This lake is entirely located in the canton of Ventadour which is at the end
West of the MRC Le Domaine-du-Roy.
Forestry is the main economic activity of the sector. Recreational tourism activities come second.
The forest road route 212 linking Obedjiwan, Quebec and La Tuque pass south of Dubois Lake and Normandin Lake. Other secondary forest roads serve the vicinity of the lake.
The surface of Normandin Lake is usually frozen from early November to mid-May, however safe ice circulation is generally from mid-November to mid-April.
Geography
This lake has a length of 6.7 kilometres (4.2 mi), a maximum width of 0.9 kilometres (0.56 mi) and an altitude of 403 metres (1,322 ft). Lake Normandin has two main parts separated by a short strait: the southern one measuring 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) and the northern one with a length of 4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi).
The mouth of Lake Normandin is located at:
5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi) south-west of the mouth of the Little Buade Lake;
From the mouth of Lake Normandin, the current flows over 33.4 kilometres (20.8 mi) northeasterly to the mouth of Buade Lake (Normandin River), 26.3 kilometres (16.3 mi) north to the mouth of Nicabau Lake and 38.7 kilometres (24.0 mi) to the southeast, to Ashuapmushuan Lake which constitutes the lake head of the Ashuapmushuan River. This last river flows on the west shore of Lac-Saint-Jean.
Toponymy
In 1900, this toponym is indicated on the Map of a road leading to the Lake
Saint John to James Bay by the rivers Chamouchouan, Nottaway, Rupert
explored in 1897-98-99 by Henry O'Sullivan, Land Survey Inspector
province of Quebec. The name of the lake evokes the work of the life of the surveyor Joseph-Laurent Normandin. The latter had traveled the region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean in 1732 to draw a detailed map of the place by locating the lakes, large and small, and to fix the boundaries of the Domaine du Roi.
Normandin also wrote a journal entitled Journal de voyage that Joseph-Laurent Normandin had made in the King's domain in Canada from the Chicoutimi post office to the height of the land in 1732. During his exploration in 1732, Joseph- Laurent Normandin had designated Lake Normandin under the name "Lac Patchitachekaosakajgane", meaning lake of the height of land.[2][3]
The toponym "Lake Normandin" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec, i.e. at the creation of this commission.[4]
Notes and references
^Distances measured from the Atlas of Canada (published on the Internet) of the Department of Natural Resources Canada.
^Names and Places of Quebec, a work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec, published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of 'a printed illustrated dictionary, and under that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
^BOUCHARD, Russel Exploration of the Saguenay by J.-L Normandin in 1732: In the heart of the domain of the king, Sillery, Septentrion, 2002, pages 197-198.
