Saint-Jean River (Saguenay River tributary)


The Saint-Jean River is a 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 is integrated into Zec du Lac-Brébeuf, a controlled harvesting zone.
The Saint-Jean River is served primarily by route 170, 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 is usually frozen from late November to early April, 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 rises at the mouth of Brébeuf Lake. This lake has a length of divided into three parts, a maximum width of, an altitude of and an area of.
The mouth of the lake is located in a small bay on the east side of the lake, at:
The course of the Saint John River flows over generally to the northeast, according to the following segments:
The mouth of the Saint John 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. This mouth is located at:
From the mouth of the Saint John River, the current flows through Anse Saint-Jean to northerly, then down the Saguenay River on to the east where flows into the St. Lawrence River at Tadoussac.

Toponymy

The toponym "Rivière Saint-Jean" appears as early as 1731 in Louis Aubert's Journal de Lachesnaye. His writing appears in the form of "Riviere de l'anse St Jean" and "Riviere St Jean": "I entered the river of the ance St Jean in the favor of the high pond /.../ When entering the river St Jean , I made /.../" . The toponym "Rivière St-Jean" appears in the 1893 report of land surveyor William Tremblay.
The toponym "Saint-Jean River" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

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