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Vachon River

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Length
  
266 km

Province
  
Québec

Country
  
Canada

Source
  
Nunavik

Mouth
  
Arnaud River

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Main source
  
Lac Laflamme (a.k.a. Manarsulik Lake), Nunavik, Quebec 487.5 m (1,599 ft)

River mouth
  
Arnaud/Payne River; 5 m (16 ft)

Vachon River (French: Rivière Vachon, Inuktitut: Ikkatujaaq (seemingly shallow) or Qarnatulik (unknown meaning) or Avaluko (unknown meaning)) is a river in the Arctic tundra of Nunavik, Quebec. It originates on Lac Laflamme at 61°21′49″N 73°45′36″W just north of Pingualuit crater and finishes at 60°4′43″N 71°8′59″W where it joins Arnaud/Payne River. It was named after bishop Alexander Vachon (1885–1953), rector of Laval University in 1939 and from 1940 to 1953, archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa.

Map of Rivi%C3%A8re Vachon, Rivi%C3%A8re-Koksoak, QC, Canada

Despite the access and paddling difficulties (long rapids and ledges) and extreme climatic conditions, river is occasionally paddled by canoeists:

  • in 1978, 4 canoeists from Quebec, Canada, paddled Vachon upstream as access route to Puvirnituq River
  • in 1985, the group of 4 canoeists (Pascal Dorémus, Jacques Lavoué, Olivier Barbier and Philippe Zanni) from Lyon, France coming from Puvirnituq, upstream Puvirnituq river
  • in 2009, solo canoeist Eric Leclair from Quebec
  • in 2010, the group of 4 canoeists (Lynette Chubb and Lester Kovac from Ontario and Curt Gellerman and Wesley Rusk from the United States)

    • River is inhabited by an important Arctic char population harvested for subsistence by the Inuit of Kangirsuk.

    References

    Vachon River Wikipedia
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