-Jardins National Park . The traditional practice of moose hunting among Native communities is the cause of disputes between the Hurons-Wendat and the Montagnais of Mashteuiatsh . As its name suggests, the reserve
899-528: The road to check the comings and goings. These barriers will be removed in 1977. At the center of the route, there is a rest area called L'Étape , located on the shores of Jacques-Cartier Lake , and the Provincial Police . After a fire, they will be demolished in 2005. In 2009, there is an old chapel, several chalets, a reconstructed franchise restaurant, the Patrouille Secours post (a special unit of
930-503: Was mainly forestry and agriculture. In the 20th century, pulp and paper mills and aluminum smelting rose to importance, encouraged by hydroelectric dams at Alma and on the Péribonka River. Lac Saint-Jean also has an important summer resort and sport-fishing industry. The area is featured in the classic French-language novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon published in 1914 and subsequently translated into twenty languages. In
961-479: Was undertaken in 2006 and was completed in 2012, the road now has two lanes in each direction. The year 2020 will be the 125th anniversary of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve. On this occasion, historian Marc Vallières will publish a book. Lac Saint-Jean Lac Saint-Jean ( Canadian French: [lak sẽ ʒã] ) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec , Canada, in