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Hocquart Lake

Coordinates: 48°00′46″N 71°33′03″W / 48.01278°N 71.55083°W / 48.01278; -71.55083
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Hocquart Lake
Hocquart Lake is located in Quebec
Hocquart Lake
Hocquart Lake
Location in Quebec
LocationLac-Achouakan
Coordinates48°00′46″N 71°33′03″W / 48.01278°N 71.55083°W / 48.01278; -71.55083
Lake typeNatural
Primary inflowsPika River, ruisseau Gobeil et par la décharge du lac Larivière.
Primary outflowsPika River
Basin countriesCanada
Max. length2.3 km (1.4 mi)
Max. width0.6 km (0.37 mi)
Surface elevation555 m (1,821 ft)

The lac Hocquart is a freshwater body crossed by the Pika River on the watershed of the Pikauba River and the Saguenay River. Lac Hocquart is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Achouakan, in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This lake is located in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.

This small valley is served indirectly by the route 169 and a few secondary routes for forestry, recreational tourism activities.[1]

Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreotourism activities, in second.

The surface of Lake Hocquart is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, but safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.

Geography

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The main watersheds near Lake Hocquart are:

Hocquart Lake is 2.3 km (1.4 mi) in the shape of a pallet hat, a width of 0.6 km (0.37 mi) and an altitude of 555 m (1,821 ft).

This lake is mainly fed by the Pika River (coming from the west), by the Gobeil stream (coming from the east) and by the outlet (coming from the south) of Lac Larivière. The mouth of this lake is located at:

From the mouth of Lake Hocquart, the current follows the course of the Pika River consecutively on 17.8 km (11.1 mi) to the north, the course of the Pikauba River on 35.0 m (114.8 ft) north to the confluence with Kenogami Lake; it crosses this lake on 17.6 km (10.9 mi) north-east to Barrage de Portage-des-Roches; the course of the Chicoutimi River on 26.2 km (16.3 mi) to the east, then the northeast and the course of the Saguenay River on 114.6 km (71.2 mi) east to Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence estuary.[2]

Toponymy

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This toponym evokes the life work of Gilles Hocquart (1694-1783), born in Mortagne-au-Perche (France). After having been controller of the port of Rochefort, he came in 1729 to settle in Quebec (city), as authorizing commissioner and interim intendant of New France, in order to replace Claude -Thomas Dupuy; he was confirmed in his functions in 1731. In about twenty years, Gilles Hocquart advanced settlement and agriculture, notably by granting seigneuries in the region of lac Champlain and in Nouvelle-Beauce. He ensured the completion of chemin du Roi, on the left bank of St. Lawrence River, in addition to encouraging shipbuilding, export development, industrial production at Forges du Saint-Maurice, while maintaining a fairly good balance in public finances. Returning to France in 1748, he was first, until 1763, steward of the port of Brest and, as such, he remained in contact with the colony by helping several Acadians deported to establishing themselves in France and ensuring the fitting out of ships bound for Quebec (city) during the Seven Years' War. Gilles Hocquart was appointed State Councilor in 1764 and, until his death, he was entrusted with the stewardship of the Navy classes.

One of his main achievements was the construction of a depot at the Intendant's palace in Quebec (city), where all of the colony's timed registers and documents are stored. Despite the refusal of the king of France, Gilles Hocquart arranged for this place to keep the official documents of the colony in a safe place. Several historians of French Canada emphasize that his stubbornness in front of the king would have made it possible to preserve a substantial part of the archives written in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.

The toponym "Lac Hocquart" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[3]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Open Street Map - Accessed January 31, 2019
  2. ^ a b c "Atlas du Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada - Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, database and site instrumentation". 12 September 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  3. ^ "lac Hocquart". Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved January 31, 2019.

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