Explore Lac-Danford, Quebec, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lac-Danford, Quebec. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Quebec or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Lac-Danford and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Lac-Danford.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
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| Place | Lac-Danford |
| Type | Hamlet |
| Province / Territory | Quebec (QC) |
| Location | Kazabazua; La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 45.951944 |
| Longitude | -76.133611 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | J8N |
| Area Code | 263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873 |
| Importance | Village / hamlet |
| CGN ID | EGWEY |
Lac-Danford is a hamlet in Kazabazua; La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Lac-Danford is located at 45.9519°N, 76.1336°W.
Lac-Danford rests within the rugged folds of the Colline à Howard, where the land rises in quiet, forested swells that hold the morning mist long after the sun has climbed the sky. It lies 47.7 km north-east of Shawville, QC (from Shawville, QC: bearing 36°T), and is situated 15.5 km south-south-west of Gracefield. The air here carries a sharp, resinous scent of pine and damp earth, a stillness that seems to deepen as one moves away from the gravel roads and toward the water’s edge. Lac Danford sits a mere kilometer away, its surface often mirroring the heavy, grey-blue clouds that gather over the Quebec hills. While the Rivière Gatineau flows nine kilometers distant, the immediate terrain around Lac-Danford feels sequestered, a private pocket of wilderness where the light at dusk turns the tree lines into silhouettes of deep violet and charcoal. The history of Lac-Danford is marked by the steady, modest pulse of those who have long worked the timber and the soil of La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau. Life here follows the turning of the seasons, from the arduous clearing of winter ice to the brief, vibrant growth of the short summer months. Though the Réserve écologique André-Michaux lies twenty-three kilometers away, the spirit of conservation echoes locally in the way residents attend to the woods and the quietude of their surroundings. Economic life has shifted over the generations, moving away from intensive extraction toward a careful stewardship that values the solitude of the landscape. In the evenings, the distant, muffled sound of a chainsaw or the call of a loon across the water confirms that Lac-Danford remains a place defined by its distance from the frantic pace of the modern world.
Lac-Danford s’étire avec une tranquille obstination sur le relief accidenté de la Colline à Howard, où le granit ancien semble vouloir percer la mince couche de terre arable. À proximité, le Lac Danford retient la lumière déclinante du soir, renvoyant aux pins une clarté argentée qui transforme la surface de l’eau en miroir immobile. Cette contrée de Kazabazua, dans La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, se définit par un silence que seule la Rivière Gatineau, coulant à quelques kilomètres, vient ponctuer d’un murmure lointain et persistant. Les premières familles qui ont défriché ces terres ont appris à composer avec la rudesse du bouclier canadien, bâtissant leur existence sur une agriculture de subsistance et l'exploitation forestière qui ont façonné les contours des routes sinueuses. Bien que la Réserve écologique André-Michaux demeure une présence sauvage et lointaine dans le paysage, le quotidien à Lac-Danford s’articule autour de ces espaces où le ciel, vaste et changeant, dicte le rythme des travaux. Les habitants entretiennent une relation étroite avec ce sol rocailleux, héritage d'une histoire forgée dans la patience des gestes répétés et la mémoire des clairières conquises sur la forêt boréale. Sous le crépuscule, l'air s'alourdit d'une fraîcheur propre aux plateaux, enveloppant les habitations d'une quiétude qui semble durer depuis toujours.
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Explore Lac-Danford, Quebec, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 45.951944, -76.133611. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Lac-Danford includes the postal code (J8N), telephone area code (263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Lac-Danford is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |