Lake Quatre Lieues (French: Lac Quatre Lieues; Four-League Lake) is a lake in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is set in a wilderness area and may be used for relaxation, fishing or hunting.
Name
The name Quatre Lieues refers to the location of the lake, which is four leagues, or 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the west of Shelter Bay, Quebec.[1]
The northern part of the lake is 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) long and 390 metres (1,280 ft) wide.[5]
It lies in a slender lacustrine basin 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi) long by 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) wide with bays and sandbanks, an extension of the Lake Walker basin.
The surrounding terraces are formed of sandy materials of deltaic origin.[6]
These deposits were laid down during glacial decay in the Holocene.[7]
The southern extension forms a narrow and winding basin 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) long cut into the plateau.[5]
NASA images indicate that the lake is in a region mostly covered in coniferous forests.[9]
The district is in the boreal climate zone under the Köppen climate classification.[10]
A map of the Ecological regions of Quebec places the lake in the 6J-T ecological subregion, part of the eastern spruce/moss domain of the boreal zone.[11]
The average annual temperature in the region is 0 °C (32 °F).
The warmest month is July, when the average temperature is 16 °C (61 °F) and the coldest is January with an average of −17 °C (1 °F).[12]
Average annual rainfall is 1,014 millimetres (39.9 in), of which 361.5 millimetres (14.23 in) falls as snow.[6]
Visiting
The lake is a magnificent place for relaxation, fishing, hunting and boating.[5]
The Port-Cartier–Sept-Îles Wildlife Reserve offers chalet rentals for hunting and fishing in the Quatre-lieues area.
The hunting area is about 150 square kilometres (58 sq mi) with hardwood forests about 50 years old and mature spruce.[13]
In 2013 fishing for atlantic salmon was prohibited.
Angling or fly fishing for other species was allowed from 11 May 2012 to 3 September 2012.[14]
Saucier, J.-P.; Robitaille, A.; Grondin, P.; Bergeron, J.-F.; Gosselin, J. (2011), Les régions écologiques du Québec méridional(PDF) (map), 4 (in French), Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune, archived from the original(PDF) on 2020-06-19, retrieved 2019-09-14