• Source: Saint-Jean River (Saguenay River tributary)

The Saint-Jean river" target="_blank">River (St. John river" target="_blank">River) is a river" target="_blank">river crossing the municipalities of Rivière-Éternité and L'Anse-Saint-Jean in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada.
The upper portion of the Saint John river" target="_blank">River is integrated into Zec du Lac-Brébeuf, a controlled harvesting zone (ZEC).
The Saint-Jean river" target="_blank">River is served primarily by route 170 (east-west), which passes through the hamlets "Le Ruisseau-du-Portage" and "La Chute-à-Salum". Some other secondary forest roads serve the lake area mainly for forestry and recreational tourism purposes.
Forestry is the main economic activity of the sector; recreational tourism activities, second.
The surface of the Saint John river" target="_blank">River is usually frozen from late November to early April (except in rapids areas), however, safe ice movement is generally from mid-December to late March.




Geography


Three watersheds drain the territory of Zec du Lac-Brebeuf, which are the Saint-Jean rivers and its tributaries, Cami and Catin.
The Saint John river" target="_blank">River rises at the mouth of Brébeuf Lake. This lake has a length of 12.5 km (7.8 mi) divided into three parts, a maximum width of 1.4 km (0.87 mi), an altitude of 226 m (741 ft) and an area of .
The mouth of the lake is located in a small bay on the east side of the lake, at:

4.7 km (2.9 mi) south of Éternity Lake;
14.2 km (8.8 mi) south-east of the village center of Saint-Félix-d'Otis;
21.0 km (13.0 mi) southeast of a bay of the Saguenay river" target="_blank">River;
23.8 km (14.8 mi) northeast of Lake Ha! Ha!;
27.4 km (17.0 mi) southeast of the confluence of the Saint John river" target="_blank">River and the Saguenay river" target="_blank">River;
47.7 km (29.6 mi) south-east of downtown Saguenay (city);
61.3 km (38.1 mi) south-west of downtown Tadoussac.
The course of the Saint John river" target="_blank">River flows over 38.8 km (24.1 mi) generally to the northeast, according to the following segments:

1.1 km (0.68 mi) northeasterly in a marsh zone to the confluence (coming from the south) of the rivière à la Catin;
11.7 km (7.3 mi) north-east crossing series of rapids and forming a hook to the north, until bras à Pierre (coming from the south);
4.7 km (2.9 mi) north-east to the outlet (coming from the west) of Emmuraillé Lake, near the hamlet "La Vallée-d'Amont";
8.2 km (5.1 mi) northeasterly to the stream at Denis;
1.0 km (0.62 mi) north to Girard Brook (coming from the west);
3.6 km (2.2 mi) easterly forming a W at the end of the segment, to the brook of Portage (coming from the south), located in the village of "Le Ruisseau-du-Portage";
8.5 km (5.3 mi) northerly forming a northwesterly loop to the village of "Ruisseau-à-Venant", crossing several sets of rapids and forming three loops to the west, then forming a last great loop eastward to the village of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, to its mouth.
The mouth of the Saint John river" target="_blank">River flows to the bottom of Anse Saint-Jean in the village of L'Anse-Saint-Jean on the south shore of the Saguenay river" target="_blank">River . This mouth is located at:

4.4 km (2.7 mi) east of the summit (altitude: 570 m (1,870 ft)) of the Orange Mountain;
5.4 km (3.4 mi) south of the north shore of the Saguenay river" target="_blank">River (at the level of Portage Cove);
6.1 km (3.8 mi) north of the village center of "Le Ruisseau-du-Portage";
38 km (24 mi) west of Tadoussac;
67.8 km (42.1 mi) east of Saguenay (city).
From the mouth of the Saint John river" target="_blank">River, the current flows through Anse Saint-Jean to 2.9 km (1.8 mi) northerly, then down the Saguenay river" target="_blank">River on 42.8 km (26.6 mi) to the east where flows into the St. Lawrence river" target="_blank">River at Tadoussac.




Toponymy


The toponym "Rivière Saint-Jean" appears as early as 1731 in Louis Aubert's Journal de Lachesnaye (transcript of Serge Goudreau). His writing appears in the form of "Riviere de l'anse S[ain]t Jean" and "Riviere S[ain]t Jean": "I entered the river" target="_blank">river of the ance S[ain]t Jean ["St jean" in the manuscript] in the favor of the high pond /.../ When entering the river" target="_blank">river S[ain]t Jean ["St jean" in the manuscript], I made /.../" [25 August 1731]. The toponym "Rivière St-Jean" appears in the 1893 report of land surveyor William Tremblay.
The toponym "Saint-Jean river" target="_blank">River" (Saguenay) was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.




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= Related Articles

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Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality
Rivière-Éternité, a municipality
L'Anse-Saint-Jean, a municipality
Zec du Lac-Brébeuf, a controlled harvesting zone (zec)
Brébeuf Lake
Cami river" target="_blank">River, a watercourse
Rivière à la Catin, a watercourse
Bras à Pierre, a watercourse
Saint-Jean Bay, a bay
List of rivers of Quebec




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