Frontier Lake (Quebec-Maine)

Lake Frontier
Location	Lac-Frontière, Montmagny Regional County Municipality, Quebec,
Coordinates	46°42′24″N 70°00′04″W / 46.70667°N 70.00111°WCoordinates: 46°42′24″N 70°00′04″W / 46.70667°N 70.00111°W
Primary inflows	Northwest Branch Black River
Primary outflows	Northwest Branch Saint John River
Basin countries
Max. length	1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi)
Max. width	0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi)
Surface elevation	347 metres (1,138 ft)
Settlements	Lac-Frontière, Quebec

The Lake Frontier is a lake located entirely in the municipality of Lac-Frontière, Quebec in regional county municipality (RCM) Montmagny in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.

From 1915, the small town South of the lake, called "Lac-Frontière" (English: Lake-Frontier), has had some development through the terminus of the Central Quebec railway.

In the XIXth century and Twentieth century, the forest industry was the main economic activity of the region. Upon arrival of the railroad, the recreational and tourist vocation of the region has significantly developed.

Geography

Frontier lake supplies water by its tributary the Northwest Black River (from the North) and the Creek Reservoir (from the West). The village in the municipality of Lac-Frontière, Quebec is located at South of the lake.

The mouth of Frontier Lake is located on Southeast bank of the lake at:

• 0.9 kilometres (0.56 mi) West of the Canada-US border;
• 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) North of the village center of Lac-Frontière, Quebec;
• 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) East of the summit of the "Montagne du Lac" (Mountain of the Lake) (elevation: 510 metres (1,670 ft));
• 4.4 kilometres (2.7 mi) Southeast from the village of Sainte-Lucie-de-Beauregard, Quebec.

Toponymy

The choice of this place name is explained by its proximity to the US border. Established in 1842, this border in the Treaty of Webster-Ashburton, after lengthy negotiations between the British and the Americans.

Subsequently, the British set up camp on the banks of the lake, to accommodate their surveyors who went to topographic surveys in order to determine more precisely the border. At the same time, the inhabitants of the region of Montmagny had designated this expanse of water "English Lake", by associating it with the language of people who were there, both British Americans. Cartographic documents of the time translated this term as "English Lake" ^[1]

The place name "Lake Frontier" was formalized as of December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Quebec Names Board).^[2]

References

1. Source. "Names and places of Québec", the work of the Quebec Geographical Names Board, published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a dictionary illustrated print, and under that of a CD produced by the Micro-Intel in 1997 from the dictionary.
2. Commission de toponymie du Québec (Quebec Place Names Board) - Banque des noms de lieux (Bank of place names) - Toponym: "Frontier Lake"

See also

• Montmagny, a regional county municipality (RCM)
• Lac-Frontière, Quebec, a municipality
• Northwest Black River (Lake Frontier), a stream
• Northwest Branch Saint John River, a stream
• Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)