Ruisseau Saint-Joseph

River in Estrie, Quebec, Canada

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Ruisseau Saint-Joseph

Ruisseau St-Joseph

Location
Country| Canada
Province| Quebec
Region| Estrie
MRC| Le Granit Regional County Municipality
Physical characteristics
Source| Mountain streams
• location| Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn
• coordinates| 45°27′59″N 71°00′47″W﻿ / ﻿45.466435°N 71.012988°W﻿ / 45.466435; -71.012988
• elevation| 600 metres (2,000 ft)
Mouth| Lake Mégantic, Chaudière River

• location

| Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn

• coordinates

| 45°26′41″N 70°53′03″W﻿ / ﻿45.44483°N 70.88428°W﻿ / 45.44483; -70.88428

• elevation

| 395 metres (1,296 ft)
Length| 7 kilometres (4.3 mi)
Basin features
Progression| Lake Mégantic, Chaudière River, St. Lawrence River
River system| St. Lawrence River
Tributaries|
• left| (upstream)
• right| (upstream)

The ruisseau Saint-Joseph (in English: Saint-Joseph stream) is a tributary on the south shore of Lake Mégantic which flows into the Chaudière River; the latter flows northward to empty on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The stream flows in the municipality of Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, in the Le Granit Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec, in Canada.[1]

## Toponymy

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The toponym Ruisseau Saint-Joseph was made official on October 19, 1971, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]

## See also

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* Rivers portal

* List of rivers of Quebec

## References

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1. ^ "Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, the database and the site instrumentation". Retrieved 2021-01-06.
2. ^ Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: Ruisseau Saint-Joseph.

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