page_title: Saint-Joseph Lake
section_title: Toponymy
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Joseph Lake / Toponymy
caption_attribution_description: Le lac St-Joseph
context_page_description: Saint-Joseph Lake is a freshwater body located in the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec.
  Recreational and tourist activities, especially vacationing, are the main economic activity around the lake; forestry, second. The shores all around Lake Saint-Joseph are highly renowned for vacationing, particularly because of the forest, mountain environment, recreational tourism, road access, proximity to the city of Quebec and especially the Duchesnay tourist resort which surrounds Lake Saint-Joseph three-quarters.
  Chemin Thomas-Maher goes around the lake for the purposes of recreational tourism and forestry.
  The surface of Lake Saint-Joseph is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March.
context_section_description: This toponym is indicated in legend on the map designed in 1632 by Samuel de Champlain; however, he erroneously indicates the source of the Saint-Charles River. In his work "Histoire du Canada" published in 1636, Recollect brother Gabriel Sagard writes: "They go hunting (the season being good) towards Lake Sainct Joseph, where they made a profit at the expense of the caribouts, explores e other bestes which are in abundance. This lake of Sainct Joseph, of great extent, was so named by the François because the P. Joseph, Superior of our House, had spent part of a hyver with the Barbarians there".
  The toponym "Lac Saint-Joseph" appears in 1656 on the map of Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville under the script "L. St Joseph". At the beginning of XIXth, the Amerindian designation of this lake was "Ontarietsi" or "Ontaritzi". In 1833, the Gazette de Québec used the name "Lontarizé". At that time, about thirty Irish families who arrived in 1817 from Connecticut, occupied the current area southeast of the lake, designated Fossambault-sur-le-Lac. Lac St-Joseph was also named "Grand Lac des Vents". The toponym "Lac Saint-Joseph" was officially recognized in 1912.
  The toponym "Lac Saint-Joseph" was formalized on December 5, 1968 at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.
caption: The lake in winter
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