Rivière-au-Renard

Rivière-au-Renard is a former municipality in the Gaspé Peninsula, in the province of Quebec, Canada, now part of the Town of Gaspé. Originally settled in the 1790s by French-Canadian and Irish families, Rivière-au-Renard is located on the banks of a large open bay on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the eastern end of the Gaspé Peninsula.

Photo: Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0.

Type: Village with 1,050 residents
Description: village in Gaspé, Quebec, Canada, former municipality
Also known as: “Fox”, “Fox River”, “Riviere-au-Renard”, and “Rivière-au-Renard, Quebec”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include L’Anse-au-Griffon and Saint-Maurice-de-l’Échouerie.

L’Anse-au-Griffon

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

L’Anse-au-Griffon is a village in the municipality of Gaspé in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the north shore of the Forillon Peninsula, on the eponymous Griffin Cove, not far north of the main settlement of Gaspé, and is bordered by the… L’Anse-au-Griffon is situated 9 km southeast of Rivière-au-Renard.

Saint-Maurice-de-l’Échouerie

Village

Photo: Anna Frodesiak, Public domain.

Saint-Maurice-de-l’Échouerie is a village, which is situated 9 km northwest of Rivière-au-Renard.

Rivière-au-Renard

Categories: township municipality, municipality, former municipality, and locality
Location: Gaspé, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude

48.99256° or 48° 59′ 33″ north

Longitude

-64.3858° or 64° 23′ 9″ west

Population

1,050

Elevation

3 metres (10 feet)

Open location code

87WQXJV7+2M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1305353420

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

6943832

Wikidata ID

Q3433594

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Satellite Map

Discover Rivière-au-Renard from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Rivière-au-Renard” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Riviere-au-Renard”
Dutch: “Rivière-au-Renard”
French: “Fox River”
French: “Fox-et-Sydenham-Nord”
French: “Fox-River”
French: “Fox”
French: “Rivière-au-Renard”
French: “Saint-Martin-de-la-Rivière-au-Renard”
French: “Saint-Martin-de-Rivière-au-Renard”
French: “Sydenham-Nord”
Portuguese: “Rivière-au-Renard”
Spanish: “Rivière-au-Renard”
Swedish: “Rivière-au-Renard”
Turkish: “Rivière-au-Renard”
“Rivière-au-Renard”

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