Saint Francis River (Canada–United States)

Saint Francis River Rivière Saint-François
Saint Francis River from Petit-Témis
Country	Canada, United States
Basin
Main source	Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec (Québec) 359 metres (1,178 ft) 47°40′36″N 69°21′19″W / 47.67667°N 69.35528°W / 47.67667; -69.35528
River mouth	St. Francis (Maine) Saint-François Parish (New Brunswick); flowing in Saint John River 163 metres (535 ft) 47°10′49″N 68°54′14″W / 47.18028°N 68.90389°W / 47.18028; -68.90389 (Mouth of Saint Francis River)Coordinates: 47°10′49″N 68°54′14″W / 47.18028°N 68.90389°W / 47.18028; -68.90389 (Mouth of Saint Francis River)
Alt. difference	196 metres (643 ft)
Physical characteristics
Length	102.4 kilometres (63.6 mi)
Features
Tributaries	Left: (from the mouth) Canadian Tuladi Brook, Bogasse brook, Petite coulée Creuse, Coulée Creuse brook, Jim brook, Pelletier brook, Botsford brook, Bleue River (St Francis river), Providence brook, Beaupré brook (discharge of Volcan lake), Des Saules brook, discharge of Morrison lake and Yards lake, Turner brook, Cascades brook, Armstrong brook, Castonguay brook. Right: (from the mouth) Falls brook, Yankeetuladi brook, Jones brook, Dead brook, Wildcat brook, Rousseau brook, Chouinard brook, Bouchard brook, Boucanée River, Cèdres brook, Black brook.

The St. Francis River (French: Rivière Saint-François) is a river roughly 75 miles (120 km) long, which forms part of the Canada–United States border. The river rises (47°44′07″N 69°17′15″W / 47.7352°N 69.2874°W / 47.7352; -69.2874 (Rivière Saint-François source)) in a lake of the same name located 12 miles (20 km) east of the Rivière du Loup in Quebec. The portion that forms the boundary starts at the bottom of Lake Pohenegamook at the very northernmost point of New England between Estcourt Station, Maine, and Estcourt, Quebec. The river along the international boundary flows south and then south-east through two deep, narrow lakes to its mouth on the Saint John River at St. Francis, Maine/Saint-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick.^[1]

USS Bancroft (DD-256) became a Canadian ship as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement and was renamed after the St. Francis River to follow the Canadian tradition of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers while recognizing the shared national history of the ship.^[2]

Beau Lake

Beau Lake (French: Lac Beau)
Location	Temiscouata Regional County Municipality (Quebec) Aroostook County, Maine
Basin countries	Canada United States

Max. length	5 mi (8.0 km)^[3]
Max. width	1 km (1,100 yd)^[3]
Surface area	1,795 acres (726 ha)^[4]
Max. depth	180 feet (55 m)^[5]
Water volume	138,678 acre·ft (171,057,000 m³)^[4]
Surface elevation	575 ft (175 m)^[3]

Saint Francis River passes through Beau Lake on the border between Maine and Quebec. The river enters the north end of Beau Lake 15 miles (24 km) downstream of Lake Pohenegamook and leaves the south end of Beau Lake 13 miles (21 km) upstream of the Saint John River confluence.^[3] Beau Lake is one of the deepest lakes in northern Maine. The lake is ideal habitat for lake trout, brook trout, and land-locked Atlantic salmon; but these species are in competition with a large population of yellow perch, and muskellunge are migrating into the lake from downstream.^[5]

Glazier Lake

Glazier Lake (French: Lac Glazier)
Location	Madawaska County (New Brunswick) Aroostook County, Maine
Basin countries	Canada United States

Max. length	5.5 mi (8.9 km)^[3]
Surface area	703 acres (284 ha)^[4]
Max. depth	118 feet (36 m)^[6]
Water volume	47,001 acre·ft (57,975,000 m³)^[4]
Surface elevation	559 ft (170 m)^[3]

Saint Francis River passes through Glazier Lake on the border between Maine and New Brunswick. The river enters the north end of Glazier Lake 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream of Beau Lake and leaves the south end of Beau Lake 4 miles (6.4 km) upstream of the Saint John River confluence. Tributaries to the lake include Yankeetuladi Brook on the Maine side, and Canadian Tuladi Brook on the New Brunswick side.^[3] Glazier Lake is deep and narrow similar to Beau Lake, and offers similarly suitable habitat for lake trout, brook trout, salmon, and muskellunge.^[6]

References

↑ Bailey 1894 pp. 27–28
↑ Milner 1985 p. 23
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Maine Atlas and Gazeteer (Thirteenth ed.). Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping Company. 1988. pp. 66&67. ISBN 0-89933-035-5.
1 2 3 4 Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (2005-08-04). "Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information". Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
1 2 "Beau Lake" (PDF). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. State of Maine. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
1 2 "Glazier Lake" (PDF). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. State of Maine. Retrieved 16 May 2016.

Bailey, J.W. (1894). The St. John River in Maine, Quebec, and New Brunswick. Cambridge: Riverside Press. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
Milner, Marc (1985). North Atlantic Run. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-450-0.

Saint John River Watershed

Tributaries	Allagash River Aroostook River Baker Branch Saint John River Becaguimec Stream Big Black River Birch River Blackwater River Campbell Branch Little Black River River De Chute Daaquam River Fish River Hammond River Jemseg River Kennebecasis River Keswick River Little Black River Little Machias River Little Madawaska River Little River Little Saint Roch River Little Southwest Branch Saint John River Machias River Madawaska River Meduxnekeag River Musquacook Stream Nashwaak River Nerepis River North Branch Birch River North Branch Blackwater River North Branch Meduxnekeag River Northwest Branch Saint John River Oromocto River Red River Saint Croix Stream Saint Francis River Shields Branch South Branch Birch River South Branch Blackwater River South Branch Machias River South Branch Meduxnekeag River Southwest Branch Saint John River Tobique River West Branch Little Black River

Lakes	Baker Lake Beau Lake Chemquasabamticook Lake Churchill Lake Clear Lake Cross Lake Eagle Lake (Allagash R.) Eagle Lake (Fish R.) Fish River Lake Glazier Lake Grand Lake Long Lake Mactaquac Lake Millinocket Lake Mud Lake Munsungan Lake Musquacook Lakes Lake Pohenegamook Portage Lake Saint Froid Lake Saint John Ponds Scopan Lake Square Lake Umsaskis Lake

Towns	Allagash Ashland Blaine Bridgewater Caribou Eagle Lake Easton Edmundston Florenceville-Bristol Fort Fairfield Fort Kent Fredericton Frenchville Grand Bay–Westfield Grand Falls Grand Isle Hampton Hartland Hodgdon Houlton Lac-Frontière Limestone Littleton Madawaska Mapleton Mars Hill Masardis Monticello Nackawic New Limerick Oromocto Perham Perth-Andover Pohénégamook Portage Lake Presque Isle Quispamsis Rivière-Bleue Rothesay Sainte Agatha Saint-Camille-de-Lellis Saint-Cyprien Saint Francis Saint John Saint-Just-de-Bretenières Saint-Léonard Saint-Marcel Saint-Pamphile Saint-Zacharie Stockholm Sussex Van Buren Washburn Westfield Woodstock

Landmarks	Allagash Wilderness Waterway Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Clair–Fort Kent Bridge Edmundston–Madawaska Bridge Florenceville Bridge Fort Kent Hartland Bridge North Maine Woods Reversing Falls Saint John Harbour Bridge Saint John River High Level Crossing Saint Leonard–Van Buren Bridge Tinker Dam Watson Settlement Bridge

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Saint Francis River (Canada–United States)

Beau Lake

Glazier Lake

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