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Rivière des Cèdres

watercourse in Ferland-et-Boilleau, Quebec, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ30129463 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rivière des Cèdres is a tributary of the Ha! Ha! River, flowing in the municipality of Ferland-et-Boilleau, in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province, in Quebec, in Canada.

The valley of the "Rivière des Cèdres" is indirectly served by the route 381 which runs along the course of the Ha! Ha! River and Lake Ha! Ha! for the needs of forestry, agriculture and recreational tourism. Some secondary forest roads serve this valley.

Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second.

Editorial summary

“Rivière des Cèdres” enters the record as watercourse in Ferland-et-Boilleau, Quebec, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rivière, Cèdres and watercourse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 94-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rivière, Cèdres and watercourse.
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Why this record matters

“Rivière des Cèdres” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rivière, Cèdres and watercourse provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30129463. Authority coordinates are 48.238, -70.824. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rivière des Cèdres” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.