The Victoria River (in French: rivière Victoria) is a tributary of the Chaudière River, therefore a sub-tributary of the St. Lawrence River.
The Victoria River flows through the municipalities of Val-Racine, Piopolis and Marston, in the Le Granit Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
Toponymy The toponym of this watercourse was attributed around the middle of the XIXth in honor of Queen Victoria, whose reign extended from 1837 to 1901.Source: "Names and Places du Québec", work by the Commission de toponymie du Québec, published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and in that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
The toponym "Rivière Victoria" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.- Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of place names - Toponym: "rivière Victoria".
See also List of rivers of Quebec
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