Amédée River
The Amédée River is a tributary of the St. Lawrence River, crossing the town of Baie-Comeau, in the Manicouagan Regional County Municipality on the Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. The eastern part of the Amédée river valley is served by forest roads and indirectly by the Trans-Québec-Labrador road; the lower part, by the route 138. Besides the urban area (Baie-Comeau sector) at the end of the segment, forestry is the main economic activity in this valley. The surface of the Amédée River is usually frozen from the beginning of December  to the end of March, except the rapids areas; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally from mid-December to mid-March. Toponymy. The Amédée river is named in honor of Amédée Couillard-Després, first manager of the sawmill built at the mouth of the river by Damase and Henri Jalbert in 1898. The toponym “Amédée river” was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec. Geography. The Amédée River is part of the Manicouagan River watershed. It is supplied by Lake Amédée (length: ; altitude: ) located at northwest of downtown  town of Baie-Comeau. Lake Amédée is supplied by: The Amédée river has a free weir-type dam to regulate the water flow. The river ends with falls located near the site named Vieux Poste before emptying into the St. Lawrence River. The Amédée river flows for with a drop of , according to the following segments: The Amédée river flows at the bottom of a small bay on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, either: