Rivière au Pin (Bécancour River tributary)
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. The Pin River flows successively, in the MRC of: Geography. The main neighboring watersheds of the rivière au Pin are: The rivière au Pin has its source at Sunday Lake (length: ; altitude: ) in the municipality of Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens. This lake is located north of Mont Louise (Arthabaska), northeast of the village of Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, north of route 161 and south  of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown. From Sunday Lake, the Pin River flows on divided into the following segments: Upper course of the Pin River (segment of ) Lower course of the Pin River (segment of ) From this municipal limit, the Rivière au Pin flows over: 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 upstream of the Stater Pond (which the Bécancour River partly crosses), at southwest of Cranberry hamlet and 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. The toponym Rivière au Pin was made official on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.