| Pike River | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Notre-Dame-de--Stanbridge_Rivi%C3%A8re_aux_Brochets.jpg) Pike River in Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge | |
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| Native name | Rivière aux Brochets (French) |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Estrie |
| Regional County Municipality | Franklin County, Vermont, Brome-Missisquoi |
| Municipalities | Frelighsburg, Stanbridge East, Bedford, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Pike River (the eponymous municipality) and Saint-Armand. |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | South side of Mount Pinacle |
| • location | Frelighsburg |
| • coordinates | 45°01′26″N 072°44′00″W / 45.02389°N 72.73333°W[1] |
| Mouth | Missisquoi Bay of Lake Champlain |
• location | Saint-Armand |
• coordinates | 45°04′15″N 73°05′50″W / 45.07083°N 73.09722°W |
• elevation | 31 m (102 ft) |
| Length | 67 km (42 mi) |
| Basin size | 630 km2 (240 sq mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Missisquoi Bay - Lake Champlain - Richelieu River - St. Lawrence River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | (Upstream) Louis-Rocheleau brook, Rocheleau brook, Galipeau brook, Charles-Côté stream, Meigs brook, Dutch Street brook, Martindale-Montagne brook, Grothers brook. |
| • right | (Upstream) Bellefroid-Dandurand brook, Ewing brook, the little brook, Pelletier brook, Morpions brook, Charorn brook, Walbridge brook, McNamara stream, Coslett brook, Campbell-Dufresne brook, Merida-Verville stream, North Pike River, Dextraze brook, watercourse Baker-Cage Water, Furnace Creek, Callaghan Creek, Boffin Creek, Leavitt Creek, Selby Creek, Abbott's Corner Creek. |
Pike River (French: Rivière aux Brochets) is a tributary of Lake Champlain (via Missisquoi Bay), flowing successively in:
- Franklin County, Vermont, in northern Vermont (United States); and
- the municipalities of Frelighsburg, Stanbridge East, Bedford, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Pike River (the eponymous municipality) and Saint-Armand, in Brome-Missisquoi, in the administrative region of Estrie, in the south of province of Quebec, Canada.[2]
Besides the village areas, agriculture and forestry are the main economic activities in this valley.
The river surface is generally frozen from mid-December to the end of March. Safe traffic on the ice is generally from late December to early March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation.