Brûlé Lake (Romaine)

Brûlé Lake (French: Lac Brûlé: Burnt Lake) is a lake in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, the eastern shore of which marks the boundary with Labrador (the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador).

Brûlé Lake
Lac Brûlé
Upuapuhkau Nipi (Innu)
Satellite view
Brûlé Lake
Location	Lac-Jérôme, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada
Coordinates	52.25°N 63.80°W / 52.25; -63.80
Primary inflows	Romaine River
Primary outflows	Romaine River
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	34 kilometers (21 mi)
Max. width	5.7 kilometers (3.5 mi)
Surface area	89 square kilometres (34 sq mi)
Surface elevation	485 meters (1,591 ft)

Location

Brûlé Lake is in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jérôme in the Minganie Regional County Municipality.^[1] The lake lies at an elevation of 485 meters (1,591 ft).^{[citation needed]} Brûlé Lake is a widening of the Romaine River, which flows south into the Jacques-Cartier Strait west of Havre-Saint-Pierre. The lake is 34 kilometres (21 mi) long and 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) wide. It covers an area of nearly 89 square kilometres (34 sq mi). At this point, the Romaine River defines the border between Quebec and Labrador.^[2] A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the lake in the sub-region 7c-T of the east spruce/lichen subdomain.^[3]

Name

The Innu call the lake Upuapuhkau Nipi or Upuâpûhkâu Nipi, meaning "lake whose perimeter burned in the past". It is also called Apuabushkau or Apuabushkash. In the 19th century, it was called Lacs Brûlés, referring to the connected Brûlé, Lavoie and Anderson lakes. On maps of 1898 and 1907 it is shown as "L. Brulé", then on a map of 1911 as "Burnt Lakes", and in 1924 as "Lac Brulé". There are ninety lakes called Lac Brûlé, Brûlés or Brûlée in Quebec.^[2]

Notes

1. Lac Brûlé, Ressources naturelles.
2. Lac Brûlé, Commission.
3. Saucier et al. 2011.

Sources

• Lac Brûlé (in French), Commission de toponymie du Québec, retrieved 2019-10-20
• Lac Brûlé (in French), Ressources naturelles Canada, retrieved 2019-10-20
• Saucier, J.-P.; Robitaille, A.; Grondin, P.; Bergeron, J.-F.; Gosselin, J. (2011), Les régions écologiques du Québec méridional (PDF) (map), 4 (in French), Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune, archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-19, retrieved 2019-09-26