Lake Megantic

Lake Megantic is a physique of cloud in Quebec, located in the Appalachian Mountains close to the U.S. border. It is a supply regarding the Chaudiere River which drains between the St Lawrence River at Quebec City. The name Megantic potential where the fish gather' of the Abenaquis language. The pond has a surface place of 26.4 km2 along ious villages or little towns about its shores, which includes Lac-Megantic, Frontenac, Marston, or Piopolis. It is portion concerning Le Granit Regional County Municipality, a rural vicinity where forestry and granite extraction are necessary activities.

Two origins because of the honour "Megantic" have been proposed. The preceding is that the pond renown originates beside an unspecified partial language, "mekwawatíhk" meaning "Mohawk Road". The lousy is that the name used to be partial through the express Scottish settlers, initially rendered something like "Moose Tookmegun Tic Lake", European mimicry of the Native American grammar on vicinity names: "moose-look-me-gun-kick". The representation existence as "the moose only looked at me or my gun kicked - the Indians meant that under no circumstances received the moose".