• Boat launching site Mise à l’eau du pont de la route 395 à Preissac 48°27'21.143”N
  78°21'42.248”O
• Rapids Rapide entre Preissac et le chemin Vautrin 48°25'26.954”N
  78°21'2.821”O
• Halte sur galet Butte rocheuse 48°22'52.276”N
  78°45'1.725”O
• Launching ramp Rampe de mise à l’eau de la rivière Kinojévis à Preissac 48°24'2.468”N
  78°21'50.054”O
• Boat launching site Mise à l’eau en aval des rapides de Preissac 48°24'31.489”N
  78°21'55.9”O
• Wild camping Camping sauvage en aval du pont du rang Vautrin 48°27'41.502”N
  78°19'51.7”O
• Carrying Portage des rapides de Preissac 48°24'31.489”N
  
• Rapids Rapide 1 de Preissac 48°24'20.033”N
  78°21'52.046”O
• Rapids Rapide 2 de Preissac sous le pont 48°24'30.249”N
  78°21'59.708”O
• Point of interest Observation d’oiseaux, lac Métissard, Parc national d’Aiguebelle 48°25'50.568”N
  78°40'33.172”O
• Evacuation sled Sortie d’urgence au pont du rang Vautrin à Preissac 48°26'42.745”N
  78°20'6.806”O
• Wild camping Camping sauvage en amont de “Flat Rapid” 48°26'27.339”N
  78°30'17.174”O
• Rapids “Flat Rapid” 48°26'30.259”N
  78°30'27.621”O
• Rapids Rapide Burn 48°26'29.234”N
  78°34'44.754”O
• Picnic table Abri de pique-nique 48°23'11.257”N
  78°49'22.08”O
• Eau maigre sous le pont du ruisseau Matissard en direction du camping Abijévis du Parc national d’Aiguebelle 48°25'49.228”N
  78°39'56.252”O
• Barrage de castor du ruisseau Matissard en direction du camping Abijévis 48°25'51.336”N
  78°40'4.634”O
• Commercial campsite Camping aménagé Abijévis (Parc national d'Aiguebelle, lac Matissard) 48°25'53.599"N
  78°41'31.819"O
• Wild camping Camping sauvage en aval des rapides de Mont-Brun 48°23'11.183”N
  78°46'17.43”O
• Rapids Rapide Clayhill de Mont-Brun 48°22'25.836”N
  78°43'28.926”O
• Carrying Portage du rapide 1 de Mont-Brun 48°22'16.552”N
  78°42'58.019”O
• Rapids Rapide 1 de Mont-Brun 48°22'18.41”N
  78°42'58.825”O
• Rapids Rapide 2 de Mont-Brun 48°22'28.445”N
  78°43'12.286”O
• Eau vive en aval de Mont-Brun 48°22'51.701”N
  78°44'59.126”O
• Launching ramp Rampe de mise à l’eau de la rivière Kinojévis dans le quartier Mont-Brun à Rouyn-Noranda 48°22'11.331”N
  78°42'50.235”O
• Wild camping Camping sauvage au premier rapide en amont du rapides Windfall à Cléricy 48°21'52.815”N
  78°51'24.027”O
• Eau vive en aval de Cléricy 48°17'43.252”N
  78°52'35.111”O
• Rapids Rapide en amont du rapide Windfall de Cléricy 48°21'51.998”N
  78°51'22.083”O
• Carrying Long portage du rapide Windfall et en amount de celui-ci de Cléricy 48°21'52.187”N
  78°51'22.639”O
• Carrying Portage du rapide Windfall de Cléricy 48°21'46.286”N
  78°51'32.114”O
• Rapids Rapide Windfall de Cléricy 48°21'47.101”N
  78°51'33.686”O
• Launching ramp Rampe de mise à l’eau de la rivière Kinojévis dans le quartier Cléricy à Rouyn-Noranda 48°21'48.111”N
  78°51'48.1”O
• Evacuation sled Sortie d’urgence en aval du quartier de Cléricy à Rouyn-Noranda 48°19'19.91”N
  78°52'39.699”O
• Boat launching site Rampe de mise à l’eau de la rivière Kinojévis à Rouyn-Noranda (chemin du Vieux-Pont Est) 48°12'28.074”N
  78°51'44.007”O
• Pieux de bois à hauteur d’eau en dessous du pont de la voie ferrée 48°13'8.16”N
  78°50'51.998”O
• Point of interest Observation d’oiseaux, lac Routhier 48°14'34.325”N
  78°54'20.2”O
• Circonflexe RécréOsisko 48°14'21.9"N
  79°00'57.0"O
• Circonflexe Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi Abitibi-Ouest 48°48'12.312"N
  79°12'18.108"O
• Circonflexe Maison du Tourisme Amos Harricana 48°3'28.87978"N
  77°47'36.96644"O
• Circonflexe Coop de L’Arrière-Pays 47°19'58.512"N
  79°26'15.108"O
• Circonflexe Parc du Belvédère à Malartic 48°8'1.86"N
  78°7'25.068"O
• Circonflexe Participarc, LaSarre 48°47'35.9052"N
  79°12'29.7126"O

Indications to the starting point

From Amos, take road 395 South. From Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or, on the 117, take route 395 North. In Preissac, cross the bridge on Rue des Rapides. Turn right on Main Avenue. Take the fork to the right to the launch ramp.

Free outdoor parking and launch ramp.
Position : 78°21'50,054"O  48°24'2,468"N

Indications to the point of arrival

From Rouyn-Noranda, take the 117 South road. After the bridge, turn right on the way to the Draveurs. Turn right on the way to the Old East Bridge to the gravel launch ramp.

Free outdoor parking and launch ramp.
Position : 78°51'44,007"O  48°12'28,074"N

Topographic maps

Topographic maps at a scale of 1:50,000 exist for the entire course of the river and we recommend that you use them in conjunction with this guide card.

32   D/8    Rivière Kinojévis
32   D/7    Rivière Kinojévis
32   D/2    Rivière Kinojévis, lac Routhier

Total slope: 10 meters

Obstacles and Dangers :

RAPIDS

• Presence of many surface rocks in the rapids making the descent demanding.

PORTAGE

• Well-equipped porting trails at the rapids of Preissac, Mont-Brun and Cléricy.
• No portage arranged at the edge of the rapids between Preissac and the Vautrin, the Flat Rapid and the Burn Rapid RII-III with a length of 830 meters.

Campsite :

The camping sites are insufficient at the end of the journey between Cléricy and the arrival point.

Geology

James Bay Hydrographic Basin

The Kinojévis River, 140 km long, flows northwards, originates in the lakes Preissac, Chassignol, Frontbon and Cadillac and flows into the Ottawa River downstream of the Rapid Two.

Fauna

The course is known for its very diverse fauna which includes, among others, black duck, fisherman, large heron, large peak, porcepice, red squirrel, beaver, musky rat, hare, marten, mink, mink, striped skunk, otter, mocalon, black bear, gray wolf, coyote, red fox, lynx.

Flora

The bodies of water are located in boreal forest in the domain of the white birch hoe which includes, inter alia, cedar, white and black spruce, balsam fir, aspen and birch.

On the eastern shore of the river, in the cantons of Joannes and Rouyn, there is the teaching and research forest of the Kinojévis established by the Ministry of Forests in May 1993. It was at the request of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue CEGEP that this forest was created in a territory that covers 410 hectares.

History

For thousands of years, the Kinojévis River served as a communications route for hunting Algonquins who traveled between the basins of the Harricana and Ottawa rivers. It was up the Outaouais and Kinojévis that forestry workers, prospectors and farmers began to arrive in the region during the 1920s. Commercial navigation and timber flotation were facilitated by the widening of the river into several lakes: Routhier, Vallet, Kinojévis.

Typonomy

John Bignell’s 1895 map identifies this river as the Algonquin name Kinojeviskaskatik, a term that refers to pike. This name is still used among the Aboriginal people of the region according to a toponym survey carried out in 1976. Others claim that Kinojevis is an adaptation of the term algonquin kinogewich, meaning bad pike, which would be reminiscent of the bad taste of pike fishing. The subsequent normalization of writing added emphasis on e to make it a Kinojevis, as evidenced by the 1914 Dictionary of Rivers and Lakes of the Province of Quebec. The forms Kewagama, Ke-Wa-Gama, Kinoje Oskatig and Kinojovis were also noted.