Franchère Lake
{{Short description|Fresh water body in Quebec, Canada}}
{{Other uses|Franchère (disambiguation){{!}}Franchère}}
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| location = Lac-Jacques-Cartier (TNO), La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
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| lake_type = Natural
| inflow =Rivière aux Écorces du Milieu, discharge of lac Ballon.
| outflow = Rivière aux Écorces du Milieu
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The Franchère Lake (French: Lac Franchère) is a fresh water body located in the head zone of the rivière aux Écorces du Milieu, in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, Canada. Lac Franchère is part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.
The area around the lake is served by secondary forest roads for forestry and recreational tourism activities.[https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=lac_Franchère Open Street Map - Accessed December 27, 2019] Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second.
The surface of Lac Franchère is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally done from mid-December to mid-March.
Geography
The main watersheds near Lac Franchère are:
- north side: rivière aux Écorces North-East, Delphis stream;
- east side: Honorine River, Jacques-Cartier River;
- south side: rivière aux Écorces du Milieu, rivière aux Écorces;
- west side: rivière aux Écorces du Milieu, Kane stream.
Lac Franchère has a length of {{convert|2.7|km}}, a width of {{convert|0.9|km}} and an altitude of {{convert|803|m}}. This lake is mainly supplied by the outlet of Lac Ballon, as well as the outlet of Lakes Day and Germain. The mouth of Lac Franchère is located at:
- {{convert|16.5|km}} north-east of the confluence of the rivière aux Écorces du Milieu and the rivière aux Écorces;
- {{convert|66.7|km}} south-east of the mouth of the Pikauba River (confluence with the Kenogami Lake);
- {{convert|18.9|km}} north-west of Jacques-Cartier Lake.{{cite web|url=http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html| title = Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, the database and the instrumentation of the site| date = 12 September 2016|access-date= December 27, 2019}}
From the mouth of Lac Franchère, the current follows the course of:
- the rivière aux Écorces du Milieu on {{convert|24.7|km}} generally towards the southwest;
- the rivière aux Écorces on {{convert|98.5|km}} generally towards the northeast;
- the Pikauba River on {{convert|35.0|km}} generally towards the northeast;
- the Kenogami Lake on {{convert|17.6|km}} towards the northeast to barrage de Portage-des-Roches;
- the Chicoutimi River on {{convert|26.2|km}} to the east, then the northeast;
- the Saguenay River on {{convert|114.6|km}} eastward to Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence estuary.
Toponymy
The toponym Lac Franchère was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.{{cite web|url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=23685|website=Commission de toponymie du Québec|title=Lac Franchère|access-date=December 28, 2019}}
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