Rivière du Loup (Bas-Saint-Laurent)
The Rivière du Loup is a river in eastern Quebec, Canada, which empties on the south shore of Saint Lawrence River at the city of Rivière-du-Loup. She throws herself into it in the city of Rivière-du-Loup which is part of regional county municipality (RCM) Rivière-du-Loup, in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, in Quebec, in Canada.
There is a hydroelectric plant on the river near the city.
The "Rivière du Loup" flows in regional county municipalities of:
Geography
The "rivière du Loup" (English: "river of the Wolf") has its source in "Lac Saint-Pierre" in the "canton of Painchaud", within Notre Dame Mountains, the Zone d'exploitation contrôlée (English: Controlled Harvesting Zone) of Zec Chapais in the regional county municipality (RCM) Kamouraska. This lake is located 36.5 km east of the southeast coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 20.1 km southeast of the village center of Saint-Bruno-of-Kamouraska and 19.4 kilometers south-west of the village center of Saint-Athanase. The "rivière du Loup" flows to the North over 101.3 kilometers.
Rivière-du-Loup railway station
Rivière-du-Loup railway station is located on Rue Lafontaine in the small city of Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada. The station is staffed and offers limited wheelchair accessibility. Rivière-du-Loup is served by Via Rail's Ocean and Montreal – Gaspé train. Both trains share the same rail line between Montreal and Matapédia.
External links
Media related to Rivière-du-Loup train station at Wikimedia Commons
Rivière-du-Loup
Rivière-du-Loup (2011 population 19,447) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska.
History
The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means Wolf's River in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as loup-marin (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.
Rivière-du-Loup was originally established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of Fraserville, in honour of early English settler Alexandre Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919.
Between 1850 and 1919, the city saw large increases in its anglophone population. Most of them left the region by the 1950s. 1% of the population still speaks English as its first language.
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