(upstream) ruisseau Vimy, décharge du lac de l'Est
The rivière au Pin (in English: Pine River) is a tributary of the Bécancour River which is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec, in Canada.
3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) northeasterly, to its mouth located northeast of the lake;
2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi) towards the north, crossing the boundary between the municipalities of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown and Disraeli, Quebec (city), to the mouth of the "Mud Pond" (length: 0.6 kilometres (0.37 mi); altitude: 346 metres (1,135 ft)) which the current has crossed over its full length;
1.1 kilometres (0.68 mi) northward, to the mouth of Petit lac Long (length: 0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi); altitude: 334 metres (1,096 ft));
Lower course of the Pin River (segment of 183 kilometres (114 mi))
From this municipal limit, the Rivière au Pin flows over:
2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) north to a road bridge;
1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) northward, to the confluence of Vimy Creek (coming from the north);
4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi) westward, up to the confluence of the Blanche River (coming from the west);
1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) northward, up to the municipal boundary between Saint-Julien and Irlande;
3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) north to the road;
4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) (or 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) in a direct line) towards the north, winding in a marsh area, until its confluence.[1]
The Rivière au Pin flows into a bend in the river on the south bank of the Bécancour River. This confluence is located in a marsh area, at 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) upstream of the Stater Pond (which the Bécancour River partly crosses), at 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) southwest of Cranberry hamlet and 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) east of the summit of Mont Dillon.
Toponymy
Logging, in particular the essence of pine, contributed to the colonization of the region of Appalachians.
The Rivière aux Pins appears on an 1883 cadastral map of the canton of Ireland.[2]
^Source: Names and places of Quebec, 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.
