Champlain River

For homonymy, see Champlain.
Champlain River
Champlain River in Trois-Rivières (Sector Saint-Louis-de-France)
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Mauricie
Tributaries
 - left Ruisseau Picardie,
ruisseau des Prairies,
Noire River (Champlain River),
rivière au Lard,
Brûlée River,
ruisseau Barome,
ruisseau Martin.
 - right Ruisseau des Plaines,
ruisseau de la Racine Salée,
cours d'eau Laborde,
cours d'eau Clermont-Leblanc,
cours d'eau Grandmont-Pintal,
ruisseau de Rouille,
ruisseau Pronovost,
cours d'eau Normandin,
ruisseau Beaudoin.
Source Brook
 - location Saint-Maurice, Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality
 - elevation 59 m (194 ft)
 - coordinates 46°26′49″N 72°16′52″W / 46.44694°N 72.28111°W / 46.44694; -72.28111
Mouth St Lawrence River
 - location Champlain, Mauricie administrative region
 - elevation 5 m (16 ft)
 - coordinates 46°26′49″N 72°16′55″W / 46.44694°N 72.28194°W / 46.44694; -72.28194Coordinates: 46°26′49″N 72°16′55″W / 46.44694°N 72.28194°W / 46.44694; -72.28194
Length 66.7 km (41 mi)

The Champlain River is 66.7 km long flowing on the north shore of St. Lawrence river. This river flows between Saint-Maurice River and the Batiscan River watershed, in Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada.

Geography

Champlain River is flowing almost at the boundary between the manors of Batiscan and Champlain. Champlain river flows from north to south to empty in the St. Lawrence river at Champlain village. Champlain River rises at an altitude of about 130 meters[1] in wetlands located at the foot of the moraine of Saint-Narcisse.[2] Its watershed through the municipalities of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Trois-Rivières (Saint-Louis-de-France area), Saint-Maurice, Saint-Narcisse, Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Batiscan and Champlain, all located, with the exception of Trois-Rivières, in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality.

Champlain river divides into four distinct branches that connect to the main branch.[2] It is characterized by the presence of several meanders, a number of which are abandoned along the river near its mouth.[3] The geographical coordinates of the mouth of the river are: -72.28194 West, 46.44695 North.

The watershed of the river Champlain is divided into five sub-basins, sub-basins upstream of the four branches of the main section, from west to east, the sub-basins of rivers Champlain (upstream) of burned with bacon and fork, and the sub-basin of the downstream portion of the Champlain River which flows in the four branches.[4] The slope varies from 5.0 m/km in the sub-basin of the "rivière Brulée" (Burned River) to 0.7 m/km in the sub-basin of the river downstream of the Champlain portion.

Landslides

The banks of the Champlain River are composed of marine clays, a variety that is very unstable compared to other types of clay, favoring landslides when water accumulates in the clay soil.[5]

History of landslides in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes]:

A major landslide occurred on the night of November 9 to 10, 2016, on a lot of land belonging to Luc Normandin, in the Saint-Joseph-Ouest range, within the limits of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. The field started to move around 9.30 pm on November 9. The slip site is approximately one kilometer from the 1986 slip site, which was twice as large as the one in 2016.

The slip stopped at about ten meters from the house of Luc Normandin and its barn sheltering about sixty cattles. This natural disaster generated a large crater of the size of a baseball field, about 160 meters wide and a depth of between 2 and 10 meters, between farm buildings and the edge of the Champlain River.

Thousands of tons of clay and earth slipped into the river bed completely blocking the flow of water over several tens of meters. The water has risen to make its way again.

Two houses were evacuated and a 200 meter security perimeter was established around the crater.[7] [8]

Toponymy

Samuel de Champlain gave its name to this river. It is reported for the first time on the map in 1613 by Samuel de Champlain, shifted back to his card in 1632. This name, Champlain, was then given to the lordship (1664), the catholic parish (1665), the provincial county (1829), the municipality (1845) and the Federal county (1867).[9]

The toponym "Champlain River" was officialized in the registry of places name at the Commission de toponymie du Québec as of December 5, 1968.

History

In 1863, Stanislas Drapeau Champlain wrote that "Champlain river has enough water power in order to activate flour mills and saws, and the large tannery of Mr. Richardson, living in Quebec".[10]

About 1800, Mathew Bell built a mill having 32 saws. Burned in 1850, it was replaced by a saw mill counting 20 saws and a tannery belonging to L. Osborne Richardson. The tannery was moved to the Eastern Townships in 1875.[11]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ William Tellier, Mylène Valley, Isabelle Lavoie and Stéphane Campeau,Portrait du bassin versant de la rivière Champlain, Rapport déposé au Comité ZIP les Deux-Rive (Portrait of the watershed of the river Champlain, report tabled by Deux-Rives ZIP Committee). Trois-Rivières, Section of Geography, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, page 18. (French)
  2. 1 2 William Tellier, Mylène Valley, Isabelle Lavoie and Stéphane Campeau, Portrait du bassin versant de la rivière Champlain, Rapport déposé au Comité ZIP les Deux-Rive (Portrait of the watershed of the river Champlain, report tabled by Deux-Rives ZIP Committee). Trois-Rivières, Section of Geography, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, page 9. (French)
  3. ↑ Jean-Pierre Chartier, "Les caprices d'une rivière" (The vagaries of a river) Le Postillon de Champlain (The Postilion of Champlain), Champlain, Champlain Historical Society, vol. 25, No. 2, March 2005, pp. 10-18 (first part), vol. 26, No. 1, December 2005, pp. 4-11 (second part); flight. 26, No. 2, April 2006, pp. 3-7 (third party); flight. 27, No. 1, December 2006, pp. 14-19 (Part Four) flight. 29, No. 2, April 2009, pp. 8-12 (fifth and last part). (French)
  4. ↑ William Tellier, Mylène Valley, Isabelle Lavoie and Stéphane Campeau, Portrait du bassin versant de la rivière Champlain, Rapport déposé au Comité ZIP les Deux-Rives (Basin side portrait of the Champlain River, Report submitted to the ZIP Committee Deux-Rives). Trois-Rivières, Section of Geography, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, page 11. (French)
  5. ↑ Research of "Société d'aménagement et de mise en valeur du bassin de la Batiscan".
  6. ↑ (municipality) (accessed 11 November 2016)
  7. ↑ Paule Vermot-Desroches, journalist, newspaper Le Nouvelliste, November 10, 2016
  8. ↑ Amélie St-Yves, journalist, Journal de Montréal, November 11, 2016, page 9, article "Le terrain s'effondre à sa porte" (The ground collapses at its door).
  9. ↑ René Beaudoin, "375e anniversaire du nom de Champlain" (375th anniversary of Champlain's name), The Postilion de Champlain, Champlain, Champlain historical Society, vol. 27, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 13-16. (French)
  10. ↑ Stanislas Drapeau, Études sur les développements de la colonisation du Bas-Canada depuis dix ans (1851 à 1861) (Studies on the development of the colonization of Lower Canada for ten years (1851-1861)), Quebec, Typography Leger Brousseau, 1863, p. 465. (French)
  11. ↑ René Beaudoin, "Les moulins à scie et la tannerie de la rivière Champlain" (The saw mills and tanneries of Champlain river), Le Postillon de Champlain (The Postilion of Champlain), Champlain, Champlain Historical Society , vol. 27, No. 2, April 2007, p. 21 (French)

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