Bras du Nord (Sainte-Anne River tributary)


The Bras du Nord is a tributary of the Sainte-Anne River flowing in the town of Saint-Raymond, in the MRC of Portneuf, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, in Canada.
The Bras du Nord is mainly served by the rang Saguenay road which runs on the east bank of the river.
The main economic activities in the sector are forestry and recreational tourism activities.
The surface of the North Arm is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, but the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from the end of December to the beginning of March.

Geography

The Bras du Nord rises at the confluence of the rivers Sainte-Anne Ouest and Neilson. From this confluence, the Bras du Nord flows for to the south, generally in the forest zone, sometimes agricultural at the end of the route, with a drop of according to the following segments:
Upper course of the North Arm
Lower reaches of the North Arm
The Bras du Nord flows onto the northwest bank of the Sainte-Anne River at downstream from the route 365 which passes through downtown Saint-Raymond. From this confluence, the current descends on generally towards the south and the southwest by following the course of the Sainte-Anne river, until the northwest bank of the St. Lawrence River.

Toponymy

This toponym refers to its location north of the Sainte-Anne river. This toponym appears on the plan of a part of the seigneury of Bourg-Louis carried out by the surveyor Ignace-Pierre Déry, in 1851.
The toponym "Bras du Nord" was formalized on April 22, 2008 at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.