Lac Bois Franc
46.3355° N, 75.8404° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Lac Bois Franc, Quebec. 46.3355° N, 75.8404° W
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borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-bois-franc-near-maniwaki/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- États trophiques des lacs (RSVL), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
Lac Bois Franc covers 2.08 km², making it larger than 84% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies 1.7 km north of Cresthill.
- Area
- 2.08 km²
- larger than 84% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 13.6 km
- longer than 83% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 5 mSecchi depth, 2025
- clearer than 71% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 175 m
Today on the water
6.7 °C
Observed at Maniwaki, as of 4:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m. Around 9 a.m., wind from the northwest: the northwest shore is sheltered, waves build toward the southeast shore.
| Time | 5 a.m. | 8 a.m. | 11 a.m. | 2 p.m. | 5 p.m. | 8 p.m. | 11 p.m. | 2 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | NW 10 | NW 20 | NW 20 | NW 20 | NW 10 | var. 5 | var. 5 |
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||
| Temp. °C | 5 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Precip. % | 60 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Partly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Low plus 5.
Weather: Maniwaki (local forecast), as of 4:02 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:42 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:12 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:27 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:57 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:03 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:46 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: oligo-mesotrophic (transition).
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 13 years between 2013 and 2025; the latest annual mean is 5 m.
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