The
Laurentian Mountains (French:
Laurentides) are a mountain
range in southern Quebec
, Canada
, north of
the St. Lawrence
River
and Ottawa River,
rising to a highest point of at Mont Raoul Blanchard
, north east of Quebec City in the Réserve Faunique
des Laurentides. The Gatineau
, L'Assomption, Lièvre, Montmorency
, Nord and
St. Maurice rivers are sourced
from lakes in this mountain range.
As a part
of the Canadian Shield, the
Laurentians are a part of the same geologic formation as the
Adirondack Mountains in
New York
State
, although the Adirondacks are sometimes included
with the Appalachian
Mountains
.
Note that
although one of Quebec's official regions is called Laurentides, the mountain range runs
through four other regions; Capitale-Nationale
, Outaouais
, Lanaudière, and
Mauricie
. The foothills of the Laurentian range extend
into Northeastern Ontario,
particularly towards Bonnechere, Ontario
as the Laurentian
Highlands, Madawaska
Highlands, a range of hills near the Madawaska River and Opeongo Lake
, and the Opeongo Hills
(another range of high hills, near Round Lake
) in Ontario near the town of Combermere
.
The Laurentian Mountain range is one of the oldest mountain ranges
in the world. It contains rocks deposited during
Cambrian time, 540 million years ago. . The
Laurentians are the central part of the
Grenville orogeny 1100-1000 mya (million
years) ago.
Scenes from the 1996 film
Snowboard Academy were shot
here.
References
- Encyclopedia Britannica "[1]", Encyclopædia Britannica,© 2007.
Retrieved on March 9,
2007
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